We had a blast watching the Holland vs Slovakia! And what awesome goals by Robben and Snijder!

We are all keeping our paws crossed for the Holland vs Brazil match.

Hup Holland Hup!

Wat a difference 4 years make.

The last World Cup, we were in Singapore.. and supporting Australia and Italy – Australia being my birth country and Italy, as S’s fave all time fave player came from there. And we would like to think that our support (you can even see me watching the italians vs germany match here) helped them to become the world cup champions! We sure know our winners!

Now that we are Dutch residents, needless to say, we are all for the ORANJE!

So.. Hup Holland HUP! You are the winning team! We are so proud to be wearing your colours!

So.. Come ON!!!

I thought that I’d give up hopes of ever competing in a agility event after our disastrous attempts to make it to classes. But we managed to stick it through this season with us missing only a few classes. And at the end of the season, the club sets up a club match where all of us gets to compete for fun… beginners vs beginners and such.

First we had a very funny team event, where the total time is of all of us competing in the same group is taken into account. Errrmm i didn’t do very well at all.. cos when i have to weave in between cones with tennis balls on them, i had the tendency to knock them over with my paws or my big butt! hahahah

Getting ready to start

Staying on the table.

The second event was the snooker event. I had make 3 jumps.. but it cannot be jumped consecutively. So, we chose to do the jump then tunnel, jump, tunnel and jump and broad jump.. etc.

We were all set to go.. and start off.. but was told to stop halfway, cos the stopwatch didn’t start on time. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise cos after my initial burst of enthusiasm, which always result in me not listening that well and running around alot, i was more settled and listened to the commands properly. This resulted in us doing a perfect course, with zero faults and at a very fast timing. We couldn’t be happier! We came in top for our group for the snooker event! *wags tail*

We didn’t have any pictures to show

We had to wait quite a long time for the last event..

S starting to get a bit nervous

It wasn’t the best and we were disqualified…. but hey.. it’s my first agility competition at a ripe old age of 8.5 yrs old and i’m pretty happy that i got to do it! And you know wat? The next match.. we’d do better!

But at least i didn’t do wat Mokka did!

Hahahahahah!

Hard to believe it but this boing boing fellow is 11!

We had a small celebration at home for the old fellow.

What’s a party without a party hat?

I must admit that he looks amazingly young..

And look at him go after the cake!

I got a small slice of cake too.. so.. i’m happy that it is Robin’s birthday. But what i am very unhappy about it that my tooth is dropping out.

See the tooth hanging out sideways?

Her’s another look at it.

The vet said that i shouldn’t worry too much about it. it will drop out on it’s own. Just have to make sure that my appetite is normal and i’m feeling ok.

Well.. how exciting is that?

Bet that it’s not as exciting as going to Paris and having a blast!

See.. Ad was here..

and she wanted to see Europe.. so S showed her The Netherlands..

With all the flowers..

and windmills!

Hope that she enjoyed her time here!

My encounters with horses has been few and in-between. Before coming to Netherlands, needless to say, I have not encounter a horse. But over here, it is a different matter. Little girls grow up wanting a pony.. wanting riding lessons and such. S is more than familiar with such as she grew up reading lots of Enid Blyton stories.

The Kampina is a beautiful reserve that is near our place that we regularly go to. Although we have seen lots of cows and horses poop around (FYI – they taste yummmy), we have never seen them around. We figured that they were really shy of us.

Imagine.. one day – on a very lovely spring day.. when H came home early and took us all out….and this was wat we saw..

All wild horses… naturally, we left them to their own business.. and went on with our walk.

Imagine to our surprise, when we went to the Kampina yesterday.. we saw them again. You have to know that the Kampina is giantic… you can walk and walk for hours and not see a single soul one..

We thought that like previously.. they’d leave us alone.. but noooooo!

One of them started walking towards us…

Insisted on being petted…

Decided that he really likes us..

And wanted to become one of our pack and follow us home.

He even called his friends to join us..

So now.. we have 6 horses at our house and they refuse to go back to the Kampina.

Does anyone want a horse?