Heading for the airport

in a few hours to pick up a visitor.
A good friend and fellow sighthound lover is coming over for a two week visit.
It will be fun showing her around, doing DC, Cape May, Gettysburg and all the other nice places we can visit here.
In a way I still feel like a tourist when we get in the car and drive around, so it should be no problem to find nice spots and sights to see.

Just wish it wouldn't rain today.
I mean, we needed the rain, bad! But why today?
Yesterday would have been perfect also?

A little list of things that I never had, had heard, done or had seen in the Netherlands

• 4 pair of shorts and still wondering if I should get another pair 
• (has to do with the first one) haven't worn jeans since May
• followed by tanned legs!
• ground hogs

• bald eagles
• squirrels racing through my garden
• flash flooding
• tornado warnings
• more than one snowstorm in a winter
• bear sightings in the neighborhood
• having a campfire on a cool fall evening
• turkey at Thanksgiving
• dressing up at halloween
• two lunch dates in a week
• going out for breakfast
• humming birds 

• above ground wires everywhere
• which leads to totally mutilated trees to prevent power outages
• personalized license plates

• a starting business
• always having your groceries bagged at the store
• a garden bigger than the house
• motor bikers not wearing a helmet
• so many people texting, calling and driving at once
• a church on every other corner
• with huge billboards on the roadside
• being called 'hun' or 'sweety'  by waitresses
• restaurants that don't have a liquor license
• separate shops for beer/soda's and wine/liquor
• cheese on my french fries
• free refills for soda

and many many more.

Life is different here and I do like it, can you tell?