I just got home from a nice weekend up North with my dad.
Today we had a family get together with his side of the family.
It's a side I don't see often or have not seen at all in some cases.
Mostly my dad's aunts, uncles and cousins.
The party was on a boat they rented.
It was a lot of fun.
When I think about it I don't see my own cousins that often.
So meeting my dad's version of those is pretty rare I guess (or maybe it's a Dutch thing) but meeting their children even more rare! (I had never seen them before).
Luckily I have improved my social skills over the years.
I can strike a conversation much more easily than when I was younger.
I ended up mostly talked with the children of my dad's cousins.
(I could not calculate what that made me in the family...maybe a second cousin?)
They were close to my age (28) and grew up in a village up north.
It was fun hearing their stories growing up in a small village.
The nice thing about the people up North is that they are in general more open and friendlier towards people they don't know.
Everything I go there I just feel calmer.
Like they are less stressed about things in general.
It's nice.
The boat ride was nice too.
In total the boat ride lasted 5 hours!
Which was pretty long in my opinion :)
But I did learn about a whole side of the family I didn't know excited.
Which was cool.
And who knows when I will see them again!
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