Mission Accomplished

Longest summer ever--early start in California, late finish in the Netherlands--but yesterday was the official end of that lovely time and the start of a new adventure: Dutch school! Here are the boys on the doorstep, fresh faced, amused by Gideon's having sneezed for the first shot, ready to depart:

A ten minute bike ride later we have arrived:

The teachers were waiting at the door with a "spring into school" setup:

Having surmounted that barrier the boys went to their respective classrooms, Gideon with a group of kids his own age...

 Felix with all the other ages (there are only two classrooms total for "nieuwkomers"):

There they are in the bottom two rooms (this is about a third of the total facility):

And here we are, happy parents, having successfully negotiated yet another facet of the great Dutch bureaucracy:

Mission accomplished!