speaking of which, how far away from holland are you? and are your children in school? it seems as though you lucky people over there do a lot of traveling. americans have to plan their vacations around their children's school schedules and summer vacations. also, this country is so large, that from the east coast to west coast is probably farther than, what, the far end of germany, maybe chekoslovakia (oh, boy! spelling!)? it's hard to judge.
we are about 3,000 miles, coast to coast. i don't know how that relates.