Big Chicken

Easter Monday 9 April

I forgot  to write a post yesterday, probably because I was having such a good time. Fact is that my daughter, Lot, had correctly judged that I badly needed some distraction. So she invited me to join her family (her husband Kai and our granddaughter Yasmin) for a visit to a safaripark. Gladly accepted.

The park is near the city of Tilburg, east of Breda, the family's hometown in the South of Holland. For me it was a stiff ride of an hour and a half, but I met them on the parking lot at noon sharp, as agreed. The weather didn't exactly favor our  visit, and when a steady drizzle had set in we hurried it up a bit. Animals don't  show themselves much in such conditions. Still, we saw four out of the big five: lions, rhinos, elephants and buffalo. And plenty of apes and monkeys. Plus an ostrich, dubbed a "Big Chicken" by Yasmin.

It was fun.

A little after five I was back visiting Lara at the hospital, where I ran into Andreina Steeghs. Lara was doing OK, but barely so. Her CRP (infammation marker) had come down from around 24 on Easter Sunday, to 16, so in the good direction. Her appetite was not great.