Suprise!! (Part1)

We're in Morocco!

Its a realy long story to explain everything but it is realy true! This message is writen in "Ain Leuh" a little mountain village in the north of Morocco. Denise are here becouse my parents have their house here and we're visiting them and my morrocan brothers and sisters.

Wedding of my sister.

The reason why we are in Morocco is the wedding of my younger sister Corine with the man of her dreams "Taoufik" (you can see them on the picture above) They got married in the little city Essouira on the coast of Morocco. The city where Taoufik grew up and lives and works together with his family. The wedding was totaly in traditional Morrocan style with Arabic music en everybody especialy the woman and bride and groom were dressed in traditional Morrocan colthes. It was a very beautiful and happy wedding where everybody realy celebrated abundently and we even danced! all together on the Morrocan rithems. It was realy a very special wedding and ofcourse the most important thing is that my sister was very beautiful in her 5 diferent weddingdresses and that she and my new brother in law were extremely happy and had the day of their lives! Denise and I realy shouldn't have missed out on this, we had to be there!

First time the whole family complete!
Many of you must know by now that my family is a bit complicated. First of all my parents don't live in the Netherlands but in Morocco. Then as the seccond reason: My parents have 13 children of whom only 4 are biological, one is a foster child and after that they adopted 8 Morrocan children. Knowing these facts you might understand that it in my family it is not that easy that we would all eat together every evening around the same table. Its even that complicated that until now we never managed it to get all the children and parents in the same place at the same time. Now on the wedding this would happen for the first time becouse everybody would come to Morroco. Everybody would be there! Everybody except for Wouter and Denise becouse they are way down in Brazil and they realy dont have the possibility to fly all the way to the other side of the ocean. But we had to be there! Otherwise it might happen that our family would never ever would be totaly complete!

But how did we manage to get to Morocco then?
Once in a conversation on Skype with my great friend Ben whom I already named a few times on this weblog. I mentioned that i would realy love to and actualy realy had to go to the wedding of my Sister in Morocco. But i already didn't have much faith that this would ever be possible! It was just way to dificult... As a reaction to this conversation Ben wrote an email to a Dutch TV program named "Top Secret" Asking them if they couldn't help me to go to my sisters wedding? With the result that the program thought it might be a realy interesting story and they wanted to film it! But then it all had to stay Top Secret that we would be going to Morocco. Therefor nobody of you could know or knew about out trip jet and it is a huge surprise to you all.

But for you guys the suprise wasn't even that big as it was for my parents and Sister! They realy believed that it absolutely impossible for Denise and me to go to the wedding and ofcourse they thought that we were in Brazil. But then suddenly I showed up right in front of them with a camera crew filming this moment of family reunion. You should have seen their faces! Which you will still be able to see since it was all filmed and in a few months it will be shown on dutch television. I will keep you all updated about when this will be and on wich channel. Also i will upload many pictures to this weblog so you can all live the story!

In two days we fly back to Rio de Janeiro. Where we expect to arrive on the 15th in the morning. Quickly after that i will start writing and transalating all storys that we lived in the last two weeks wich are many and their are still more suprsises that you dont want to mis! So thay tuned!