05.2010 Two weddings and a doctorate

As you may have read in the previous posts, May was the month of Dutch family celebrations. Cees-Jan's youngest brother got married the first weekend of May, his sister the last weekend, which then was followed by his brother's Ph.D defense! To just give a short impression of all the festivities here follow some pictures.

Here's CJ's brother Hans-Peter and his wife Lieke, who got married in Leiden. As an alternative honeymoon, they're moving to Singapore for H-P's new job soon!

A group of Japanese tourists thought it was a fun idea to get their faces in the wedding pictures too... the drawback of having your photos taken in a historic church!

Eva-Maria got married to her boyfriend Ivo in Den Bosch. Just before the vows Ivo went on his knee and proposed to her, as apparently he had never officially done that! Instead, he had told their friends he was getting married, so Eva-Maria had little choice than to go along with it when they starting congratulating her.

A little bit of cross-dressing during the evening party. Just the headwear though!

A more serious but no less exciting matter was Hans-Peter's PhD defense. He tackled all the questions from the opposition with great confidence, so they were left with no choice other than to give him the desired degree.

 Here is the young proud doctor posing with his certificate. For the interested, this was the title of his thesis: "PS-PIAT polymersomes for the immobilization of enzymes." I don't want to brag but I did actually recognize the last word.

That was it for all the family fun for now! But we'll be back in Holland momentarily as Joakim is coming over and we'll got to Holland for two weeks in July.