Welcome to the Vellekoop family photo gallery/video home page. This page is a portal to the many pictures taken through the years of the family of our daughter Becky and son-in-law Nate on there visits to California. It is always amazing to see the growth over time both in numbers as well as age.
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The Vellekoop's arrived in stages some on 6-1-2022 and the rest on 6-23-22. They returned on on 8-25-22. The trip activites are shown on 2 videos, Part 1 and Part 2. Videos chronicle trips to the Oakland zoo, Santa cruz, Old town Columbia, Redwood Chapel VBS finale and more. |
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This visit began in an unusual fashion as, the Vellekoops arrived Sunday May 2,morning for a surprise visit, at least for me. They returned home on 8-11-21. Some of the activities on this visit included, of course, a trip to the zoo, Happy Hollow park in San Jose, a trampoline park in Dublin, a day at the beach and more. Enjoy this video! |
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The Vellekoop's arrived 11-20-20 for a 5 week stay departing to go back home on 12-28-20. Most of the visit obviously was centered around Christmas activities however we did have time to take trips to the Oakland Zoo and a fun day @ Boomers in Livermore. enjoy this ~14 minute video. |
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The Vellekoop's arrived 11-21-18 for a 20 week stay, departing to go back home on April 10, 2019. During the visit we all took a trip to Florida to visit "Mama" Dot and Avery McCarthy. Other activities included a trip to Pacific Grove. |
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Vellekoop 2017-18 visit part 1 The Vellekoop family arrived in stages late November of 2017 and stayed till April 5th 2018. This is part 1 of a 2 part video/slideshow of their time with us. Enjoy |
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Vellekoop 2017-18 Part 2 |
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This gallery is a collection of memories from the Vellekoop family visit of Dec 8,2015- April 7, 2016. Enjoy! |
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This gallery contains pictures from the Vellekoop family visit (Feb 26-April 8, 2015. This was Matthew's first trip to California. |
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This is a video of the Vellekoop visit Feb-April of 2014. This visit was Sara's first trip to California. Enjoy! |
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This gallery contains photos from Gioia's first vivit to California in Dec of 2012. The family was here for Christmas before returning back to Holland on Jan 14th 2013. Enjoy the memories. |