Weekend in Belgium

This past weekend we fly into Brussels and spent the weekend with Darren and Krystin Schambach and their two children. Broderick of course loved having a little boy who spoke English to play with and we loved hanging out with fellow Americans and friends/family. They live about a half hour from Brussels. We are so sad because they will be moving back to the US in a couple of months.

We got their friday night and then took the train to the town of Brugge, Belgium. It was a really quaint, old beautiful city. Then we had great Mexican food Saturday night - something we don't have in Denmark (we need to find a Jose, Krystin). On Sunday we went to church with them and then headed to Brussels for the afternoon. It was a great time.













Different pics
of Brussels!

















Brugge






Madonna and Child
by Michelangelo









An old bridge over a
canal in Brugge





It was really
a beautiful city.







Markt, the town
square in Brugge.




Brad and Broderick hanging out at the airport. Broderick kept announcing, "Airplane Ready!" in hopes that meant we got to get on the plane.
Broderick and Tobin wasted no time and started playin together instantly.
On the train to Brugge.
Tobin and Broderick loved looking out the window of the train.
Darren, Krystin and Castalie
Markt, the old town square in Brugge.
Enjoying lunch in Brugge.
Darren and Krystin in Brugge.
Darren, Krystin, Tobin and Castalie
All of us, we were trying to get Broderick to take a nap. He was SO overtired. He was up a lot the previous night.
Along a canal in Brugge
Krystin and Megan hanging out in Brugge, it was really beautiful.
They were doing construction near one of the churches we visited. Brad saw concrete pipe and of course had to check it out!!!
Eating frites. We were told that french fries originated from Belgium. They have stands set up selling frites and they double fry them. Then the have a ton of different sauces you can choose from.
The town square in Brugge again.
Broderick and Tobin playing dinosaurs.
Tobin hanging out at home.
Playing together on the stairs.
Darren, Krystin and family in front of their house.
Grote Markt, the square in the old town center of Brussels
Grote Markt
In front of the Mannequin Pis
The Mannequin Pis - a very well known statue in Brussels. It was so small in person. I was kind of surprised. I guess he is often dressed up in various customes.
Eating Belgium Waffles. OK, these were my favorite Belgium specialty. They were so good.
Broderick thought so too.
In front of a chocolate shop in Brussels. This chocolatier was once considered the best in the world. Yum!
Tobin and Broderick thought this care was pretty neat. It was in front of a restaurant we ate at near Darren and Krystin's house.

We had a great time with them and so glad we got to see them before they move back. In a couple weeks we are going to visit friends of ours from Italy who are living pretty close to us in Germany and that will be the end of our traveling pre-baby. They say no flying in the last month, which is ok with me since I'm sure I would be quite uncomfortable. We're trying to take advantage of traveling with one kid though since I'm sure it will complicate things a little to throw #2 in the mix. Broderick has been a trooper, but requests Amsterdam everytime we go somewhere - not sure why.

I had to give a small speech in Danish this week for my language class. It went better than expected. The speech wasn't the bad part because I was able to practice that, but after the speech they were supposed to ask me questions. Eeek! That's when it gets tough. We're celebrating Valentines tonight because we couldn't get a babysitter this weekend. They do celebrate it over here, but its not a big holiday. So we're trying out the "nicest" restaurant in Aalborg. We'll see if it lives up to its reputation.