Having visitors

This past weekend we had our first guests. Our friends Patty and Gerry were on their way back from Africa and stopped by Belgium for a few days. They took the train from where they were staying in Bruges and we spent the day together on Saturday. They were graced with typical Belgian weather. It was raining as we picked them up at the train station, still more rain on our walk down to the Grand Place (so they bought umbrellas), more light rain at the Grand Place and on the walk back to the car, then "steamy sun" for the rest of the day. By steamy sun I mean warm and humid. So if you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes. It will change!

One sight we took them to was Maniken Pis, which is a small but popular tourist attraction. It is a statue of a young boy peeing. You have to understand the quirky Beligian sense of humor to fathom why that is funny. Apparently I don’t have my arms around that yet!

















Another sight we saw in August, after first arriving was the flower carpet. It is a carpet that is made of flowers that covers the entire Grand Place in Brussels. They create this every other year and it is quite beautiful. Here’s a picture of one from a previous year. The Grand Place is quite the tourist attraction but the buildings are beautiful so I always think that it is worth going there for at least a few minutes during a visit.








After a bit of Brussels, we brought our friends back to our neighborhood to shop (Patty and Kathy bought clothes and Howard and Gerry bought wine) and took a long (too long?) walk at the La Hulpe Chateau and then back to our house for champagne and dinner. It was wonderful to see some California friends in our new home. It was a short visit and we didn’t cover much of what there is to see but we really enjoyed it. We look forward to more of you visiting! Here are a few pictures of the inside of the house, now that we have furniture!














Our bedroom /Ginger's bedroom














One guest room (we have two!).














Dining room