Pictures weekend with our European-American visitors

Finally took the time to post some pictures from the weekend Gaby, Snjezana and Puska were here with the kids.
Saturday July 19 we went to Antwerp.
Hereunder a picture of a statue next to the Cathedral. One of the people in it is not part of it. He surprised our kids by changing position.
My tradition, lighting a candle for my uncle Dirk...

A view of the Market Place in Antwerp... look at those beautiful old houses. This is something I missed in America.

Hereunder "the 3 girls" at Het Steen, and old fortress next to the river "De Schelde".

Hereunder some pictures of the party our friends Kris and Nadine had for our coming back to Belgium. They did everything in "old Flemish style". We had a choice of very old and forgotten games. Especially our European-American friends loved those. For food we had: witte/zwarte pens (white and black sausages), kriekjes met ballekes (cherries in sauce with meatballs), plattekaasboterham met radijs (bread with sour cream and radishes) and for desert rice cream and a very big cake.

Kris was our man on the bbq.

Our friends also surprised us with a powerpoint presentation about our stay in US and our coming back to Europe. Later I translated for our American friends, because it was all in Dutch of course. We got big towels around our neck, because my Belgian friends know how sensitive I am. Lucky it was not something that made me cry... but laugh.

Grietje was serving us the cocktails they made us... all the way through the presentation. And best of all, we got to keep the bottles. YES...

They all pitched in for a gift certificate for a day at the sauna. Rosette and Monty, our neighbours, had a special surprise: a big box stuffed with things you need on a daily basis (like soap, coffee, toilet paper... and so on.

Time for cake...

And when everybody was gone, we started the afterparty after the cleaning up.

It even got Sabrina and Gaby dancing...

Since it was not a day with a warm evening, the Big Bear sweater came in very handy Tamzen and Jeff.

One last pictures of the girls before we said goodbye to Gaby and kids

Goodbye Gaby, see you in Germany.

In the afternoon we went to the Atomium in Brussels with Snjezana and Puska. This is what it looks like outside and inside.

The two ladies could not resist a Brussels Waffle (nothing like the fake ones you find in the States)... Yummie...

This visit made it possible to have a look at Brussels. The weather was so bad that day that we did not feel like going for a walk there.

Tuesday it was very hard to say goodbye to our Croatian friends... but we'll see eachother again (no doubt about that).