BACK IN BELGIUM

Hi to our friends in Mariners Village,

First of all: HAPPY BIRTHDAY SNJEZANA… I know I already called you today, but still want to say it again!

Yep... we arrived in Belgium yesterday...
I wrote you all an email about that trip!

Today we spend some time on "administration"...
Around 10 am we were already trying to get registered in the village where we live. They wrote down our address and told us the local police agent will come and check that we live in our house (and sleep in it). So we told them not to come before this Thursday, since our furniture that was in storage in Belgium, will only be moved this Thursday.
When he gives the green light, we're OK for our new identity cards. Without these cards it will be extremely difficult to get our insurance for the new car and the licence plate (because no insurance - no plate!).
Anyway, we think we already found our way out of that too... Lucky for us the subscription to our health insurance went very smoothly. No troubles whatsoever... uninsured time, both of us will be insured immediately. That was a big relieve, because others told us already it was so difficult to get this done. Can you imagine if you would get very sick and would have to pay everything out of the pocket…
After these two appointments we had lunch at Alain’s parents and went paint shopping. We want to repaint one of the walls in the living room and were picking colours. Tomorrow we’ll try them on the wall and choose between “olive green” and “terracotta red”.
Later this afternoon we went to our neighbours Rosette and Monty. We had a lot of catching up to do. We enjoyed a glass (and more) of white chardonnay and at 4pm we had to meet the tenants who were renting our house.
It was a joy to come back in our house, to smell the wood (because it is made totally out of wood) and see how well our tenants took care of it. Thank you Wim and Manja.
Around 7pm we came back at my parents and enjoyed a nice dinner.

Tomorrow will be another day of shopping and maybe starting with the painting…
Thursday the movers will come and by then Gaby (my German friend from LA) and her two kids will have arrived.
Gaby came to Germany to visit her father end of June and will stay till end of August, so she offered to come and help us a little bit with our move.

That’ll be all for today guys… talk to you soon! Love you.