What we have been doing lately

Last Wednesday, Gaby and her kids arrived after a very long drive. They got lost and had to ask for directions several times. Let's say that she did a lot of sightseeing... (lol).
Thursday morning at 7am the movers started loading the truck at Alain's parents and also went to pick up at my parents. They were done around 2.30, we were not of course.
Gaby helped me a lot to unpack everything, Rosette provided us all with a nice breakfast, Francoise (another neighbour) also joined us to help cleaning things... Monty was helping Alain to put furniture together.
By the time the day was over, we were very glad to be able to sit down and eat one of the many dinners my mom made lately for us.
The next day again another day of working hard and running errands because that evening Snjezana and Puska came here with Nina.
They arrived only around midnight... Next day we started with a nice breakfast and we went to visit Antwerp with them. Of course the rain tried to spoil our afternoon, but we had a blast running from shop to shop.
Snjezana prepared a nice meal and we had a very lovely evening...
Sunday was the "big" day, because our friends Kris and Nadine were having our welcome back to Belgium party. I did some shopping in the morning with Snjezana and at 2.30 we arrived at the party. It was so nice to see all our Belgian friends again and to present them to our LA friends. Everybody understood better why we loved it so much in LA once they met our dear friends.
Now they not only have our house to come to, but also a lot of places to stay if they would decide to come to Belgium once again.
Monday morning Gaby left with the kids, back to Germany... It was a sad goodbye, but maybe we'll visit her in Germany before she goes back to LA end of August.
Our other friends were into more sightseeing and so we went to the Atomium with them. This building was made for the world exposition of 1958 and is very special. Since it was our national holiday that day, it was very bad weather (it is almost every year like that). We dropped the plan of visiting the center of Brussels because of that and decided to have a nice afternoon at home.
Tuesday came way too quick and so we had to say goodbye again. As Snjezana put it: We are blessed to know eachother.
Wednesday and Thursday were days of painting outside for me, while Alain was already working and Axelle had playdates...

So much for this little update... the pictures and the rest will follow later.