Arrival, happy family!

We landed in Brussels and were very happy to see Greg, all smiles from all of us!  He took us back to see the temp house, quite a place, so big it has its own guesthouse.   Lucky for us our real house is around the corner and some cleaners were working inside and they let us in to have a peek.

Kids in front of our new place!

The exciting news (for me) is the house has a grape vine in the backyard, hopefully the kids and I will be making jam again in late August!

 Do you like the knock-off McDonald's chain in the background?  

We found Katie a giant chocolate elephant!

We climbed to the top of the 50th Anniversary of Belgium arch which was built by King Leopold.  Great views of the city from the top!

The arch is right next to the Belgian Military Museum (so Dad you will have to come visit) 

The first tank from WWI.

The Red Baron's plane!

 We did learn that the August weeks of Europe really are when people take vacation- even the restaurant owners.  Our first night we walked forever to find a place that was open for dinner, finally we found a deli that was about to close!