End of School Year Fun

As the school year winds down our lucky kids are getting to do lots of fun activities and make new friends.  We are hosting a summer intern who is a Senior at UNC. 

Charlie is delighted with his new buddy Will..

Kelly took a trip to England with her Lacrosse team.  She rode the ferry and reported that they stayed next to a Costco, which is a store we miss here in Europe! No photo to share as she is very stingy with her photos for those of us not on Instagram!

Katie got to join her class on a trip to the Loire Valley in France where they visited Versailles and other famous old chateaus.  She took almost no photos, so I had to use this one from the school.  Katie is in the bottom right. 

Charlie had field day at school which had an awesome obstacle course for the kids and did lots of other cool activities.  Very different from the 3 legged race I remember at field day!

Boys!

Greg and I got to enjoy some Brussels culture with a Whiskey and Spirits festival that was held at Autoworld.   We really liked talking to one guy who was representing his family Cognac business which has been run on the same farm in France for six generations.  He was doing his best to convince us to switch to Cognac!

They had bagpipers playing and the whiskey tasting was up on the upper level and you could look down on the car collection.

The current exhibit is Belgian race car drivers at Le Mons.

Without Charlie along to appreciate the race cars the only other thing that caught my eye was this old motor home, it was so cool!

It looked like the table dropped down into a sleeping bed, just like our old pop up camper!

Over the next few weeks the fun will continue for Charlie but it will be a bit stressful with exams for the girls before summer can begin for them!  We hope all of you got a nice start to summer over Memorial Day weekend...