South African Friends and Our first visitor from Wakefield, MA!

Kelly was back from her trip to the Coast Guard Academy to attend AIM.  She then did a two week internship at BP.  Her friend from school also had an internship near her and the first day they came home together, I loved that they were almost in identical dresses!



Our friends from our South Africa days were in Europe so they came through Brussels.  Charlie was happy to have a friend his exact age.  Our friends now stay in Costa Rica so it was fun to hear about their new life by the beach.  Together we visited the Royal Palace fun to see it again!

 Banquet table all set for a feast!

Charlie and his pals, love the chandeliers!

This was in the mirror room that later had the green beetle ceiling added!

Outside the palace!

 

Charlie finally got to go paddle boating at the place down the street from us, he has been begging all summer!

 
Our little visiting princess even convinced Kelly to turn back into a princess for a quick show! Very entertaining!

Kelly & Greg headed for Dunkirk one afternoon...the rest of us sat it out...

Airport farewell-Katie went off to France to stay with a family in Bordeaux, many years ago we hosted their daughter Amelie in Boston. 

Katie raved about her seafood dinner!

We loved hearing about Katie's trip and all the wonderful food she tried in Bordeaux and all about where she visited. She worked on her French a bit too!  We hope that one day we can all go visit them too!

We had very exciting visitors come for dinner, Kelly's Galvin Middle School French teacher, Rosanne Bakos, and her husband Bill.  They had been in Europe and delighted us with a visit to see our house and hear about our adventures.  Kelly didn't stop smiling the entire night!  We also realized that they were our first visitors from Wakefield and we loved getting the updates on some of our old friends from town.

A very appropriate picture of a inspirational French teacher and a former student!

We continue to amaze our visitors with how cool Brussels is and we are so lucky to have so many people come our direction!!