Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Thanksgiving

Maria looks her age of 17 in this pic...but looks like she is about 10 in the picture below!


My mom is visiting and got to see Maria dance the ballet in Oklahoma!


Here in Belgium, the Thanksgiving holiday is not celebrated. It makes sense that this country would not want to celebrate a time when the Pilgrims fled the continent to find a better life in America! The kids have school and Bob has to work. On the up side, there also aren't any "Black Friday" or "After Thanksgiving Day" sales. We will have turkey on Thursday evening anyway after my mom (who is visiting) and I take a guided tour of the Fine Arts Museum in Brussels. Mom has been here since last Friday and will go home again on Dec. 2. We have shown her all there is to see in Brussels and the surrounding areas. Then on Friday, we will take the train to Paris and spend 2 days taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame! It seems odd to say that I will just take the train to Paris, but that is the life I am living now. Ooh la la!

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