After so much traveling, Thomas and I made a deal that we would spend our first weekend back in Brussels with no travel plans. It was a fantastic, lazy weekend. Here’s what we did…
Thomas made pancakes! He used a Barefoot Contessa mix and added a chocolate strawberry bar I got in Sweden. The first one was a dud but the others turned out okay. However, I’m starting to miss some of my nicer kitchen supplies that I left behind in storage. I’m not sure what I was thinking…
We met Baby Reagan! While we were out of town, Ali had a baby girl and we finally got to meet her. Other than looking a little tired (understandably), Ali and Shannon seem to be falling into parenting very naturally. I was very excited to hold Reagan – she was just so sweet!
Ali and her baby
Such a curious little thing
Dallas holding the baby
We biked 9 miles! Nine miles here really isn’t much, the ground is pretty flat, but I was excited to practice riding with traffic. Drivers seem to be very used to bikes here, but I would much rather prefer to stick to the sidewalks.
Dallas on her bike
We relaxed in the park! I love laying in the grass…napping, cloud watching, soaking up the sun. We took a break from our bike ride at Parc Cinquintinaire and rested in the grass. It was great encouragement to finish a picnic quilt before Summer is over.
Thomas laying in the grass
We napped on the back porch! We moved our little folding bed back out onto the porch for a breezy, shady nap time place and took a little afternoon snooze.
We cooked dinner together! Since neither of us is much of a cook, we like to pool what skills we have and cook together. I made pan-fried pangasius and Thomas made mashed potatoes and salad.
There’s a few more photos from Saturday posted on Flickr:
- Meeting Baby Reagan and Bike Riding (17 photos)
On Sunday, Thomas drove me and my sewing machine (on his motorcycle) over to Sarah’s house so we could work on our quilts for our online quilting bee, Sew Connected 3. I’m still working on sizing up everyone’s squares so they fit together, but at least I’ve got a vision. Hopefully I’ll have some photos soon.
How was your weekend?
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We spent Saturday in Limburg at the open air museum in Bokrijk and we had dinner in Hasselt. Then we visited CB’s sis on the way home in Lokeren. Yesterday we basically played on the computer all day and I skyped to my parents. Sounds like everyone had a lazy weekend. Although with Hemelvaart half of Belgium was closed on Saturday anyway.
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Sounds ideal, and you look very pretty I must say.
My weekend was *weak,* except that we have bolstered ourselves with many (too many?) viewings of the Total Eclipse video… we shared it with friends too!
sounds like an excellent weekend!
we did some chores on Sat and then on Sunday we went to Tennessee to do some virtual caches :)
We found some cool places :)
I noticed your burp clothes- those are the ones you made right?
aww, it looks like y’all had a lovely weekend of no traveling! you look like a pro holding that baby :)