Adventure Time
Adventure Time, come on grab your friends. We'll go to very distant lands. With Catie the girl and Sky the boy, the fun will never end. It's ADVENTURE TIME!
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Took a delightful day-trip with my father-in-law and his wife! It was an absolutely delightful and full day: delicious Dutch lunch, cool breezes and warm sunshine, and a visit to an interactive science museum.
We made it to the farm! It’s really a horse place, but I haven’t had time to play pictures during the day yet when the horses are out. Here are some photos of our evenings drinking beer and walking among the neighbor’s cows.
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That’s a complicated question. We heard at least five different languages while we were there, but all the road signs are in French and Dutch (though they call it Flemish here). The city people mostly speak French, though Brussels is in the northern half of the country, which other than the city almost only speaks Flemish. The southern half almost only speaks French (and are called Walloons, go figure), and there are tiny pockets of German-speakers too. We’ll keep trying to post more pics, but we’ve moved out to the farm now, so it might be less often.
-Sky
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Well, sort of. It’s all a little bit different. The bread is waaay better, as is the beer, and the deli meats too actually. But it’s got fruits and vegetables and beauty products and stuff like normal. Another weird thing is the flavors of chips that they have… there’s none of my normal favorites, it’s stuff like ketchup flavored and steak flavor, real wacky stuff.
-Sky
Two pieces that were particularly poignant to us at the Magritte exhibit, given our current situation: “The Traveler” and “The Unexpected Answer.”
We went to the top of a parking deck to get a better view of the city. We could see all the attractions: atomium, Grand Place, churches, Baux Arts District, etc. The photos aren’t that great, though because a massive thunderstorm was rolling in and making the light particularly weird! Wonderful to see with the naked eye, though.
Silly Sky’s sore soles! We had a fabulous day toodling around. I am thrilled I got to see Magritte’s works with my own eyes today. I am more in awe now than ever before. The man had a sense of humor and skill for teasing out the playfulness between words and images.
