Upgrade

...and since yesterday was so much fun, today we upgraded Kherington's pool:

Le Crueset

One of the best perks about living in Belgium is that we’re just an hour away from a Le Creuset outlet store! As many of you know Ryan collects baseball hats but since we’re here it doesn’t make much sense to keep collecting (the hats are downstairs in storage… the hat collecting will resume when we return) SO instead I’ve started collecting Le Creuset items! During sale months (July & January) we got an additional 30% off the already outlet price AND since we went the first weekend of sale month got an additional 10% off! I use the normal size pot all the item. Very very nice since it retains heat and our store is ‘energy efficient’ which means it turns on and off and on and off. It make boiling water or simmering stuff so much easier! We did give 8 of the mini pots away for the prize of our Dixon family banana (running race) so we are down to 4, but we plan on getting 8 more :)

Ommegang Dinner

Ryan’s boss was very generous and paid for us to attend a dinner and performance in downtown Brussels. The restaurant overlook the Grand Place (main square) where a 3 hours parade/show performed that included royalty from all over Belgium. In the ally below the restaurant we could watch the performers get ready. The coolest was all the people climbing up onto their stilts....it must take skill to walk around on really high stilts on cobblestone. To be honest the food was little ‘rich’ for my taste (I love Café Rio or Pei Wei kind of places), but it was fun to have a free night out.