Well boys have settled in now, and I think their body clocks have now reached Belgium time as they are much more settled. We have done a few things this week, first being the Sports Carnavel on Sunday, it was pretty much a fair with all sorts of activities for kids, like bouncy castle, bike riding, climbing, trampolining etc etc, so Joe Joe had an awesome time there as you could imagine! We went shopping on Monday, and I spent too much money as I do when I go shopping so the last few days I have had to be good [View Full Entry]

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Hey all! The past couple weeks have been crazy! I've traveled around Europe a little bit. This past weekend I went to Belgium on Saturday... ate the most fabulous waffles and chocolate of my life. Walked around the gorgeous town, full of people and open markets. Then we ventured to Amsterdam on Sunday, the 22nd, and visited the Anne Frank museum which was a must. On Monday we went to the Van Gogh Museum and walked around the city. It is full of canals... more than Venice, who would've known. We had amazing weather and a long, long, long journey. Tuesday [View Full Entry]

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Hey All, We are here in Brussles, it is our first day here, we woke up late and had to be out of the hostel by 11 so we jumped out of bed and went on a two hour walking tour of Brussels. We saw many different parts of the city from the impoverished parts to the neuveau rich. It's really cool here, there are sky scrapers and old old brick small homes. We have been eating their famous french fries and drinking great BEER!!!!!!! We saw the funniest band that played at out hostel last night, words don't even beging [View Full Entry]

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Hi! Kate here! Well, to ease everyone's mind, the three of us are together! The boys got to our hotel in London around 11:15 AM yesterday. We hung out with my mom for about 45 minutes while they got cleaned up (boy did they smell like sweat! Haha!) and then we said bye to her! We found our hostel in London without much trouble and ate some pizza. Then we headed into the main part of London (Westminster, actually), and rode the London Eye which was pretty cool, had some great views. Then we went to a pub and had some [View Full Entry]

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I want to warn all of you that there is a force invading Belgium. It's not the French under Napoleon and it's not the Germans. It's H&M department stores. They are EVERYWHERE!! I have seen 4 in Brussels alone. On my walk from the train station to the Markt in Bruges I saw 2 on the same street. And this weekend, I saw one in Ghent and two in Waterloo. I just can't believe it. Ok, now that I have that off my chest I can move on. This was another great week in Brussels. I can't really complain about much [View Full Entry]

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Hey everybody, Well the flight over was not as bad as I expected, the kids were really good, a wee bit tired but other than that they were good! However the 8 hour stop over in Hong Kong was a bit much for Joe and he just wanted to run wild! We finally got here after travelling 30 hours straight, Marlon (James' coach) had all his family turn up at the airport with about 5 cars to take everybody and the luggage, which was very nice of them! The town that we are staying in is very cute, and the buildings [View Full Entry]

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On train from Frankfurt to Brussels (I think..). The platforms for the train to Brussels were rather awkward so there is a good chance that I am headed to Amsterdam at the moment, but I’ll worry about that when the time comes haha. I’m pretty sure I was where I was supposed to be. This layover in Frankfurt went MUCH better than the last nightmare here..haha (I’m still ticklish, and not a security threat, no matter what the Germans say). Anyways, I ended up meeting this girl from Alberta who was on an “around the world” tour by herself for 8 [View Full Entry]

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Well, today I got my test back. I didn't do amazing, but I didn't fail. I got above average in the class so no complaints here. We also got a new teacher for class. I didn't realize that I would have to deal with 2 professors from the University of Florida. Anyway, this one isn't too bad. I'll get over it. On Thursday night, my host sister, Dadou, her sister's boyfriend, Mike, and I went to Delirium. It's a world famous bar here in Brussels. They offer 2,004 beers. There is a giant book that lists all the beers. We chose [View Full Entry]

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Bonjour tout le monde! Mon sejour a Bruxelles tire deja a sa fin: je quitte demain direction Anvers. J'ai beaucoup marche dans les derniers jours! Je me suis assez bien adaptee au decalage horaire malgre que je dorme encore beaucoup (11-12 heures), mais je n'ai pas besoin de faire de sieste. Tout d'abord, parlons bouffe. Il est facile ici de se trouver un petit kiosque sur le bord de la rue qui vend des gaufres. Elles sont servies chaudes, dans une serviette de table: elles sont delicieuses! Sinon, la Belgique est reputee pour ses frites qui sont aussi, excellentes. On nous [View Full Entry]

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Sunday 8th June - Monday 9th June We arrived in Belgium about 4pm, we were about an hour late as there was an accident further ahead which meant we were rerouted to another station. This caused us a few issues in getting to our hotel. Once we were settled in we went into the tourist area and ha a look around. Here we got to see Grand Place, Marquis Pis (a small statue of a boy urinating, one wonders why it is so famous,) and the Brussels Cathedral. You can see most of the sights in a couple of hours so [View Full Entry]

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