Mise à Jour

After the longest silence in the history of our blog, we're back!!! To what can we attribute this unusually long period of blog blackout, you ask? You might call it 'Life to the full'.

Since my last post:

My sister visited for a week!

At the annual Belgian Beer Fest on the Grand Place


At Pierre Marcolini, the chic-est chocolatier in Belgium


At the Wednesday Châtelain Market

The last few days of Blythe's visit, Troy's brother passed through town too.


Todd, Troy, and Blythe at the Abbaye de la Cambre

Troy and I picnicked on the grounds of a chateau, visited a trappist brewery, and toured a castle at night.

Chateau La Hulpe


Awww...aren't we sweet? (tee hee)


At the Orval Brewery, in the distribution room


Orval is an active Cistercian monastery, thus giving the brewery its rare trappist designation


A blurry sunset shot of Simone, Stephanie, and Rick at the castle


The courtyard of Gaasbeek Castle by night

I sang in a cabaret show with my choir, celebrating the organization's 30th Anniversary.


(photo: M. Lamote)


Singing a little Patsy Cline with Akim and Alan on guitar and ukulele (photo: E. Hertel)

We spent a week in Spain -- first to Granada to see the Alhambra, then on to Sevilla for our friends' wedding!

Paloma and Marc, the blissful newlyweds, outside the Iglesia Buen Suceso


The party went all night at the Real Club Pineda de Sevilla


Simone and Paloma

I (along with my friends Ali and Jeanette) threw a baby shower for my friend Maisie...who just delivered her sweet little Isaac two days ago!!!!


At the shower in September


The Chaffin Family at the hospital yesterday!

Whew! In six weeks, we've had a little bit of everything—so much happiness, fun, and friendship, all of which undoubtedly deserves its own post. However, given my past clever (read: failed) attempts to outline how and what I will blog about in the future, I'm not making any predictions this time. Instead, we'll leave it with à la prochaine...