Larry's visit redux

My brother Larry visited us for a week, effectively from Sunday April 12th through Saturday the 18th. The second half of his trip, to the Netherlands, was already chronicled in the previous post. During the first half, in Belgium, Larry's visit coincided with a visit by Jenee's friend Cristin, and they ended up doing some wandering around together, sometimes just them, sometimes also Jenee, and sometimes also Jenee and the girls. If memory serves, Larry went to the Atomium, Grand Place, and the Neuhaus chocolate outlet in Brussels, and also a bit of Bruges and Ghent. (Apparently all of our visitors visit Bruges. Me, I haven't been there yet, either during my 1-week visit to Belgium last September, or thus far during the 3½ months into our current visit.) Larry also did some jogging around Brussels, but did not achieve his objective of having moules (mussels), one of Belgium's signature foods. It was good fun having Larry here.

We are now in our busy season. We had a week's vacation in France just before Larry came, as our intrepid blog followers know. Then shortly after Larry left, Naomi's parents, Mark and Joan, arrived. They will be spending a few days in England this week, but otherwise will be with or near us during their 2-week European holiday. Shortly after they leave, my friend Mike will be coming for a long weekend. Mike is our last scheduled visitor, but we'll be spending a week in Israel shortly after Mike's visit is over, and then we have our final two weeks in Belgium before returning to the States. It's actually sort of insane!