Easter Weekend

 (updating the site bit by bit...) For the Easter weekend, we went to the south of Belgium with Karen's family. We walked a lot and had several BBQ's. It was great! 

Bike from the second world war...

We had some great wines...

Easter Brunch

The Coo Waterfall

Going to be a model?

Visiting Annick y Marcos!

We visited a good friend of Karen in Ghent. She took us to an animal-park, which was really great! Here are some pics: 

 Two sisters with the two nephews.

Smiling Marcos! 

Making new friends

Boatride! 

Find the mouse...

Stella 1 year!

The cake! 

Finally, I can really sit on my princess-chair! 

Of all the presents, I prefer the balloon! 

I don't want to blow out the candle, I want to grab it!

A swimmingpool!! 

I love all the attention...

What would be in it?

        

Tired of a great day! 

Stella loves her bath!

Visit Marius, Paola & Charlie

On arrvial in Rovereto we were nicely welcomed with the local 'Champagne' called Ferrari by Richard & Kelsey and Marius, Paola and a sleeping Charlie. It was great that our stay overlapped one day with Richard and Kelsey's and were able to spend our first night together.

Last day Richard and Kelsey and a nice walk

On the train station in Rovereto Kelsey made a group picture just before they headed off to Munich...

After that we went for a nice walk in the mountains of Rovereto where Paola appeared to be a 'bikkel' in the truest sense of the word. That is to be more man than either Marius, me, Charlie or Karen by walking for about 1,5 hour up and down mountains carrying Charlie in her backpack.

An impression of the view during our walk

Lago di Garda & New Years Eve

The next day we went to the Lago di Garda where we planned to visit a very nice little romantic town, called Limone sul Garda, for lunch. Unfortunately, since we visited out of tourist season, all the restaurants were closed. So after walking through the village we moved to Riva del Garda instead and enjoyed our lunch, Italian pizza, there.

Karen and Paola enjoying a hug in the sun

Luckily there was a Christmas market in Limone...

Foods for good fortune... Lentils, since they represent coins and swell as they cook, are eaten in Italy at New Years Eve. Since we thought it was a good prospect for 2011 we decided to go along with this tradition. The lentils were accompanied with a great Italian sausage called Cotechino (correct me if I'm wrong), which contained enough fat to get us through the first month of 2011! Hopefully the promises of this meal are going to work out so we can properly weigh the lentils on a newly bought weighing scale next year instead of using this old school method with two wine glasses.

To accompany the lentils and sausage we had this nice magmum of local wine.

Which Karen seemed to like it a lot!