The Family moves in....

The kids and I arrived in Belgium on Jan 21st. The flight was long but fairly uneventful. The kids and the dogs did great. We had to fly from Dallas to Frankfurt and then from there on to Brussels. In total the trip was about 15 hours. In case you don't know - Lufthansa is now our new favorite airline. They are fantastic with Pets and the service in Coach was good. Free drinks to boot.

The taxi ride from the airport to home was a bit of a challenge - but everything worked out well. When we got to the house we all had some work to do - putting together beds so we all had a place to sleep. The dogs started to work off their doggie jet lag straight away!!!


There is lots to get everyone used to here. Driving is a bit strange - the shops (Stores) are all a bit different and most people speak French where we live. I've been doing a bit of exploring every day and am getting more comfortable getting around and getting things done.

Alex and Austin started at there new school on Monday. That seems to be going very well. Rick and I think the school is going to be a great experience for them. The school only has ~1500 kids but they come from 70 different countries. The campus is amazing, tucked on a hill in "The Forest" just south of Brussels. You can check it out at www.isb.be. Each was issued a Dell Tablet PC and both have to take French. Austin got his new Sax this weekend and has already started in band. So far so good.

The kids are keeping connected with their friends from Round Rock. Austin plays X-Box Live with Duke and Alex is talking to Hanna and others using Skype. (The Skype services is working really well for us)...

Last weekend we took a little sight seeing trip to the city (Commune) of Waterloo. We visited the famous battle field (Butte de Lion) and memorial where Napoleon was defeated. You can see some cool info here;Butte_du_Lion. We had to climb some 220 steps to get to the top of the Butte and it was really cold that day. We took some time to drive around a bit to get a better feeling for the area. Here are some Photos from that visit.



We also took the kids to see the SMART Car vending machine in Overjise. Check out that photo



This weekend we went to the city of Charleroi to check out options for Rick to get some flying in while we are in Europe. We checked out the Belgium Flight School. You can check them out here:BFS ...

That's it for now. We have to go Record the Super Bowl because it does not start here until Mid-Night......

More to come soon. Bye for now