Beautiful Belgium

For Daniel's Spring Break we went to Brussels, Belgium. We decided to go because Daniel finally said where he wanted to go in Europe (we were suppose to go there for our honeymoon, but that plan had to be scraped because of time). So here was our trip in pictures.
We saw a protest for Catalonia. They wanted to break away from Spain (the EU is in Brussels). Daniel "found himself" in their cause.

Manniken Pis. I don't know what his costume is suppose to celebrate.

Frites. They are not just Fries. They are the best tasting fries you will ever taste.

The Atonium. It is shaped as an Iron molecule for the world's fair.

It snowed while we were there! It was suppose to rain the entire time! I only had a raincoat so I was freezing.

Of course we had Belgium Wafles. They were especially good.

We went to Waterloo and climbed 220 steep stairs to see the whole battlefield where the "whole social-political map of Europe changed forever."

View from the top.

Of course there is Chocolate. We even stayed next to the Godiva Factory, but we didn't get to go in.

Here is the Grand Place. The Center of all the action. If you can find this place then you can find most all of the other sites in the city.

Valentine's Day and other thoughts

Valentines has come and gone. It usually isn't a big deal, but we decided to do a little something special. We came up with a special dinner. Daniel and I have never had much luck with Valentines day dinner. It usually ends up going to two restaurants and finally getting into the last restaurant starving to death, being onery and scarfing down food; barely talking to each other. Now we just stay in and make our own dinners, which is cheaper anyways. We made these awesome salmon kebabs with a shrimp appetizer.

We also have a funny tradition of Daniel making me cards and I usually buy some cheap cheesy card that somehow is perfect for Daniel. Daniel is getting really good at the cards. I don't know if you can see all the pictures,but he wrote four things that we could do for Valentine's Day. I know you can't read what any of them are, but one is listening to him prattle on about math, two is receiving flowers, three is making out, and four is watching Battlestar Galactica on the couch. Romantic Huh!

Daniel's BIG 2-7

Daniel turned 27 this year (on the 6th). I went nuts and bought him a lot of presents. Not very fun presents ie a trimmer and a replacement razors. He seemed happy, but he is always surprised because he doesn't remember his birthday a something special. The first year we celebrated his birthday I got a balloon bouquet and threw candy on his bed with a card. He was SHOCKED by that. I always ask him if he wants a party and he can't think of anything or anyone to invite. Once again this year we had a mini party with Juston, Mary, and Frankie, and I made ice cream pie. We tweaked the ice cream, so that it became a Oreo, Butterfinger ice cream pie. Oreo Butterfinger shakes are Daniel's favorite. This time we went out to a pizza joint that had some live music and we got to see Frankie get funk on. It was fun.

January blues

January is the worst month of the year. It usually is slow because there are no more parties. Everyone is poor from Christmas; the weather is blah (and even cold in Atlanta). To help with the January Blues; I remember my mother would always start a new project or hobby just to get through the month.
For New Years, we went over to a friend's house and played their Xbox. There was some classic singing from American Idol. When I sang, I was able to get the little bitty kids to dance with my smooth moves and way "talented" singing.

Then my parents came to visit (to get out of the inversion in SLC). We had a nice relaxed weekend and went to visit the Little White House in Warm Springs. This is where President Franklin D Roosevelt went to try to recover from Polio. It actually influenced most of his presidency, and helped him create all the programs for the New Deal. He opened a rehabilitation center there that is still in operation today.


Our biggest excitement was getting a bookcase. We sorely needed one. Dos, our cat, jumped on one of the shelves and it broke. We decided that we would go to Office Max to get really sturdy shelves (thank you Dad for the suggestion) and we bought three thinking that it would give us extra room to grow. Well, we put the shelves together and got our books together and they were stacked in piles and piles. Soon our bookcase was full except for one shelf. I put some pictures of us on the open shelf and it makes the shelves feel like ours. Daniel kept looking at the bookcases that day admiring them. He felt all grown up (I don't know if that is because he put the bookcases together or because he had that many books).

New Doctor; New Adventures

So, I should talk about Christmas and how great it was etc, but I worked every holiday at time and a half. I figure that was good enough and why not when I don't have kids, so let the other people who need it off should have it. Anyway I have been house bound since Saturday night feeling sick since I have partied nonstop since the beginning of December (some photos will come) and am exhausted. The best part of the new year is that they picked a new Doctor Who. Matt Smith, he is virtually a no name and the youngest Doctor ever, but I have seen him before (did I mention he has only ever been in seven things). Daniel hates this knack that I have to know every British actor on the scene right now so that I can play "Kevin Bacon" to any British or American film (seriously I can take it from American film and start raveling people down into obscure British film). Every time I see something new I scream where I've seen that person before. I am excited to see what this kid will do.