The men from Chez V survived camping in 18 degree weather and commemorated the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge with a memorial walk across the ground where 70,000 American lives lost their lives defending Belgium against a final attack by the Germans during World War II.

E-Grrrl and I had a really busy weekend together, shopping for birthday gifts for our Belgian cousins and a Christmas gift for her brother, baking cookies for her class cookie exchange, and putting finishing touches on the papier mache pinata I've been working on all week (also for her party).

And now I'm off to Antwerp to visit Di and go wandering together with Gert, Jess, and the Wee Curly Grrrl.

It's very cold but the sun is shining and I'm HAPPY. Really happy.

Hope you are too.

December 16, 2007