We just went up to the Saturday market here in Dilbeek, with Frederic and the kids. We walked around the market and had a rice tart that was very similar to Finnish pancake. Then we walked up the rise to the city hall, which had beautiful and distinctive architecture and minaret-like towers. There was a lake with an island and geese and a park and a play structure, so we toured all of those.

We are in the Flemish part of Belgian so everyone here speaks Flemish (Dutch). Frederic is from France, so he speaks French to the kids, but Marjolein is from around here, so she speaks Flemish to the kids. They say it works well. Marjolein is on some kind of mission in Tunis, Tunisia, so we still haven't met her yet. She returns on the 18th.

The kids are cute. Borris, (4), was fishing in the pond for a "requin" (shark), and Nora, (2), was enthusiastically chasing after her brother, and going down wet slides, and falling over, and going pee in the bushes. We've been doing some babysitting, some household things, some garden/renovating type chores... Emma's been taking the lion's share of the cooking, I've been working on computers that are in California, nine timezones behind.