Gravensteen

We went back to Gravensteen on friday and walked through the inside.  They had a room full of old armor and weapons and another room devoted to instruments of torture.

 The views were great from the top.

Caleb was asking to see "the dungeon" for the whole tour.  I think we finally found it at the end.

Ghent

When we were finally feeling rested, we went down to the center of Ghent to look around. We found the castle, het Gravensteen, but it was closed, so we couldn't go inside.

Belgium

We have arrived in Belgium and finally got over our jet lag.  We had to sleep for several days to get over it.

Does this picture of Caleb sleeping remind anyone else of the Sistine Chapel?

Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year.

Caleb got a new bike.

Emmylou got a cash register.

Sally got some M&M's. Okay, Sally got more than M&M's, but she was as excited about them as she was about anything else.

I got a new bike too!

And, we all got helmets. We also got a bike trailer and this cool attachment that turns a regular bike into a tandem bike, so we can all ride together.

Here I am pulling the girls in the bike trailer and looking supremely dorky.

And here are the boys.