How do you recognize two Belgians you grew up with at
Kananga and who you have not seen in 54+ years? Well, when Andre-Jacque and
Willie Neusy walked into the Renaissance we both knew- and I had never met them
before. Ken and the two of them broke into smiles and we all hugged and did the
three kiss thing and started talking and did not stop for almost 4 hours! We
went to another restaurant on the square and had a delightful dinner. The guys kept naming people, naming N’Desha
homes and who lived in them and places in Kananga, recalling colleges and med
schools in the US, times at CS, “what was the girl’s name…” and the list goes
on as we ate supper!! The Hotel staff
was amazed we were together and were delighted to take our first picture- for
the guys-in 50+ years.
Thursday in Brussels:
We went to “our” patisserie for breakfast. Then we took a
cab down town to the Grand Place. Oh! 1000% Europe. This is the one that you will
recognize from pictures of Brussels where they make the center of the Grand Place
a carpet designed totally from flowers. We bought Belgian lace, ate some
chocolate, we walked around in shirt
sleeves for Ken and flip flops for me (well, clothes too!) and everyone else
was dressed with winter clothes on including boots, leggings, wool hats and
gloves!! They looked at us like we were nuts and I kept asking Ken what these
folks were going to do when winter really got here!
So we are leaving Brussels Friday AM. The patisserie lady is
opening early for just us 6:15AM instead of 7 so we can eat one more time with
them! ;)) Today she told us we must stop tipping while we are in Brussels. They
get salaries and don’t depend on tips like wait staff does in the US. So we
tipped anyway! ;) She just smiled and thanked us. Then she asked how we enjoyed
our supper at the café down the street with our Belgian gentlemen friends last night!
Wow! Said all of the cafés along the square have enjoyed watching us this week
and the fun we were having and that we smiled and spoke to everyone!!
A wonderful country and I highly recommend it! Again,
thanks, David, for getting us to stop over. It has been a treat.
Off to Possum Kingdom Lake /PK tomorrow! YEA!! My Pillow!!
;)
Love ya! Me
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