Bonjour, Brussels

We're in Belgium!

Our final travel day went fairly smoothly.  It was a loooooooong day, though.

We specifically scheduled a night-flight in hopes that the kids would sleep, but nowadays, planes have mini monitors in each headrest with a variety of movies and shows, so the boys both immediately discovered that they could view the Lego movie.  (Though Dandelions 2 & 4 were in a row with me and we had no audio. Not that that deterred #2 from watching!)  The kids needed to stay up for dinner service anyhow, but after dinner, we made them turn off the monitors and sleep.  They got about 4 hours, I think. I got maybe 3 and the Hubs got maybe 2.

When we landed in Brussels, it was 0730 local time, so our day was just beginning, sleep or no sleep.  

We have the most fabulous sponsors, so the husband and another co-worker met us outside customs, loaded their two cars with us and all our stuff, took us to our apartment that they helped us rent, that they had the keys for and that they'd stocked with food.

Once the kids and I were in place, our sponsor took Hubby back to the airport to pick up our rental car.  Then we took a walk and took naps.  In the afternoon, Hubs got picked up by our sponsor again to go see the "base" here.  Then they came back and got the kids and I to go have dinner at their house.  Our sponsor's wife prepared a dinner party and she wasn't even able to be there due to a family event out of the country.  Seriously, they rock!

Even though we were SO exhausted, it was fun to meet new friends and it was really, really helpful for the kids to play.  Our sponsors have two kids whose ages match two of ours, then the other co-worker who helped pick us up from the airport has two sweet kids and they came to dinner, also.  I asked Dandelion #1 tonight, "So what do you think of Belgium so far?"  He answered, "I don't like it much, but our new friend's are nice and going to their house was awesome!"  

We have days, weeks and months...maybe years (?!) of transition ahead of us, but God brought us here safely and He provided sweet sponsors to help ease the transition.  We are grateful!