Birthday and Resurrection Day!

Happy Belated Easter and Birthday! During the last weeks of April we have had the best weather! Dior and I have been taking full advantage of the sunshine and have been spending most of the days walking around town. We discovered a new coffee shop that makes yummy iced drinks so we usually head there in the morning before Dior has practice. While all of you Americans were paying your taxes we spent our April 15th celebrating our birthday! We went to see a movie for our birthday and the next night I had a girls night out!

Malu and I.

Jamie, Hailee and Malu :)

The night before Easter we spent time hanging out with the Tofi family. The Tofi family is from San Francisco so I’m very much looking forward to seeing them back home in our natural habitats! Easter Sunday Dior and I spent a relaxing day together with a good meal and movie night. However, Easter Monday is also a holiday in Belgium so we headed downtown for dinner with Dior’s teammate Cass and his girlfriend Hailee. We had the biggest sushi dinner imaginable!

Round 1 of the endless sushi!

Hailee and I look tiny.

Dior’s team is neck and neck with a team named Pepinster for the last spot in the playoffs. The anticipation is killing me! Interestingly, our last regular season game is against Pepinster so I’m hoping the playoff spot is decided before that final game. Before I forget, I would like to say that in America I had never been alcohol breathlyzed and in Belgium I’ve been breathlyzed SEVEN times. The drinking age in Belgium is 16 so perhaps that has something to do with all the testing. hmmmm.

Oh the Places We'll Go

After a whole season of waiting for their visit my parents arrived in Brussels! Dior and I couldn’t wait to take them everywhere and anywhere. Their visit was for two weeks so I pre-planned our trips to make the most of every day. My mom fell in love with Paris and surprisingly my dad loved Amsterdam!

The three of us flew to Milano and took a city tour that included a visit to the Last Supper by daVinci...

From Milano we took a train to Rome where we spent three days walking every inch of Rome.


Trevi Fountain



Vatican

We visited several cities in Belgium: Antwerp ( the diamond capitol), Brugges (the “Venice of the North), Charleroi and Brussels. Of course they spent a lot of time in Leuven (where we live) and said it was definitely one of their favorite cities.



Brussels

I loved all of the sightseeing but (so cheesy) more importantly I enjoyed spending quality time with my parents. We were only missing one thing... TURI!