Good-Bye Belgium

Leaving Belgium was totally bitter-sweet. There are so many people there we have come to know and love and we will always feel at home there. In the last 2 or 3 weeks before we left, 5 new interns came in to work to replace us. It was surprising how sad we were that we wouldn't get to hang out with them very much! They are all so fun and the few times we were able to spend with them will always be some of our favorite. For our last day at work, our cute boss organized a party for us. We all went bowling in the center of Brussels and then went out to dinner. It made us feel so appreciated and we loved spending time with our office outside of work. This is the Obelis gang in the bowling alley - it wasn't mine or Kevin's best bowling day, but we still kicked butt.


This is us with Doram, one of our bosses and a killer bowler. It was so funny to be bowling in foreign country, it felt so strangely normal.


After bowling, we went to this delicious Greek restaurant. Everyone gave toasts and the management presented us each with a present - I felt like we were getting married all over again! Kevin got this really fancy Watermark pen and I got a beautiful handcrafted Swedish art bowl. Yay presents!


We also went to a rib place in town with some of our friends from the ward and from work. It was supposed to be the best rib place in town, but compared to all of the rib places in the States, it kind of fell short. It still was a cool restaurant with shelves of books like a library and this big cow out front. We asked a guy to take a picture of us in front of it and he kept saying "get closer! No, even closer!" I wanted to be like "just take the picture before I throw this cow at you!"


The hardest people to leave were the ward members, particularly the family we lived with for the last month we were there. The Passey's are amazing!! They have 5 great kids and we feel like they are an extended part of our family. We got so close to them and they were the hardest part of leaving! The night before we left we had a crepe party and took some fun pictures.