i went to the opera!

aunties and unko bens have season tickets to the opera. we went to see la bohem a couple weeks ago. i was the toast of the opera! a lady even wanted to hold me. she thought i was a girl though. the opera was very good and the dresses were pretty. i like the pretty singing allso.

goodbye belgums!

goodbye giant smurf. goodbye cheese. goodbye dutch and french talking people. goodbye bog. goodbye chocolate. goodbye pedifiles. goodbye james ensor. goodbye toy store. i will see you again someday.

look at all the smurfs!

we went to a comic museum in brussels. thats where the comic strip was born. there was allot of tin tin. and stuff in dutch or french. but they allso had smurfs. belgums is where smurfs are from.

thats a real life smurf house!

this fontain is famos

this is the most famos thing in brussels. a little boy peeing fontain. you can buy allot of things with the little pee boy on them. like thimbles, postcards, mugs, shot glasses, t-shirts, hats, bottle openers, cookies. allot of things.

check me out!

this is the new outfit i got. i am pretty adorable! i got to hang out on the train steps a little bit before we went to brussels. i was people watching. a lady brought a dog on the train. it sounded like it was barking in english.

we took another train!

this is the second train i was telling you about earlier. we took it from antwerp or antwerpen to brussels.

i love this store!

this is a toy store in antwerp. for some reason they call it antwerpen in belgums. oh well. this is the store where i got shows the last time we were here. this time i got a whole outfit! i got cordry pants and a shirt with towel sleeves. unko bens got a new haas and vos book.

i'm helping!

we ran out of clean underwear and socks and had to do laundry at a laundrymat. i folded my own clothes.

look at my fancy bloody church!

my blood church is actually quite pretty. i don't know what the belgums have against me. they think i'm a pig. they have my little ghost street. and they have my blood church. at least i am famos here.

oh no they didn't!!!

this sign says "church of the holy blood" i am scared.

thats my treat!

we went to a hot chocolate place that was above a chocolate shop. i got chocolates and my own pot of hot chocolate. did you know you are supposed to make hot chocolate in a pot and then smoosh it around with a stick to make it frothy? my hot chocolate was frothy!

thats my small spirit street!

this sign says "small holy spirit street" in dutch. that means its a little street about my spirit. i think this is where i will haunt when i am a ghost.

this is that festival i was just telling you about

nope, its the north sea!

this is the north sea. we went here in oostend which is where the james ensor crazy house is. they were having a halloween festival and i saw allot of kids wearing costumes and getting candy.

is that the ocean?

meet james ensor!

james ensor is belgums famos painter. this used to be his house before he died. it is crazy inside. he had a fish with a little human head! he had lots of paintings of skellingtons! he had a fake lady sitting at the table! he lived with his mom and went crazy. but he was a famos painter. you should look him up on the internets. especially if you like pitures of skellingtons or people spitting and peeing on other people.

thats ghent!

this is the view of ghent from our hotel room. that is not a river it is a canal. i don't know the difference though. this town is very pretty. aunties says it is like amsterdam without the scary parts or outdoor urinals.

thats my bed!

we drove up to the netherlands to visit aunties and unko bens friends. they are named danielle and jan. they have a special bed for me. if you pay attention to my blog, you will remember i slept in it two years ago on our trip to the netherlands. this book is just my size allso.

thats my ice cream!

after going to the bog we stopped for lunch on our way to the next town. the waiter gave me free ice cream! i am a big hit in belgums!

i'm a lumberjack and i'm ok......

i am pretending that i chopped all these trees down. notice i am wearing my flannel shirt that my gramma made for me.

thats my forest!

thats a bog!

we went to a big park called a bog. i think that is dutch or french for a big park with tall trees. it was very pretty and a little spooky. the trees were super tall.

i got my own bed!

in liege i had my own bed at the hotel. but the hotel smelled like an ashtray. its a good thing we were only here one night or i would prolly have lung cancer. plus liege is kind of scary.

this is liege. we did not walk up those steps!

i rode that train!

we got to ride a train in belgums. actually more than one but this one was first. we rode it to some caves and then went through the caves with a bunch of french and dutch people. i don't know what they were saying but the guy who took us in the caves asked if i was a pig! A PIG! i am not a pig! i guess they don't have many haf dogs haf humans in belgums.

oh my goodness!

they really really, i mean REALLY love cheese in belgums. this was on our breakfast table one day! there were so many cheeses. plus we had eggies and toast and crossants and tea and coffee and fruit and juice and sliced cheese and yogurt. aunties was loving the cheese allso.

unko bens was a hero!

on our plane to belgums unko bens saved a man's life or something and the airplane waitress gave him a bottle of champane. we busted it out one night at the hotel while eating egg salad sanwiches and watching tv not in english. i got to have a little glass of champane because thats what kids drink in belgum.

stranger danger!

we saw lots of these signs. i think it means pedifiles are around and to be very careful. allso watch out for bikes.

i climbed all the way up here!

this is namur. we went to a chocolate cafe here and then climbed up about a bazillion steps to the top of this citadel. i think thats a kind of castle. the view was pretty good but i was tired.

look at the fancy house!

this fancy house was in a french garden. we were the only people in the whole garden because they were getting ready to close for winter. there were some goats there and allso a donkey. and lots of fontains.

i went to belgums!

i went to belgums in october with aunties and unko bens. we were there for two weeks. i got lots of culture that i want to share with all my fans. that means you.