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Double-barreled confetti

Chicken Dance                                     

Alexine and my old cat Grizou

Grizou did not care to celebrate

Marie playing with (assembling?) the kids toys

      I sense a disturbance in the Force...

Christmas Play at Calvary Baptist Church

(Shape/NATO Church)

   Making Speculoos cookies

Learning about solar electricity at 'The Pass'.

Coal mine converted to science museum.

Groucho

Took me a while to notice that Marie and the kids gave my dog a second eyebrow.

L'autoroute vers Mons

La Patinoire - Tournai

Kinepolis - Brussels

Unwanted kiss

Alexine training with new instructor

RR Bridge over Nimy-Blaton Canal

School Photo

        Vertical

    2004                                      

Halloween

 Parc Royale - Brussels 2006

Bottom of Bridge - Blaton

Boy is losing his baby teeth

Parc Paradisio

It's because that everything has an end

that everything is so beautiful...

((entry to the ancient monks' cemetery)

Cambron-Bruggelette

       Leaping Lemurs

Kids almost got their crackers stolen by these guys.

Seized contraband

animal skins, purses...

Dave and Bertha = true love

(no, you can't have my dog)

Homework

Oops!  A bit overexposed.

(External flash fired at 100% power by mistake)

   Veurne

Lille

End of summer carnival

Whiplash (too fast) bumper cars

DJ swaying and grooving to the music....

...it took 5 minutes to realize he was not real

Mmmm, rôti pig parts

Johnny Hallyday Burgers

Mini Golf

Oostende

Pedalo (Pedal Boats)

Oostende

Bumba!

Water tower disguised as a lighthouse

Oostende

22 Stories tall.  Museum inside the tower.

Flemish propaganda

Cheap gas - 9.9 BEF per liter!

Nieuwport

Alexine and Cookie Monster

Mussels at Chez Leon

Alexine showing the other kids how it's done

Downtown Koksijde

Attention! Circus Pro at work...

St. Catherine's Ice Cream at Koksijde

Zoom-Zoom

Fous ta cagoule!

        Foire Du Midi

Haunted House - Foire du Midi

Bruxelles Midi - Old and new

The poor chef seemed to be getting cooked by the fire

almost as much as the meat on the grill.  Waiters refilled

his big glass of wine automatically and frequently.

End of summer fireworks at the seaside

St. Idesbald landmark

Catch a wave

Ding! Ding! Ding! Soup Wagon's here!

Brussels Midi

          

Ypres

Early in the morning

            

Plopsaland

Seriously big frying pans

Shrimp fisherman hard at work at 6:00AM

Free TV

Cheers!

Pedal powered pub

                         

Mercedes-Benz Viano and Narnia

Sponsors of the 'Miss Belgian Coast' beauty contest

(The Viano is also the type of van we had our accident in)

 

Sikorsky - 'The Last One'

Skateboarding is not a crime

Hawker Hunter Mk 4

Forecast - raining pieces of brochette!

Spin 'til you throw up!

Harmless looking ride but I felt so ill after taking these pictures

Old wheels - new wheels

     

Veurne

        

Zaza

      Going to Putt-Putt!

Southern California

   Moviola

Crosses in the sand representing

US soldiers that died in the Iraq War.

  
Alexine lifting a 5000 pound truck

(truck can be seen in background)

Early turn-of-the century photo of my

sisters' house in Pasadena.

Craftsmen style influenced by Greene & Greene

Lockheed A12/SR71 Blackbird

(and Alexine of course)

Hollywood & Vine

Musso & Frank Restaurant
Oldest restaurant in Hollywood (1919)
 

I could not convince Nicolas to meet Spiderman...

Grand old movie palace bought

and restored by the Walt Disney Co

Griffith Park Observatory

Scenes from 'Rebel without a Cause'

w/James Dean were filmed at Griffith Observatory

I can almost see Louis DeFunes

(as the Gendarme) behind the wheel

Ventura

Picturesque little city by the ocean.

20 degrees year-round, only rains in Winter...

About an hour North of Los Angeles

   Busy Bee Cafe

Sans Souci (hole-in-the-wall bar)

  

Inside of the old Ventura Theater

Originally a movie palace

but now a concert hall for rock bands.

              

City Hall

Old hot dog stand

Ventura Mission

Our first home.  Marie was pregnant with Alexine while here.

Two bedroom cottage.  Beach is only a 15 min. walk.

Trains passing through the backyard was a also nice feature!

Nicolas is somewhere underneath all of this hockey gear

London Heathrow airport...

Nicolas salivating over a Sony PS3

Heathrow's ginormous Terminal 5

Breakfast on British Airways

(I was scared to eat it)

finally falls asleep

during last part of flight.

Almost home (flying over Belgium)