Monday, December 25, 2006

We woke up this morning to the arrival of Jim Lennon, Danny Summerhill, and Eric Tonkin. They were snowed in at the airport in Denver but finally arrived this morning. Steve, Jim Lennon and I went out for a ride soon after their arrival, and it was cold outside. It was all the moisture in the air that killed the face, ears, hands, toes... and just about everything else. This ride was a little different from all the others because we rode today without someone who knew where they were going. We rode into the neighboring town that I can now pronounce but we still have no idea how to spell it, so we are not even going to try. We liked the lamb in the picture below so we got a picture with it. On the way back we only go lost momentarily but we asked a random Belgian guys and he spoke Flemish but we were able to get the direction of our town out of him and we made it back and out of the cold. Other than our ride there wasn't much going on today. The town was shut down for Christmas, but it was still fun to cruise around. We were watching the crazy Belgian TV in our room when a random Belgian old man came by and began looking into our window. So, Steve opened the window and Steve, Nick Weighhall, Jim Lennon, and I attempted to have a conversation with him. But it was hopeless the man just rambled in Flemish and laughed at everything, he was very cheerful, he said "Merry Christmas" finally and departed. It was the high point of our Christmas in Belgium. Other than that today was a relaxing Christmas.



Merry Christmas from Belgium,
Sean

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Sean, Tried to call the house phone a few times - no answer. Merry Christmas!!!!! xoxox mom and the fam.

Anonymous said...

Can you post a picture of your hosts - and the group?

SGK said...

Hey guys. Have fun, train and race hard.

Marco's Mom said...

For those of us watching from afar, we wonder exactly where you are?

What city/town?

A photo of all of you with your host family would be appreciated.

Sean - See if there are any Romijn's in the phone book.... !-D