15 Jan - Drove to Mons Belgium for Jamie's swim meet at SHAPE. This is the NATO Military Headquarters. Drive was not bad - about 4.5 hours. The hotel was nice and we had a Italian dinner at a local resturant with good lasagne and great pizza.
16 Jan - Jamie had her swim meet. She did not do as well as we wanted. She won her heat in the 50m Butterfly and only marginally improved in 2 events. We left the meet and visited a Belgian Grocery store. We bought some belgian chocolate as gifts :)), purple potatos, of course some Belgian Beer, etc. It is always interesting to visit a different countries grocery store. Then we drove to Den Haag (The Hague) in The Netherlands to visit a friend, Katarina. She was an exchange student from Slovakia we knew a few years back who is now studying Law in Den Haag. We arrived and went out to dinner at 't Gouda Hof in the City Center. GREAT food and great atmosphere. They played English oldies so of course I sang along :) Kim stopped me several times :(( Appetizers, main course and dessert were allvery good to include a beer served in a round bottom glass - figure out how to drink that!! Jamie stayed with Kat so they took the train back to her apartment.
17 Jan - We met Jamie and Kat at her place and cooked her an American breakfast at her request :) Pancakes and bacon!! Then we went out to tour. We visited the Peace Palace that houses both the International Criminal Court and the Internation Court of Justice. Very pretty building. Kat uses the library there for her studies. Then we visited the university she attends in downtown Den Haag. Very LARGE building. The university is a Applied Technology University and is very international - most of the students are "foreign" and the classes are in English. Then we went to the beach to see the North Sea and walk and have lunch. We had a very nice lunch at Scheveningen Palace Promondade. It was a little windy and cold but a nice walk on the beach. ALOT of Dutch out walking on the beach with their dogs and kids!! For lunch Kim had fish and chips, Jamie and I shared a LARGE pot of mussels - (yummy) and Kat had an Eel Sandwich which she ate for the FIRST time and ate the whole thing!! She tried mussels as well. Then we went back to her apartment to warm up and play some table games. Later we went out and walked around the city center and saw the Dutch Parliment at night - very pretty building - impressive. Alot of modern buildings and resturants as well. We had dinner at an ARgentinian resturant. it was the first time Kat had beef from Argentina and it was sooooooooooooo goooouuuuuuudddddd!!!!!! We went back the hotel and Jamie and Kat hopped the tram back to her place.
18 Jan -We picked Jamie up, thanked Kat for a WONDERFUL weekend and headed home. Nice drive about 5 hours - weather was cloudy but no traffic.
Jamie at the North Sea
Argentenian steak in Den Haag
At a resturant for lunch on the North Sea Boardwalk with Katarina.
Jamie and Katarina at the Peace Palace in Den Haag. 
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