Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Fromage

I recently went for fondue at the most delicious restaurant. Although not the fanciest restaurant that I've been to since getting here, it was probably the most delicious. The menu had a wide variety of fondues to choose from, and dipping accesories ranged from bread and potatos (what we had) to meats and other interesting looking things. The fondue pots were huge. The ones we got were for one person (there was also a two person option), and we maybe ate half of each pot.

Mushroom and cheese, tomato and cheese and gruyere and emmental:

This is the grandpa that was working at the restaurant. It seemed like he was the owner or something. He bossed around the waitresses and cooks and kept sneaking bits of cheese off the raclette cheese melter. He basically just wandered around the restaurant making funny faces and trying to look cute.

Did you know that swiss cows go "Meuh"?:

Of course we had to get a desert of chocolate fondue. I'm not sure if the choclate or cheese was better. These were our chocolate dippers, yum!
Definitely a restuarant to go back to. So delicious.

Happy Halloween!

Whenever we buy coffees at work, we are given a cookie or chocolate or sweet along with our coffee.  For the last few weeks, we've been getting ready for Halloween.  Halloween is barely a holiday in Belgium, and the festivities at work are a little strange.


Happy Halloweenie!

Monday, October 20, 2008

Flowers

These flowers grew right by the bus stop I go to every day.  It was like a little wildflower field in the middle of the city.


Aren't they pretty?