Rafael - Living live a day at a time

Bueno para aquellos lectores hispanohablantes (amigos y familia en Latino América especialmente) aquí están unas fotos actualizadas de Daniela que fueron tomadas en el Parque cerca de nuestra casa.
Que las disfruten.

Starting the update on places visited in the last 2 months I'll start with Namur (Or Namen in Dutch).
Namur it's a town in the southern part of Belgium (you can check it's location in Google Maps), it started as a celtic trading settlement, then was an important Roman post, then it developed as it's own county.
It was cut in half as the northern part of the River Meuse belonged to the Counts of Namur and the other side belonged to the Bishops of Liege. It felt to the hands of the Count of Flanders in 1262 and was purchased by Burgundy in 1421.
It was part of the Spanish-Netherlands in the 1640s, and was invaded by the French in 1692. After that it was owned by the Dutch, Austrians, France once again and finally what is now Belgium.
Each of these changes left its marks on the city and it's definitely worth a while to go and pay a visit to it if you are in town. Here are some pictures of the citadel and city.

Although a bit belated, this is a congratulations to my little "angel" for her 2nd Birthday, which was back in April 21st.
In order to be able to see how much she has changed (grew) I made this small contact sheets with pictures of her, one per each month since birth. It's truly amazing how much they change in a such a short time.
Ana: I owed you a picture update on Daniela, so although a bit late, here it is

Este fue un pequeño arreglo que hice para celebrar el 2do cumpleaños de Daniela, en él se puede ver una foto por cada mes de vida que tiene, comenzando con Abril 2005. De derecha a Izquierda y de arriba a abajo.
Es increible que tan rapido cambian (crecen) ¿no?

Well it is hard to get all the holidays into the blog, specially when it requires reviewing over 3,000 pictures; but I will do so in the next postings.

It all started here in Brussels so I decided to post some pictures of us enjoying the light show in the center, my sister investing her first Euros in Godiva's Hot Chocolate in the Grand Place, a toast in our place and us opening the Christmas presents.

Now the tradition is that you do so in Christmas Eve, but as we were starting to travel on the 18th, we had to move everything forward, and of course Daniela started enjoying hers as soon as it was "ON", now we are having concerts at home every now and then ;-D

Crazy hour is a new invention in Venezuela were at a certain moment of the Party the Groom and Bride will distribute hats, masks and different things so that the attendees could disguise themselves and then just enjoy some great fun.

In our case to the hats and masks we added mustaches and tequila, it was a very good combination. Enjoy the Pics