Belgi(YUM!)

How did I ever think I'd have time to keep up a blog? I wish I had more time to write about all the crazy things that happened this weekend. But I don't! Summary: We had four days off to travel so we did! We went to Belgium!

A few worth-mentionables:

• Got to hitchhike for the first time. It was so amazing. I wish it weren't so sketchy in the states. It's such an adrenaline rush. I'm sure that'll wear off, but playing damsels in distress trying to walk to and from the train station really does wonders. We got to meet prince charming in an Audi. Too bad he didn't speak English.
• Passport check on the night train was a treat, given the police officers were speaking dutch and we were all half-asleep. Someone muttered something along the lines of "What are they doing? Robbing us?" after which we got to hear them make fun of us in dutch. Another treat.
• We had the most incredible hospitality ever at the American College in Leuven. Fr. Mahar, you rock.
• The waffles don't disappoint. Neither does the Chocolate. Oh! The chocolate. We went from chocolatier to chocolatier and decided which to buy from based on the quality of their chocolate fountain. I'm pretty sure I'd do that again.
• Then there were churches! And palaces! And gardens! We all had a moment while sitting in the palace gardens when we realized we were...in Belgium, which was pretty crazy. I mean, we were sitting in a garden in Belgium. I'm just so blessed and so thankful to be here. My life is really pretty awesome.
• I'm pretty sure I witnessed a series miracles on the way home, given that we shouldn't have even made it home. Trains were running late every which way, and we all had philosophy homework that needed to be finished today looming over our heads. But all the trains were just the perfect amount of late so that we could get on them if we ran, and all the conductors were just the perfect amount of saintly...holding entire trains just for us and not minding our chilling out in the luggage compartment when all the seats were full. I'm telling you, we had some serious Guardian Angels looking out for us. It was really quite incredible.

And next week we have our 10-day Rome/Assisi pilgrimage, which I know will be incredible. I'm flying down a day early with some friends and one of our campus chaplains to see some saintly sights in southern Italy before we meet up with our group in Rome. I'm so looking forward to this.

You're in my prayers and again, I love you all.