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About a year ago Evan became slightly obsessed with a music video of a pop music group from Denmark.  The group: Alphabeat. The song: Fascination.  His excitement for the fun and colorful group grew and spread among friends (including me).  In the fall we bought their first album on the secret music website that was revealed to me by Brittany Turner and that I have revealed to a few of you.  We bought their second album while on our trip only days before visiting Antwerp, Belgium.  It was here that we would get to see Alphabeat live!  The day of the show Evan claimed to possibly more excited about this event than any other thus far in life.  He was exaggerating I'm sure, but part of me thinks that he wasn't...  As expected the show was like a perfect ice-cream sundae and the Fascination encore was the cherry on top!

This is only one of the highlights of a very busy trip since leaving Spain.  Before Antwerp we were in Brussels for a few days eating waffles and fries and listening to Barbara teach us about the European Union (because Brussels is the capital of the EU).  From there we took a day trip to Brugge and Gent.  Brugge was quaint and beautiful!  Gent, well, we basically got free coffee and walked back to the train station...

Since Antwerp we have been to Cologne! Munich! Prague! And now Berlin! oh, yea, and poland.

This time has been a good "recovery" period from the marathon, which means no running and lots of eating!  Back in Knoxville my running habits allowed my metabolism to keep up with my ice-cream based diet, but with race "recovery" and European food things have changed.  The result: I've gained about 10 pounds and Evan seems to have lost weight!  I've started running a little bit again...

Next stop: Italy.