Dinant, Belgium

In an attempt to stay busy while Brian is gone we headed to Dinant, Belgium a couple of weekends ago. I had read that this town had a Citadel Fort above the town and you could take a gondola ride down into the town.  Unfortunately since we were there on the off season the gondola was not running.  In the picture below to the right is the Citadel and the small set of stairs are what you could take down into the town in lieu of the gondola.



We however did not attempt to make it down those stairs because of these five constantly moving little ones.  There really was not railing on the stairs so with three adults and five kids we decided to drive into the town.



However when we got into town the three adults five kids came into play again.  At one restaurant  the waitress said you have 3 adults and 5 KIDS - Do you just want to drink?  Love the crazy, please don't come in our restaurant look we got.
Luckily we had all brought enough snacks to make lunch for the kids because the one restaurant that we finally were able to sit ended up just serving food at night.



After our snack/lunch we headed over to check out The Collegiate Church of our Lady.  From the information I read I think it was built in the 13 century.  Let's just say like all the churches around here it is really old.



The most impressive part about this church was this large stain glass window, which is one of the largest in Europe.



Little Jonathan is the only boy in our group right now.  Kind of makes me believe the AWACS (the plane Brian flies on) myth that the big radar on top of the plane makes all the guys have little girls.  Although I do have another friend pregnant with a little boy, girls definitely out number the boys.



I don't even remember what Sidney was breaking down about at this moment.  This picture just reminds me that sometimes the two year old tantrums come early.



Another cute little town and getting out here no matter how chaotic it may be is always better than sitting at home.