Mons, Belgium: 3 August 2016
Day 34

We started the day with breakfast in our hotel before we left Gemma in the car to go to The VanGough Museum.  We jumped back on the local tram and headed to the museum district.  Walking through the Rijks Museum we  listened to buskers performing the Summer portion of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.  We waited in line for an hour and a half even though we had tickets already but it was well worth it.  We started this portion of our trip with water lilies and we are ending with sunflowers.

We bought sushi obento on our way back to the car -- eager to get on the road we headed out of Amsterdam to travel back to Mons.  It was raining cats and dogs which slowered us down a bit but we pulled into Mons a bit after 8pm.  We called Ken and Eileen to bring Zeke home.  They arrived with wine in hand and it was a very late evening.  The last time we saw Ken and Eileen was Christmas two years ago and I hadn't really spent any time with them since I left Japan.  We did our best to make up for lost time.  Lorayne wasn't with us in person, but I can hear her repeating the Jimmy Buffet line about the best parties were at my house when I wasn't even there.