clean up

The flood clean-up started a few days ago in our building. Unfortunately, our friends downstairs lost all the contents of their house and have been sleeping on couches of friends and neighbors. In fact all downstairs' apartments were badly damaged, cars included. Marc's car suffered some major water damage, sigh. But we are doing fine, thank God. Schools re-opened and we are resuming our Spring Term schedule. Both Gabi and Lucas are doing class topics of Self, Civilisation, and Home Countries. So, we are making big collages of the Belgian side of the family and Mexican American side. So far all Marc and I can think of are food items, like tacos and belgian waffles, (typical.) The rains also brought the satellite down so we've had no TV since then and we are actually enjoying the evenings without it. We are watching some of the DVDs that we buy and never get around to watching. We are also catching up on books too. I finally read Into Thin Air. That was intense and so sad. I've included a picture of some of the clean up process here in our compound. But also, Marc ran a 10k on Friday. He did really well for a first-time-in-his-life run. So here is a before and a couple of afters.