As an Asian living in Holland, I can say that you have to be lucky to see the sun! I am so used to having the sun almost whole year round in Asia that when I migrated here, that’s one of the thing that I immediately missed the most. Sun and its warmth.

It’s the beginning of summer here and yet our temperature isn’t that warm. If ever we get a warm temperature, it would fall just before the evening. Ah…why can’t there be a balance I ask myself constantly? I hear from my family and friends how HOT it is right now in Asia and here I am longing for their weather!If only I can send their way some cold temperature and they send me high C, that would be perfect

There’s a reason for all these. The Creator knows what’s He’s doing. He knows what we need.

So I thank Him for letting me experience His graciousness. Cold or warm. 

Last Friday evening I was really pissed at the owner of the small hotel where we were billeted in Belgium. Actually it wasn’t only me who was pissed, my husband too as well as our friends (a couple) who were with us for that weekend get-away.
You see we were invited by our friends for this get-away and since they have already stayed 3 times in that place, we were assured that it was a good address. Also our dog was welcome since they always had their dog in all those 3 times. So they made the reservation for us 4 humans plus 2 dogs which the owners (a dutch guy married to a belgian woman) accepted. But when we arrived there we were told that no dogs are allowed in the restaurant because they’re full. And it was said in a strange manner by the belgian owner. Like she did not care for her clients’ feelings at all. We were surprised but accepted it so we decided to eat in turns so that at least someone will stay with the 2 dogs that are quite highly strung due to the strange new place. Normally our pug can be left on his own, but that night he chose to make it a bit difficult for us and became very nervous being left alone as the other dog too.
We had a bottle of wine outside the small restaurant before dinner, which was usual. We told the lady owner who also was serving the guests to simply bring out the plates for 4 for each course, it really didn’t matter to us if the food gets cold, we were complying. So I and J left our husbands with the dogs and we begun with our appetizers. We get to talking, I pitying the situation because it wasn’t really nice to have a dinner w/o our husbands while we’re so looking forward enjoying  it with us four. Thus after our first course we called out the men to have theirs. While they were eating, the belgian owner came up to them and said that ‘she doesn’t like what we’re doing! ‘she’s working double shifts” she said in such an unfriendly tone, very against the client tone. We were all surprised at this! Double shift? How? Our plates were brought out at the same time.

To make a long story short, I told our friends and my husband that I no longer want to stay in that friggin’ place. Otherwise we will have the same problem the following morning during breakfast and the next evening during dinner too. Oh you should see my face that Friday night when I heard what she’s said and accused us, no amount of  wrinkle creams would smooth my badly-rimpled-from-anger-forehead and my eyebrow that raised to the roof! That friggin’ belgian woman did not care anymore about the clients since it was their last weekend of operation! They have sold the place and running it only until last Sunday. So probably, because of all the years of kissing their clients asses she felt she was free to be her arrogant self. I wanted to do the check out the following morning but my friends beat me to it, they paid our bills while I was in the shower (they probably know that I will try to avenge us? lol)
It was the best decision we made because after checking out we drove to nearby Luxumbourg, returned to Belgium to visit Balogne. And on our way back to our respective cities in Holland, we stopped by a small town in the South and had the best Italian food!

Thank goodness for the heads above our shoulders and we cut short our stay in that place. Never again!