POD-187: Vorselaar Castle

We were grateful for a nice enough day to go visit this nearby castle we've been wanting to see. It's a bit of a hike to get there which was nice since it isn't open for visitors.




Morgan says, "look, Mommy, football." lol


Morgan charmed a cookie and truffle from a nice grandmother walking in the woods.


Still a few mushrooms in the woods. Not and of the cute red ones with white spots, but still mushrooms.










This is what Morgan did when I asked her to put her cheek on my cheek. Then it became quite the funny game.


"You can't pass"

POD-155: Vianden, Luxembourg

Our last stop in Luxembourg was to visit this castle in Vianden. I turned out to be a perfect end to our trip as it was just a quick drive from our hotel in the morning and we were able to have a few hours to visit then Morgan slept most of the way home. Not to mention the really cool castle and walk through the town, but that's what the pictures are for.

Morgan met a nice man from Paris walking up to the castle and of course as soon as she gets a little response from a stranger she was so excited and kept trying to talk to him again and again. Finally had to distract her while I let them get a bit ahead of us. Posing for a few pictures with kitty usually does the trick.

Not to far into our tour she tripped on some stairs and the little bottle to her new baby doll fell through the cracks way out of reach. Poor little girl was distraught about that until Grammie sent some suitable replacements in the mail. Thanks Grammie:) Still she really enjoyed the castle and was asking all kinds of questions about the knights and displays and of course wanting to take her share of pictures on her own.

After the castle we still had a bit of time left on our meter so I put Morgan in the backpack (my back and I are still wondering why I didn't do that earlier in the trip) and took a little hike down the hill through the village. Would have been some nice places to stop for lunch, but that will have to be the next trip. Morgan enjoyed it too and was actually pretty mad at me when we got back to the car because she wanted to keep riding around in the backpack.












A nice Dutch guy offered to take our picture. Thanks:)


Morgan was trying to hijack my camera the whole trip, but this picture she took all on her own came out really cool I thought.




This was one of Morgan's favorite parts of the castle where they had people set up working in the castle.

POD-91: Beersel Castle

Pretty much since we arrived in Belgium and I first tried to look up a bus route from Beerse I've been wondering where Beersel is and what might be there. Scott was trying to find something fun to do today and found this castle so we headed out for an adventure. We only had a little while for the tour since they were closing for a few hours and we didn't want to wait, but we had the whole castle to ourselves. Morgan and Scott went off looking for dragons and I got to take some pictures (it is mother's day after all:))








I was trying to get the shadows of these birds while they were flitting around in the other window, but then they flew into the one in my view...score. They were totally in some sort of mating ritual. I think they're used to this castle being a bit more private.