Saturday, December 26, 2009

Ghent, Belgium

Happy Holidays to everyone! I hope you had a great day yesterday. We had a very long trip to get here in Belgium.

A word problem for you: Our flight from New York took 6 hours. We left the airport at 10:00 p.m. The time in Madrid is six hours later than in New York. What time did we arrive in Madrid?

Our daughter Cory met us at the airport and we took a bus and the metro to get to her apartment. We rested for a while, ate some lunch, and then headed back to the airport to catch our flight to Brussels, Belgium. Our son Colin met us at the airport at midnight, and drove us to the apartment where we are staying in Ghent. The apartment is great--small rooms and lots of floors--I'll send pictures later. We cooked a great meal last night and today we'll spend the day walking around sightseeing. Back to Madrid tomorrow!

3 comments:

kiley said...

Hi Ms. Peterson,

I think you got there are 10am.

Do they speak a different language there?

Have a great time.

Kiley McClure

Joy Peterson said...

Hi Kiley,
You're right! We arrived in Madrid at 10:00 a.m. While we were in Belgium some of the people spoke French, some of the people spoke Dutch, and some of the people spoke Flemish! Luckily for us, we also found some people who spoke English.

alicia said...

Hi Ms. Peterson

We guessed 10:00 a.m. too before we saw your post. What was your favorite day so far? Is there snow there?

Alicia V.