Today's story begins on Saturday morning...
David and I woke up to happy thoughts about heading to Belgium to go kayaking. On our way out the door we stop down in our cave to get an old t-shirt for David to wear that has previously been packed away with all our winter clothes. At our cave door David asks, "Susan, why did you leave the cave unlocked...and why did you throw our winter clothes all over the place?" "Huh?" I replied. After walking into the cave I noticed that our winter clothes were thrown all over the place...definitely not how I left them. I had packed them all away in some of our suit cases to store them for the summer and now they were out everywhere. This is the point where David and I realized that someone had gotten into our cave. They had pried to door open and gone through all of our stuff.
In our cave we have, out of season clothes, our 2-second tents, 4 pieces of luggage, a jar of apple sauce, a can of green beans, and lots of boxes. After repacking everything we have found that nothing was taken. It's strange - what were they looking for? Not clothes, not food, not shoes...something more valuable? Like an old TV maybe? So, the conclusion is that they wanted something different than what we have, or our stuff wasn't good enough...both are fine with me. We also looked around in the cave area a little more and discovered that another cave had been broken into, and a third had been attempted. We can't really tell if any one's stuff was taken though. We also saw the door that leads to the outside of the building to the street...it was open...broken open. So that is how they got in. We're going to tell the agency tomorrow morning and post a note in our building to inform everyone. I don't know how often people go down to their caves. BUT, if someone left the door from the caves to the main building open someone could get into our apartments and that is really scary. I won't be going into the cave by myself anymore!
We went to a new country...well, it was new to me, David had been there before. With some other students from GTL we car pooled through Luxembourg and up to Belgium. What we saw of it was very beautiful. The river that we went down had a lot along it to see as well. We saw this really cool castle on a hill (more pictures on my PicasaWeb site) and there was another really large rock that some people were climbing. Then we saw some cows. They were mooing like crazy. It sounded like they all had a stomach ache. There were also a few places where the water was a little rougher and that was fun too. We stopped a few times at various places. At one of them we got out, some people bought drinks, and I headed to a bathroom. Right next to the bathroom there was an ostrich. It was enormous and kind of out of place. It was a "camping" area with a random ostrich. At the same stop, when we were getting ready to leave David and I realized that our boat was missing... Eventually we found it about 30 feet from where we had tied it, and a paddle was missing. Some friends found our missing paddle a ways down the river...
What else is new? David has discovered that with PicasaWeb you can post locations with your pictures. So he has been sitting here placing each picture that he has on a map exactly where the pictures were taken. It is pretty cool, but I think he's obsessed.
I made blueberry muffins for breakfast this morning in one of those silicone bake ware things. It's the first time I've used one but it worked really well! Too bad we don't have anymore blueberry muffin mixes! I guess I'll have to look up some recipes and make them from scratch. Oh well.
Harry Potter this Wednesday! Hope you are as excited as we are!
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