Shopping for Groceries

On Sundays most stores are closed in Belgium, so our new friends (the Biasi's) invited us over for dinner which was very tasty! They were wonderful company and the kids had such a great time at "that lady's house that had the Wii Mario Kart and all those Polly Pockets"!

Monday came and it was time to go grocery shopping. We went to a store kind of like Wal-Mart back at home. So here's the fun of shopping for groceries in another country...2 hours to buy items for 3 meals and some fruits and veggies for snacks. We go to buy milk, which isn't refrigerated (and eggs aren't either) because it's sterilized (we think), and we know that milk is "lait" in French, however, we had no clue what the names were for the skim and whole milk, and 2% didn't have any numbers on it. So, after looking in our French dictionary the whole time while the kids were again, being troopers, we ended up just picking items that looked like the right ones off the shelf and throwing them into the cart. We were getting frustrated and tired from the whole adventure.