Made it to Belgium!

Have any of you seen Chevy Chase's Eurpean Vacation? Well welcome to the Herrmann European vacation! Since the Fargo plane left an hour late we nearly missed our connecting flight in Chicago to go to Brussels, Belgium. Do not believe (Mike's version that I had to stop and buy water before boarding!)

So we are almost at the end of our 7 hr flight when the pilot infirms us that the Brussels airport closed 30 minutes ago because of too much snow! They routed us to Amsterdam, The Netherlands where we sat on the olane for 3 hours looking at the above view! It was cool flying in as there was lots of green fields and canals.

We  were suppose to get to Brussels at 8:20am and instead arrived 12:30pm. Going through customs and getting our luggage took another hour. Since we are such world travelers we told Marvin and Jan we would take the train to there town. We hopped on one train as the guy was motioning to hurry get on (not sure if that is what he really said as he was speaking French and we don't speak French!)  After riding the train for one minute we realized we had no clue where it was going.  Some guy felt sorry for us told us to get off at Nord, which would have been good except we didn't know how to figure out their trian system or read the language!  After several hours of reading signs and texting Marvin, Mike came up with a plan (see picture below) on which train to take so we hoped on it at 5:30pm and got to Marvin and Jan's around 6:30pm.  Marv reminded us several times thst we were due in at 8:30am not 6:30pm!  Had anice evening with them and their children. Off to bed now as it is up early and see if we can make it to Berlin as the snow might affect the trains running, they got about 4-5 inches of snow.