The Noehren's

We decided it would be fun to check out our state capitol, Frankfort, after Grant's soccer game last Saturday.  We took the country route through horse farms and stumbled upon Wallace Station totally by accident!  It's a fun sandwhich place that was featured on Diners, Drive-In and Dives.  It's ironic too since I was planning on going there for the first time this week with friends but had to stay home because our tree trimming guy was running late.  Haley enjoying her man sized BLT.  Frankfort is small, but the capitol is really pretty!  This one's for you Michelle!  We saw it in a window of the capitol on our walk in.  It was in the Commision of Women's offices and we thought of you!  Now would be a good spot to put in a plug for you to move here and work for our commision instead! It was a fun afternoon, complete with 3 sleeping people in the car on the ride home. 

Last Friday night we hosted a bunch of UK students that work in Brian's lab for a kickball/cookout party.  It was way fun!  First we headed down the road to play some kickball at the park.  They were kind enough to let Haley and Grant play and few had the heart to get them out so it was a guaranteed point!  Then we headed back home for a cookout.  As you can see - there is a lot of "estrogen in the lab" as Brian says.  They are 1st, 2nd and 3rd year DPT students so he also acts as pseudo advisor to many of them too. He does have one Ph.D. student, Caroline, who is AWESOME!  Without her help Brian would be even further buried.  He can't say enough good things about her - plus she had my kids wrapped around her little finger in a heartbeat!  Our friend Chandra moved in town this week and came to the party too.  Her boyfriend Mike (the buddy Bri hiked in Colorado with earlier this year) got a job at UK in the Ki...

I know these blog posts are super long and I'm the only one who really cares - but I promise this is the last one! Even though we stayed in Ghent for 5 nights, we took lots of day trips all over Belgium on the trains.  My parents and I checked out Antwerp.  Below is their super nice train station.  It's right up there with Grand Central in my book.    It was a big bustling city with lots of cool old buildings and shopping galore!  Their diamond museum was closed for renovations, but we had fun anyway.   We toured Ruben's house, studio, and garden (a famous artist).  "Wuz Up?"  Another afternoon Brian, my mom and I went to check out Brussels.  My poor dad stayed back with a cold.  This building had about a zillion statues on it.   Not sure what's going on here - but I think they were kicking off the beer festival going on there.  We ate Fritas with curry...

After 3 nice days in London we headed over to Ghent, Belgium via trains. Thank goodness for the invention of suitcases with wheels!  We fell in love with this beautiful city automatically! If you look on the left you'll see our Marriott hotel.  It was the best location ever! Here is the other side of the canal outside our hotel.  It was a big hang out spot. A few blocks away was this cool medieval castle where the town ruler used to keep the local residents in check.  I swear every room was used as a torture chamber!  Makes me glad to live in modern times! I loved the castle doors. Me checking out the kingdom from the top. Brian climbing the crazy stairs to the top.  This sign was like most in the house - oh, you know - a place to store horses, stuff, oh, and to torture people.  They even had a hole in the middle of one room that they would drop people down into a whole other deep, dark room and left them there until t...