On July 21st, Belgium celebrated its National Holiday. We had a great time w/friends Tori, Dirk, JD, LD, and Anna spending the holiday out in the Ardennes.
First, we headed out to Framboiseraie de Redu, a raspberry farm in the town of Redu. All of us had a lot of fun picking (and eating!) the raspberries in the field. Each family picked about a kilogram of raspberries where the shop weighs what you picked and charges you accordingly. We thought it was a great deal at 7euro's per kilo!! Especially with the "free" samples we ate out in the field!! We also bought a jar of raspberry jam and raspberry wine. Although we haven't tried the wine yet, the jam was/is delicious and I'm sure the wine will be just the same.
After having a nice lunch in town, we drove another 45 minutes to Durbuy (see our first visit here back in May, 2008) where we bought tickets to kayak down the River Ourthe. We decided to take an inflatable raft, which was able to hold all 9 of us as we trekked the 2 hour ride down the river. It was a lot of rowing, much more than I would have liked!, (especially for Dirk) who I believe did the bulk of the work!
The weather was beautiful--in the 80's--very warm with lots of sunshine. After finally getting to the end of our raft ride around 7pm!, we had a lakeside picnic dinner before heading home. As you would have guessed, the girls fell fast asleep as soon as we hit the road!
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