Visit from mother dearest

This Thursday my mum arrived in Belgium for her planned visit. She decided last year that she was interested in coming back to explore more of the place I live and to be able to spend more time with both me and Nathan.

Her plane was delayed already by 1h on the day of arrival so we didn’t get to Antwerp until noon. I met up with her at the train station and we walked through the city towards the place she was staying. She got to see the shopping street and the “Groenmarkt”. When we finally got to her place we realized that the stairs where super narrow. In Norway we would call them “Chicken stairs”. So it was a good thing that I was with my mum at that time since I of course had to help her carry her luggage upstairs, which quite the workout for sure.

After we had relaxed a bit we went out for a nice lunch and a short walk around the area. We didn’t have a long day since my mother was tired from traveling.

Yesterday was the first day of proper hanging out together. Nathan and I met her at KMSKA which is the place Nathan had is first performance with KARO, but this time we were here for the actual museum. They were some really nice paintings and sculptures. We managed to see everything right before they closed.

Then we were planning on heading home and have my mum over for dinner later, but plans changed due to my mothers phone acting up. After walking while being in a queue for almost 45 min to talk to customer service, we decided to just go out for dinner and do the appartement visit the next day. My mum wanted to take us to the place she recommended called “De Pottekijker”, but they didn’t have any free tables. So we took her to the Takumi ramen where Nathan and I always go whenever we eat in the city.

She ordered the spicy miso ramen with shrimp. She said that this is the best ramen she had tasted before. For dessert she tried Taiyaki and I tried a Taro (Japanese sweet potato) cheesecake.