Another beginning of the week at St Idesbald

Trip Start Jul 15, 2008

Trip End Aug 13, 2008

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Flag of Belgium Koksijde, West Flanders, Belgium
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Yeah... Killian wants it, Killian gets it. Life's easy sometimes. We're back on the road to go the seaside. I arrived quite late around 4 pm, so we just have a lazy afternoon with Alexis, Sabine and Jee. The couple is going away the same night, so we went to restaurant together. Killian played again with cuis-tax. We had a beautiful thunderstorm to watch and I took many pictures of the approaching threathening dark clouds. It looked like the Apocalypse Knights would come along soon. Thunder was far away still, and never came in nearby. We just watched the dark dark skies and the flashing lightning.

Next day, I went to the beach after a lazy breakfast at a lunchtime hour. I played ball with Killian. I figured out I should try some aikido moves and falls and I ended up with a lumbago... meaning broken back muscles. I couldn't move almost. My muscles were contracted like hell, and even laughing was painful (I had to hear the silly jokes of Jee that is why...). Standing or lying was the only option, whilst sitting was a nightmare unless many pillows were stuck under my back. I had a doctor check up to verify that I had nothing broken, but it seemed not. I just had to wait until it goes away. I had the belgian treatment, I stay on a terrace all afternoon drinking beer while Killian was playing with cuis-tax. All the plans of hiring a cuistax myself or of nice bicyle rides in the sand dunes were revoked.
At night I watched Aniki, a movie about Yakuza imported in the states with another belgian beer to relax a little bit. I'm lucky I could find a decent position to sleep and made it till the next morning.

I started to worry for Friday party and my evenings till then! I kind of planned to do some climbing and maybe some more skating, and a big dancing party Friday night. The next day I was ok enough to sit and drive my car back to Brussels, so I did. My mother caught me soon for an acupuncture session. Like a needle pillow ...pin pin pin ... on my back and some in the back side of my knees ...ooohoooh and also with some electric current. "Stop me when you feel 'vrrrr' she said turning up the amperage". Nice nice. As I was lying, I had that kind of Pavlov reaction that for me triggers sleep when I'm lying so I dozed a while. My mother didn't even forgot me, which means she was a little bit worried, and after 20 min she removed the needles. Well anyway, this worked just fine! I started planning my evening and walking around. I went to see my cousin in Genval around 9 pm, and we had quite a nice chat. Then my sister arrived from France around 11 pm, so I stayed and chatted some more with her.

Not such an interesting beginning of the week in terms of adventures. The most beautiful pictures are from the dark clouds.

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