Vacations/Vakanties

We really like the vacation schedules here in Belgium. Because one of our main reasons to move here was to be able to travel around Europe, the longer vacations really work to our advantage. Instead of lots of long weekends in the school year with 2 weeks off at Christmas and 1 week for Spring break (as it was in Oregon), we have only a couple of long weekends with two 2-week breaks and two 1-week breaks. For example, next week we have the week of  "Krokus Vakantie" off school. We aren't making a big family trip that week (Kevin will be in Oregon for work the first part of the week) but Jordan and I will be able to take his 10-year-old-trip-with-mom toward the end. In April we have a 2-week spring break. In the fall there's a 1-week fall vacation and 2 weeks off at Christmas. All together there are 6 weeks of vacation during the school year. The school year is longer, running until the end of June. This made last summer see short, but we'll take it so we can take advantage of the long breaks to make trips to places like Egypt for Christmas.