Jelena & Tomek Bańka

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During first 9 months in BXL, Tomek shared a flat with Janek, Grzegorz, Zizou (a dog) & Ratzi (a canary), then Jelena moved from Warsaw, Jadwiga was born and we have moved to our loft. Here are pictures, which do not really fit to any other album. Different dates and places.

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Our Christmas 2008 lasted from November when we set up a christmas tree till January, when Orthodox christmas take place. We enjoyed that time with guests (Jelena's mom and our best friends from Poland). As in mid December we all got infected one by one by some virus, we spent three weeks at home - eating, drinking, singing, playing wii and running with kids.

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Momo was born and the Bosnian family joined us for few weeks in November 2009. Jelena's mother came from Teslic and her brother Srle from Toronto.

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We were very happy to have great weather during Orthodox Easter in Belgium. We managed to have an Easter breakfast and dinner with guests, go to sea side, do some touring in Brugge and play with a dozen of kids in our backyard.

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Our first self-owned place was available for settlement in early May 2007 after over 3 months of works. We leave in the district of Brussels called Forest. This is how the place looked like on the eve of moving into it.

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Here are pictures showing how we were setting up our brand new family loft! We have bought the empty place in January 2007 having already plans, archtect and booked workers, The works started a month later. You can also have a look at the loft of our neigbours at their blog - it was designed and constructed by the same team. And the second blog of our architect, which includes pictures of our place as well.

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Our best friends with their little baby Jagoda visited us for a first time in Belgum. All pics by Jurek and Silwia.

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We lived in this appartement from October 2005 till May 2007, when we had moved to the loft. It was Jelena's first place in Brussels and Jadwiga was born there. It was located in Brussels close to La Chasse.

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Renata & Ivo are siblings and cousins of Jelena. Our 3 families met during Christmas

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We were hosting Jelena's family for a couple of weeks - mother and brother with family. Mother came from Bosnia and the rest from Canada. We have been visitinig with them some of the Belgium's neighboring countries. It was June & July 2006.
Most of the pics taken with digital cameras of the Canadians, some with our film SLR.

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On the February 25th, we went to a Bosnian restaurant somewhere in the Netherlands. Bosnians from Jelena's home town Teslić, decided to revive an old tradition from their town - Maskenbal. The tradition disappeared from Teslić with war and refuge of big part of town's elite. We were invited to the 1st one abroad and had a lot of fun!

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