As weeks to visit the country of Belgium go, the Short family could have picked a much worse time than being there in the thick of the country’s deep run in the World Cup.
Tricia, Paul and their oldest daughter Hannah didn’t plan it that way though.
The family from Medford, N.J. (minus their younger twins) were in Brussels to volunteer for a week with an organization called Serve the City.
“We did everything from handing out sandwiches to the homeless, painting at refugee housing centers, serving lunch to the poor at a Sisters of Charities home and providing haircuts to refugees living in the parks,” Tricia Short said.