I want to avoid getting resumes ready and sending them out for another hour or so today, since that's all I did yesterday, so I'll tell you all a little about Belgium. :-)
We got in very late on Friday night so our day really started on Saturday after we slept in, of course. After a huge and awesome breakfast (stay at the Courtyard Marriott if you're ever there), we spent most of the early afternoon walking around the old central part of the city. We took a break for some beer before going to an early music chamber concert at the instrument museum. The concert was great, cheap, and I was amazed by all of the little kids in the audience. None of them made a peep - that would never happen in Italy.
After some more walking, beer, and Thai food for dinner, we enjoyed a puppet show at the puppet theater in Brussels. Unfortunately it was in French and the story was about the Belgian revolution so we didn't know the story. We did still get a kick out of it, however, because those puppeteers make those puppets do some funny and obscene things - if you ever get a chance, go see a puppet show!
Sunday we went to Brugge, an adorable little town about an hour northwest of the capital. First stop was the Choco-story chocolate museum (I'll post a picture this weekend with me and the chocolate egg), then lunch, more beer, and our own little walking tour of the city. That night after returning to Brussels we had dinner at a little Belgian cafeteria and Trey stopped me from eating pork tongue. I should've been able to figure it out between the French and Dutch signs, but was a little tired. Thanks schatz!
Monday it rained a lot and was freezing, so we spent the morning at the cozy, warm brewers' museum in the basement of the Brewer's Guild building before going shopping for more chocolate and beer, and stopping for a beer and some kabob and waffels before heading out of town. Those waffels are awesome!
I hope that doesn't sound too terribly boring. All in all I got to try 5 new beers - a Kriek (cherry beer), Leffe Brune, Hoeggarden Wit (sp?), a chocolate beer, and Grimbach Brune. If they made beer like that in the states I'd drink it all the time! The chocolate is also incredible. I grew up in German & Swiss stuff, which is much better than the American stuff, but this stuff from Belgium is exquisite! I brought back about $35 worth for us, which amounts to about a pound and a half, but it's so worth it...the kind where you can have a little bit every day and be satisfied and happy.
I guess that's about it for now...back to work for me. Oh, the US men's curling team just won the bronze, I think. Go USA!
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We are all going to have to get together when you come home and sample some of that chocolate. :-P Sounds like you had a wonderful birthday in Belgium. Can't wait to see pictures... :-D
OK, so why are you eating Thai food in Belgium???
I want to be in Europe! That's amazing! Glad you had such a good birthday!
We had Thai food in Belgium because it's impossible to get in Italy. In fact, it's nearly impossible to get anything besides Italian food here, at least in Naples.
Yes, one of the things I will love about being back in the states is that if we don't feel like cooking, we can get more than Italian food!
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