My So Called Parisian Life: Brussels!

Sorry I'm so late in posting! We left early Friday morning for Belgium! It was only an hour and 22 minute train ride which was really nice. When we got there it was freeeeeeezing and we didn't have a map yet, so we basically wandered around until we found where we needed to go. A little sketchy I know, but the city is so small that it didn't really matter. We found our way over to Grand Place, which is one of the nicest squares in Europe. Of course it started to snow, so we went into a little café and got some waffles. Once it stopped snowing we walked around and saw the Manneken Pis. I still don't understand why everyone loves this statue so much, I'm not the biggest fan of it, but it's a part of the culture so we had to see it.

We went in and out of a bunch of cathedral's which was really cool. Every way we would turn there would be something else that we wanted to see, whether it be a museum or a statue, or whatnot. The weather was so weird, so it went from snowing, to blue skies, to rain, to snow again. We were so cold and tired by the end of the day that we were totally ready to go home. We definitely did not need to take such a late train home. We had plenty of time to do everything 3 or 4 times, which we did in some cases.

We went to a really good restaurant that had amazing chicken caesar salad wraps and wifi! All of the signs were in french and dutch which was interesting to try and decipher what was being said. When our feet couldn't carry us anymore we went to the park to sit down and people watch for a bit. We got lucky because the sun decided to come out for a bit so we sat and basked in it. When we were trying to kill two hours before we had to head back to the train station we kept going in and out of chocolate shops and were sampling everything. We finally settled on ones that we liked and then headed to the station. It was a long, cold, and wet day, but it was fun!