Brussels is by far the best city I’ve been to this trip. Jeremy and I have agreed that out of London, Paris, and Brussels that this is the only one we’d want to live in. We headed to the Grand Place first thing this morning and went looking for the famous Mannekin Pis statue (the little peeing boy) and ended up walking right by it without noticing! Its much tinier then I thought it would be. We also checked out some of the chocolatiers here, and even got ourselves some free samples (its DAMN good). Tomorrow we’ll purchase some I’m sure. Also, while we’re talking about food, we had Belgium Waffles for lunch. I got the most decadent one I could: waffle, chocolate chip icecream, bananas, strawberries, whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and caramel sauce. It was excellent.

We then headed to the Royal Palace (or atleast one of them). It was open for free tours, because the Belgian royal family doesn’t like to live there. Its by far the best looking (or atleast tasteful looking) palace I’ve been in. The ballroom reminds me somewhat of the one from Beauty and the Beast. I had this urge to jump into my grad dress and to just spin around in circles. However, the best part of the palace was the random room full of science! There was one room converted into a little Space and Science Centre type thing. We made paper rockets and shot them at targets. Hurrah for re-living your childhood.

Next we headed to the MIM (Musical Instruments Museum). Definatly one of the better put together museums. Everytime you walked up to one of their strange/bizarre instruments a song would play on  your headphones. It was quite excellent. Some of the instruments were like I’ve never seen before: there was a brass instrument of some kind with 6 valves and 7 bells. It was CRAZY!

Then we went on a wild goose chase to find the Atomium, which is a giant molecule monument thing. We ended up almost walking a complete circle around it. An hour or so later we finally find it, take a look, and then try to find the metro station. This is harder than you might believe. Any signage we found would point us in the OPPOSITE direction! It was rather frustrating.

One more day here in Brussels and then we head to Amsterdam! I’m ready to come home now. Travelling for this long makes one rather home sick.

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