Road Trip

More of a train trip I guess, but none the less left Brussels for Bruges and another day of sight seeing. Bruges is a special place because it wasn't heavily damaged during the way and still has most of it oldest buildings. Based on what we saw my guess is the tourist attractions around Europe would be quite different if it weren't for the war. The whole day felt like we were walking around a theme park or movie set. Everything super old and super cool.

As we stumbled into town, I was still hurting from the previous nights desert waffles and the mornings breakfast bonanza III, we heard a band and quite a bit of commotion. Just as we arrived the Assumption Day Parade was going by. We knew it was a national holiday, but didn't know anything about what was going on. I will leave it up to you to do your own Assumption Day research. No Sunday School today, sorry. The parade ended in the town square where we were dwarfed by the shadow of the. This is just one of three huge steples in the town. Must have taken some serious convincing after the first two to build the third. Seriously what town needs 3 huge spires? Either that or there were a lot of belgians with big egos who wanted a bigger one.

This lady looked like she could barely
hold her huge spear thingy

We took a BOAT RIDE!! Tour of the city which was cool, I couldn't help but wonder how many times the place had flooded, as the water came right up against the houses along the canal.

Kristen and Nicole had this Rick Steven's travel guide which they kept quoting from "Rick says this" or "Rick like that" took me half the day to figure out who the hell rick was. He did however lead us to a awesome waffle place. Before we ordered I told Kristen "just order something I will eat what you don't" she made some comment like "oh I am super hungry I will eat it all." Then she got handed this monster. So I ended up with my waffle and half of hers. Amateur!!

My sad plain waffle

Kristen's super waffle

The last real stop we made in town was the Church of Our Lady. Or course a huge tower, in fact the second tallest brickwork tower in the world, but the main attraction is Michaelangelo's Madonna. One of few of his works to ever make it out of Italy. Obviously the church must have know it was in Rick's book and that rich tourists were coming to look at it, because they were charging admission to see most of the church and the statue which they tried to block from view with a curtain and a tree. Well there was no hiding anything from Kristen and with the zoom lens on the camera we managed to sneak a peak.

More frites and waffles for dinner and dessert, and some more fruity beers and off to bed