Where are we Today?

This series of travel, tour, hotel, then rise and repeat has been a bit difficult. It's getting hard remember room numbers night after night. We're looking forward to the next two cities when we have time to settle a little bit.

We had the best breakfast today, they even had a waffle maker! It was nice to start a little later with happy tummies. The drive to Brussels only took about 2 hours and we were happy to get off the bus so soon. We walked to the main square Grande Place surrounded by the guild halls which were leafed in gold. It was beautiful! After that we headed to the most famous place in Brussels, the statue Mannekin Pis, which is basically a little boy peeing. Most people fail to see why it is so famous but many, many people always surround it (often dressing the statue in little outfits).

Following this everyone had free time for about five hours to wander the city and find lace and chocolate. Belgium is famous for its awesome waffles -- and many of us indulged in hot waffles covered with cream, sugar, Nutella, bananas, strawberries....YUM! After free time we went to dinner at a restaurant outside the city and finally to the hotel right across the street from the Atominum (a cool structure built for the World Expo in the 1950s).

Another day has flown past! We are off to Paris tomorrow!!