Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Wake Up In The Morning Feeling Like Nick Nelson

Woke up. Breakfast was a salami sandwich with Gouda cheese and American mayo with a coke, not my first choice but its cheaper to buy things at the grocery store and eat for days than to go out every morning for breakfast and pay 3-5 euro. Then it was time to go to the train station this time our destination was Brussels, only an hours ride. When we go there we went for a walk in our business casual aka the sweater vest made its second appearance on this trip, to the European Union Parliament and got a lesson in how voting here works and new treaties are made then we got to sit in that huge half circle room full of 700+seats, you know that room they always show on CSPAN, I felt pretty legit, not ganna lie. After that we took a subway, my first time ever, to basically the other side of Brussels where we walked a mile or so passing a bunch of restaurants and we were starving when we finally were told where and when we were going to meet up as a group. We were given an hour and 15 minutes to eat and explore so Alyda and I went to a fast food place called Quick, it's basically the McDonalds of Europe and it was delicious, 2 burgers, large fries, large (refillable) pop for 7 euro, seriously a steal here. Then I sat with Katie and Ali eating some Australian ice cream that was also very delicious then we all met up as a group in a plaza that was surrounded by huge buildings that were over 300 years old looked like palaces. We then walked to the famous statue of the little boy peeing, it was a tiny statue we all thought it was going to be a big monument because the mini statues were everywhere but no it was the size of a kids doll. We walked though out Brussels hopping on more subways to help us get from place to place, stopped at a museum because it was free to go to the scenic view from the top but then a bunch of us had to use the restrooms so we went looking for them and in the process basically toured the museum for free, win. Then we went and saw the European Council and European Commission and took another train to the Atomium which is a huge statue/building that looks like atoms it was pretty sweet. We then hopped back onto the subway to get to the train, hopped on the train to get to Antwerp but I sat next to a guy from Antwerp so we started chatting and I guess it was a little too loud because everyone on the train was listening, but he was a legit guy and spoke 6 languages and was learning Chinese for his job, seriously a tank. Once we got back to Antwerp we headed back to the residence and showered and I'm packed up for the 3 day trip to Paris tomorrow. Now its time to feed my latest addiction, Sons of Anarchy.

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