a Day in Bruges

Our first full day in Belgium we decided to take a day trip to Bruges.

First and foremost we had to figure out the train there.....

here is Allison carefully studying the train schedule....
and me being very skeptical that we are going to get there problemless....
Once we got there, we wandered around a bit, looking at the scenery.

now....in Bruges were put out faith (and sense of direction) into the hands of Rick Steves (he writes travel books...) and in this very attractive picture of me, we are LOST and i am very upset at Rick for only putting HAND DRAWN maps in the book!!! (we have a very LOVE/HATE relationship with Rick....)there are chocolate shops everywhere (HEAVEN) and in this shop, this woman was made completely out of chocolate!!!!!
so after we walked into like 20 chocolate shops in AWE we wandered the city and did some sightseeing....






then, we took a canal tour of Bruges, and got soaking wet from the other boats (no one warned us it was like a Disney ride!)





after our boat ride, we decided it was time for a picnic. So we got some fries from a little stand that are apparently very popular and something you HAVE to try (they were very good) but we accidentally finished them before we got to our picnic.....
then we went into a chocolate shop to get Part 2 of the picnic....
and then into a store to get wine...Part 3...and I had to open the bottle in the store (very classy) with the cashier just staring at me with the funniest look on his face...
our wonderful picnic! (does it get much better then wine and chocolate?? i dont think so....)

after our picnic we headed back to Brussels and had a wonderful dinner that Allisons cousin cooked for us.

Our day in Bruges was a great success. and I really liked it there.