Once we landed in Belgium, 6 very tired roommates were told that there was a train that would take them from the airport, to the city center (where our hotel was) as these boys walked off the plane, into the lobby, and out the front doors... They soon found out there was no such thing, and that you could either take a charter bus for 10 euro that takes over an hour to get to the city center, or pay a taxi an absurd amount of money to arrive at the same place. Of course these tired roommates took the hour + long bus ride to Brussels, Belgium....
Before we all landed in Belgium we were told by our teachers and friends that there wasn't anything to do in Brussels or Hassle. They were all completely wrong! I mean come on when your city has a random HUGE horn in the middle of the streets... It's got to be legit!
After some funny pictures taken here, we head to our hotel to drop our bags off and take a quick nap. Brussels is a very long and confusing neighborhood when you don't know your way around, it took us about an hour? To find our hotel tucked back behind an enormous building, as we approached the building all of us thought the same thing, "We are so screwed!" The front of this hotel looked like it was was from the ancient Rome area, it was covered in black...gunk, the windows had bars on them as if this place use to be a prison, and there were homeless people just sleeping outside on benches near our place. We were all soon shocked as we walked into the hotel to see the room open up like a show was about to begin. The building was newly painted and smelt great inside. Still a little confused we walked up to the front desk to check in. We were greeted nicely and then headed to our rooms. Spencer, Aaron and I were sharing one room while Ron, Erik, and Mike were in the other room directly one floor above us. To our surprise the room was enormous, the room had three huge beds, a massive TV (which came in useful so we could hear what was going on in Japan during the earthquake) and we all had a ton of room to throw our cloths around.
We napped for a few hours to catch up, around three or four o'clock we head to the main square of Brussels. One thing that Belgium is famous for is their Belgium Waffles. Well another thing you might not know is that Brussels holds the statue of the little kid holding his... yah and peeing?? If you've seen this is other peoples front yards or what not, it came from here and this is the original one! The only weird thing about it, is that it's a tiny statue, you'd think that it would be massive but it's not at all!
Right after we were finished taking more pictures, I ran straight to the nearest waffle stand and ordered myself this!
Trust me when I say that, this was the greatest desert EVER! I also had a selection from these...
Shortly after that, Ron and I ran across the other side of the street one again to stuff our faces with some fresh home-made Belgium Chocolate.
See Mom and Dad, I told you I was putting my money to good use, HEHE!
For the next few days we spent our time in Brussels, we were still waiting for Saturday to come so we could make our way to Hassles to go to Sensation. But before we left for Hassle we spend the first two nights bar hopping in Brussels. The night life was great there, lots of Irish Pubs, regular bars, etc. They all loved americans (which was a huge relief) and we all had a great time! One of my favorite things about Brussels is on a nice day you could get a good book, bottle of wine and prop yourself down in the square and enjoy the amazing church and buildings. (No I didn't do this or had the desire to, it's just what everyone was doing there)
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