Belgium!

Hello! Again, sorry it's taken me so long to post a blog. A couple of weeks ago I made it over to Belgium to see Laina! It was so great, two of my roommates and I hopped on a plane headed to Brussels where Laina met us and led us back to her little college town of Leuven. By little I mean, the town is little but it hosts something like 30,000 college students. I loved this town, every street was bars, restaurants, shops, etc. all within walking distance of everything. Everyone had bikes (I hardly saw anyone driving) and bars were open until at least 8 am (although we did not stay out that late, thank God). Turns out everything that is stereotypical Belgian is not like other places where it's really a touristy thing, there is literally beer, chocolate and frites everywhere. It was awesome, I love it so much! All of my favorite things to eat! When we got into Leuven, Laina took us to this really cute restaurant that was awesome for two reasons, number one it was cheap, and number two it was delicious. The restaurant had Dutch menus which is just about the most hilarious language ever, (I don't mean to be offensive, but it sounds like drunk English hahahaha). We then went around the bar circuit by Laina's house and miraculously stayed out until 6 am (which was apparently an early night) hahaha. We slept in the next day and woke up and headed out to Brugge. This is the most adorable little town, tons of shops and chocolate and views, I loved it! We went back to Leuven (all off this travel was via train), and decided to take a nap, which turned into going to bed early because we had tired ourselves out the night before. The next day, after like 3000 hours of sleep, we woke up and headed out to Brussels. This is also an adorable town! We walked around, ate more frites (soooo good with Samurai sauce) bought chocolate at Laina and Rick Steve's favorite shop and explored. Belgium has some sort of weird obsession with peeing children because there is the famous statue of a little peeing boy calledManneken Pis as well as a little peeing girl, so weird. We went to a bar that boasts having something like 2004 beers, and was 3 levels high. It was really cool, and fun to see all the different types of beer you can get ( I ordered one called "Lucifer" and it was pretty good). We went home, ate some pizza and went out again on the "pub crawl" if you will. We meant to call it an early night again, but I think we were just too caught up in inventing our own dance moves that we accidentally stayed out just as late as before. We crashed, woke up later than we meant, ate some delicious breakfast, got to walk around Leuven, including an adorable farmers market and then headed to the airport. I love Leuven and Belgium in general. It was definitely one of my favorite trips everrrr. Here are some photographic highlights form the trip:

P.S. The waffles are just as great as they say.