(6:00pm Amsterdam Time)We are on our way to Amsterdam! Right now we are driving through meadows with massive windmills on either side of us and there are twice as many bikes on the road as cars, it's awesome!
Yesterday we went to Brugge, a historic town with canals running though it. We were excited to see the old buildings, the canals and the famous Michelangelo statue, but more than anything we were excited to be in the city with the highest chocolate per capita ratio in the world. Yum!!
Belgium was amazing, the first day in Brussels we visited the EU, which we were all really excited about. Unfortunately the only time slot for the presentation we were attending was at 9am, meaning that we had to leave our hotel at 8am (7am London time). Long story short, after our first night in Belgium it was almost impossible to wake up and sitting through a two-hour presentation on the voting and legislation procedures of the EU was even more difficult. So in order to stay awake we made a list of possible "team names" for our group. Possible names included Team Barrilicious (After our professor, Barry), Team Amurica, Team Awesome Sauce (Parks and Rec Reference) and Team Nap-time (for obvious reasons). But after we overcame our tiredness, the EU itself was fantastic!
Yesterday we went to Brugge, a historic town with canals running though it. We were excited to see the old buildings, the canals and the famous Michelangelo statue, but more than anything we were excited to be in the city with the highest chocolate per capita ratio in the world. Yum!!Last night we went to a bar with the most famous beer in the world: Delirium Tremens. The night consisted of me trying to understand why people like beer (I still don't understand), David trying to keep his roommate out of trouble (he didn't succeed), and Lizzie warding off the advances of men left and right (one guy even cried because she wouldn't dance with him, he didn't understand why his full-proof pick-up line "you have sexy legs" didn't make her swoon).
We did a lot of amazing things in Belgium, but my favorite was the Atomium which was a huge structure built for the world fair, the whole thing looked like a molecule with spheres connected by tubes but it was so large that you could walk inside the tubes to get to the different spheres and each sphere had something in it: a restaurant, a museum, a cafe, etc. From the top sphere you can see all of Brussels! Eating waffles in a sphere suspended hundreds of feet off the ground = the perfect Belgium moment.
And we are looking forward to Amsterdam!
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