Bruselas

I just got back last night from brussels and it was amazing. The weather was a bit chilly but the city is beautiful. In Grand Place, the main square, half of the buildings are guilded with gold. The architecture is impresive and gothic, and the signs are..... very hard to read.

The first day we went to a chocolate museum and got free samples and some of us got to do a chocolate liqour shot in a chocolate shot glass. Then we went and saw Mannekin Pis. This is a statue about 20 inches tall that depicts a naked boy taking a piss into a fountain, hence the name. I took a photo where it looks like he is peeing into my mouth. Then we went to the city museum where we got to see a lot about how the city was formed. The last part of the museum is dedicated to Mannekin Pis. Since the 1940`s countries have been donating clothing for the little boy and they are all in this room. For example, the US sent a few and one of them is a Mickey Mouse costume, and Spain sent a Matador costume. They were awesome. Look em up. That night we went to a bar called Bizon Café. It was col because they have a ton of different types of beer and about a thousand concert stubs along the rafters. Once we had a drink or two we went out to Delerium Cafe. This famous bar is in the Guiness Book of World Records for having the most types of beer in the world; 2004 types. This is fitting because Belgium is known for its beer and has some 250 different brands. We sampled around 5 or 6 beers each and got pretty drunk because they are all 10% by volume there.

The next day we went to a beer museum which was informative, but we had already done the Heineken Experience in Amsterdam, so we knew a lot of that already. We got a free beer out of it though. Then we went to Atomium. It is a replica of an iron atom blown up 650,000,000 times the normal size. It was crazy and you can take an elevator to the top of it to get a 360 degree view of the city from almost 400 feet up. >It was originally built for a world fair in the 1970´s. After that we did some shopping. Everyone got some chocolate since Belgian chocolate is the best in the world and also some authentic Belgian waffles. The second night we went to Delerium Cafe again but only for a shot of Absinthe. It was really fun, but unfortunately we didn´t halucinate, although a friend of mine that came said the last time she did it she had 2 shots after already being realy drunk and ended up falling on the floor and not having the strength to get back up. She said it was hilarious. Then we went to a bar called Celtica. It was a bar in the 1st floor and a club on the 2nd floor. We spent most of our time dancing to techno on the 2nd floor, because we met up with one of my friend´s friend who is extremely flamboyantly gay and just wanted to dance. He crossed the lines while dancing with me then he first bent over in front of me while dancing, second when he licked my ear for a photo, and third when he smacked my ass on the dance floor. I knew it was all in fun and he was joking, so it was hilarious.

The third day we did a little sight-seeing and then flew home, but overall it was a great time.

Zukks - you would be so jealous at how many beer labels I got from all of the different types of beer I tried.

Tina - the next time you go into bambi mode when ur wasted you can now blame it on Absinthe.