Belgium- Bruges and Brussels

This was taken inside the Music Museum in Brussels.  It had instruments from today and all the way back to the Roman empire and from every country in the world.  You wore these headphones and when you would get close to an instrument you would start to hear it play. LOVELY!  I really was so amazed that actual people thought up actual instruments and constructed them and mastered them.  I felt like they must have been aliens because it is so far from what i would be able to create and invent and understand.  But i thank them all for their brilliance because music is vital in my life.  And when you think about it... music really is such a beautiful thing... just think....every culture, every age, every year in history...everyone makes a form of music and everyone enjoys it.   Its a bond the world shares. 
Just another hum-drum church.... :)  No, i dont get tired of their beauty.  
Belgian chocolate!!!  Sooo delicious.  These ladies were soo cute.  We walked in and they showed us the rick steves book they are now in.  They were so proud of their hand-made chocolates that we basically were applauding them.  And the chocolate was amazing, so they deserve it.  But sidenote...there are a bazillion chocolate shops lined up in Belgium. Do they really eat THAT much?  I had no idea there would be soooooo many shops. Not that i'm complaining. 
Bruges's main square.  Adorable no doubt.  

Brittany and I met up with lyds in Bruges and enjoyed Belgian beer and chocolate.  The weather wasnt amazing but the company was great.  We even watched the movie "In Bruges" while we were there... which was kind of perfect.  And went to a cafe with 44 kinds of hot cocoa.  

I liked bruges much more than brussels.  It was quaint and cute.  

Brussels was a big city... the architecture was mismatched and it felt loud and dirty.  But, in Amsterdam I had met a guy that lived in Brussels who offered to show us around a bit, so because of him we got to go to fun places one night.  We had a belgian dinner and then went to a pub with over 400 kinds of beer...insane....then dancing.  No complaints there.  Gotta love meeting friends during adventures :)  

My trip home (alone) was the following:

Walk 10 minutes to the train station.  

Take a train to the airport.

Take a plane to Prague.

Take a bus from Prague airport to Prague train station.

Take a train from Prague to Ostrava.

Take a tram from train station to my stop.

Walk from my stop home. 

It took a day.  My ipod died on the first 10 minute walk.  Ha...