So the plan was to couch surf at a guy's house who said he could fit the 4 of us and so we called him and he was busy for awhile...we walked around the city centre and the grand place..we saw Place Saint Catherine and other tourist areas. Of course we also saw the statue of a peeing boy haha...lots of tourists gathered around taking pictures with it. Brussels was really pretty..the buildings are all so old and have so much detail on them. We got Belgian waffles on the street...they smell so good I don't know how people don't avoid having one at every meal! We had thai for dinner and then finally found a place to meet up with Fabio, our host. We ended up deciding to not stay with Fabio..he was much farther from the city centre than we thought and didn't have much space for 4 girls to sleep so we ended up leaving and wandering around trying to find a hostel. One of the girls had called probably 10 hostels at least but they were all booked because of a comic book festival going on that weekend...we found a room at the Hilton for 2 people and just pretended there were only 2 of us and there was plenty of space for all 4 of us! Hooray! we had finally found somewhere to sleep after wandering around with no where to go at 9 pm at night!We had all decided that we wanted to go out and there was this club we read about so we set off to find that. First we went to the Place Royale where there was a special comic strip show and fireworks at 10. The comic thing was AWESOME. They projected a ton of comics on the buildings and it was so animated and detailed. Things moved fro one building to another..there were crazy lights and sounds. It was probably one of the coolest things I've seen and then the fireworks started!!
Then it was off to find the club...We walked pretty far away from the city centre and there was NOTHING around..just a drunk man in a park taking his pants off so by now it's 11:45 or so and we realize we are not near the metro stop wewere walking towards so we decided to just turn around...and we ended up taking the metro back to the centre since our feet were killing us. Sitting in the metro everyone was sooo tired and wanted to go to bed but we walked to the centre anyways and got in line for a club. Based on how we all felt I think we all thought we'd have a drink and just go to bed since it was midnight already. Well, we all ended up waking up and having a great time! The club turned out to be some Asian appreciation night so there were sooo many asians haha but it was still really fun to dance and we ended up successful in having a fun night. When we decided to leave around 5 am some boys who were leaving also asked if we wanted to go to an Irish pub with them...which we expected to be more chill and laidback and to just sit and hang out for a bit...turns out we were very wrong! It was just another club just not as nice and with more local people. It was so much fun there...finally around 6 am we decided to head home and pass out.
Surprisingly we made it up at 11 am and all got showered and ready to check out by 12. Walked down to the centre for breakfast/lunch and then we set off to go to Mini Europe. One of the girls ended up going home because she was tired and didn't like walking around much and so the 3 of us left went to the metro station. Mini Europe was neat but there was SO MUCH! After a little while I think we all started to get kind of bored with it and stopped taking pictures and looking much. By the time we were done we headed back to the hotel to pick up our bags, grabbed some subway and fresh fruit from the market and then went to the train station for our 6:22 train back. It was a really fun weekend and I'm glad I traveled somewhere. My first trip was a success and had a few little adventures throughout! Glad to be back and SO TIRED!!! So much laundry and ironing to do now...can't wait for my next trip though :)
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