In Bruges

So Rome was really cool, especially when compared to Bruges! We took a sleeper train overnight to Paris. Our room was much nicer than the one we shared with Pablo and Julietta. We hung out in our room for a while and enjoyed the fact that we had the room to ourselves. There were three beds and I claimed the top bunk cause that's where its at. Although it was cool to sleep up high I found out that it was MUCH hotter up top(the ol' "heat rises" thing i guess). I was in the process of moving down to the bottom bunk when a knock came at the door. I opened it and there was no-one there. I went back to moving my stuff from up top and the knock came again and this time a guy came in and hoped up on the top bunk. haha I was sooo glad that i had just moved down to the bottom cause now he had to deal with the heat. He didn't talk much but he definitely commented on the heat of the room! We talked to him a little bit and found out he was an American from Pennsylvania studying Italian in Florence. We got to Paris, jumped on a train to Brussels, and then on the one to Bruges. Once in Bruges I bought a map and we found our way to the hotel. After dropping our stuff off and washing up we headed out to explore the town. Bruges is very very small but its got a quaint little charm. The people were nice and it literally takes no time to get to where you're trying to go. By the way, the whole reason we decided to make the trek to Bruges is because of the movie "In Bruges". So most of our time in the city was spent looking for places where they shot scenes of the movie. It was easy to find the bell tower and square but we didn't get to find the other places because we didn't have internet access to look them up. We ate some fake McDonalds called "Quick" and bought some Belgian chocolate(its true, that stuff is awesome). After checking out some of the touristy sites like the Basilica of the Holy Blood we went back to our room and watched some of "Meet the Fockers 2" because it was the only good thing on in English. Around 12 we went back to the square to take our signature "In Bruges" photo and then returned to our room for some r&r. We got up in the morning, ate breakfast at the hotel, and went to the Basilica of the Holy Blood to try and go inside but it was closed because there was a service going on. So we walked around and debated whether we should buy swords or knights from a cool shop we found. We decided to wait and buy that stuff once we got back to England cause English knights are definitely cooler than Flemish knights. We returned to the church now that the service was over but there was a person guarding the entrance saying that it was closed until 2! So we weren't able to go inside cause we had to leave soon to catch our train. But to raise our spirits we stopped and bought a Belgian Waffle(which was also delicious) to eat on our way to the station. We hoped on the train and headed for Brussels looking forward to finally being back in England...