Beautiful Brugge

I woke up the next morning a little later than planned, but that was ok.  I grabbed some free breakfast and then headed out to explore the little town of Brugge!  I walked to the square and took some pictures of the Belfry Tower before heading to the Chocolate Museum!  The museum was great!  I learned so much about how chocolate was invented and about the Mayans and that it actually started as a drink with spices before it was made solid and eaten like we have it today!  it was so interesting and at the end there were chocolate sculptures!  There was even a chocolate Barack Obama!!!  Then we got to watch a demonstration on how they make chocolates with filling inside!  Then we got to taste them! =)  Then I got to go crazy in the shop buying chocolate and other souvenirs!  After the chocolate, I headed to the Friet Museum (French Fries)!  This museum was great too!  It talked about different kinds of potatoes and then about how to make the best fries.  There were posters about different types of sauce to eat on them.   There were old potato choppers and peelers as well as some fryers!  There was even a Fry Robot…a vending machine that actually makes fresh French fries!  Then there were some funny paintings of French fries!  After the museum, there was a fry shop and there we got 40 cents off an order of Belgian Friets!  I was going to get Joppy sauce, my favorite, but after seeing those posters, I decided to try the Andolouse!  It was delicious! 

After this museum, I headed back to the hostel to drop off my chocolate and souvenirs.  I decided to take a quick nap that ended up being about an hour instead of 20 minutes.  Then I jumped up and headed to find the canal tours!  It was nice to see the city from the water and I got to see a lot of the buildings that I hadn’t seen yet!  Then I walked around to find the beer wall and then went into several different chocolate shops and bought some stuff for myself and some for my family back home!  Yum!  It was hard to choose which shop to buy from because they all looked soooo good!  Then I headed back to the hostel, dropped my chocolate off, and headed the opposite direction to the windmills that I saw on my way in the night before.  I took some pictures and then headed back to the hostel for dinner. 

The hostel I was at was also a restaurant and bar!  The food was amazing!  I tried a traditional Flemish meal: Vlaamse Stoverij!  This is a beef stew cooked in a dark beer sauce and served with fries!  It was amazing!  I also got a free beer sampler for being a guest of hostel.  I got to try the Abbey, Wheat, and Cherry Beers!  The Cherry Beer was so good that I bought some bottles to bring back to Germany for my friends to try!  I also got one of the apple ones to try!  After dinner I was so stuffed I could barely move!  I went straight up to take a shower, pack all my belonging, and go to bed!  The one guy that was singing the night before was like do we scare you and I was like no and then he said kinda quietly she should be! lol It was so funny!  I was going to try to catch the 8:20 bus to the train station in the morning.