Day 7 - mmm Belgian beer

On Thursday we woke up at 10 (we do so much each day that we get really tired!) and went straight to the train station to validate our Eurail passes (so exciting) and take a 1 hour train ride to an adorable quaint little Belgian town often referred to as "the Venice of northern Europe". Going on the train was really cool because it went through the Belgian countryside. We saw lots of cows and went by a hunch of fields and windmills. When we arrived in Brugge, he first thing we did was walk to the main markt square. Every single building in Brugge is beautiful and he streets are all cobblestone and there are canals running through the city. In the main square here are two famous fry kiosks right next to eachotherthat has been competing for years. We got some of the famous fries which were delicious but very salty. Then we went to the chocolate museum (which was such a rip off). Then we walked down a long road and stopped in a bunch of cute stores including a Belgian salvation army were I got some genuine Belgian beer glasses and a shot glass for only 1 euro total. We Had dinner at cute restaurant and I had the best croque monsiuer of my life and Rachel tried mussels.

After dinner we ran to the train station and caught he next train the Brussels and hurried back to our hostel. This really cool guy who worked at the hostel organized this thing called a bar crawl, where a big group of people go from bar to bar and then end up in a club. It was SUCH a fun night. In our group we had a bunch of funny guys from Spain who were really lod and outgoing (and attractive I should add). There were also some funny girls from Spain in our group and two cool guys our age from Boston who were doing a eurotrip similar to ours. We all started in a small local bar where Rachel and I got this delicious local sweet beer and we met all the people who were Doug the bar crawl with us. Then we walked to the next bar which was next to the mannequin pis and we took this halarious group picture in front of it. By this point we were def befriending all he people in our group, and the spainiards were halarious and pretty drunk. At the 3rx bar we went to we had hhis local strawberry beer that was amazing and sweet. We ended the night in a small but def hoppin celctic club with a ton of young people and sticky floors. It was by far our funnest night of the trip so far, and we made a lot of friends.