They have great chocolate.

We had a pretty good day visiting Brussels. Krip will tell you that Belgium is probably the most boring country in the world and Brussels being it's capital, therefore must be the most boring city in the world. I wouldn't go that far; however, it's not that exciting of a city either. That's not to say we didn't have a good time.

We did a hell of a lot of walking up and down steps, and took the subway to different parts of the city. One thing we did notice and we didn't know why was that no one seemed to pay to get on the subway (except for tourists), so like the saying goes "when in Rome" or in Brussels as the case may be, we didn't pay after our first trip on the subway either.

We did have a wonderful lunch and a bottle of excellent wine to go with it. We had been stopped earlier by a maitre de, who had asked if we were English, and while asking, invited us to eat at his restaurant. We told him that we weren't ready to eat, but we would come back. Don't think he thought we meant it. However, much to his delight, we did return, and got a complimentary drink out of it.

Went to a really nice museum, I would write about it, but I can't tell you what it was about, except to say we saw some paintings, silver, porcelain, and statues...there was nothing in English to tell us what it was.

We went to see the famous Mannekin Pis. I don't know why, but it didn't even occur to me that this little tyke was only 24" inches tall. He wasn't naked as he is normally. I think some guild was celebrating something or another and dressed him for the occasion. At any rate, while we were photographing the little "pisser," a group dressed just like he was came around the corner, each taking a glass of beer, and proceeded to sing songs. Very comical and very weird.

All in all, we had a nice day. It was a very long-ass day. We've done Brussels. I prefer London anyday of the week. But it was all right.

Did I mention that Krip accidently deleted all the pics we took of the trip yesterday while downloading them? Said it didn't matter cause nothing really stood out to tell you what city you were in except for the Little Wee Boy on the corner of one of the streets around the The Grand Place.