Tara's Visit to Belgium

Tara's visit to Brussels was a success!
When she arrived on Friday (Nov 2), we spent her first day here exploring Brussels. We had fun doing some shopping, eating chocolate and walking around to see the sights.


On Saturday morning, we left for Paris. When we arrived, it was too early to check into our luxury hotel, so we locked our bags up at the train station and started our adventure. We spent the day visiting Notre Dame, the Louvre, Paris Eye (which i thoroughly enjoyed), Arc de Triomphe and anything else we came across on our travels. In the evening, we headed back to the train station to pick up our bags and headed to our hotel - Formule 1 (where their motto is "When you're asleep, our rooms look as good as anyone's). The hotel rooms are small, cheap and you share bathrooms and showers. For the minimum amount of time we spent at the hotel, it was a great deal!

On Sunday, we went to the Chateau de Versailles - Royal Palace for the King of France - and the home of Marie Antoinette. The grounds were beautiful and we had a great visit. This took up most of the day. The picture of us behind the trees is taken on the grounds. On Monday we went to the Picasso Museum and to the top of the Eiffel Tower. The top of the Eiffel Tower was better than I could have imagined (324m)!

By the time our train left on Monday evening at 10pm, we were all exhausted and ready for bed. We enjoyed our trip to Paris!

We went to Ikea on Tuesday, Tara went to the Atomium on Wednesday and on Thursday we went to Amsterdam. We had fun in Amsterdam - we went to the Anne Frank Museum (Tara and I have both recently read the 'Diary of Anne Frank') and saw all the interesting sites in this crazy city! The picture of us is at one of the pubs in the Red Light District.

On Friday we went to the De Vinci exhibit at the Koekelberg (large bascilica in Brussels). This was an amazing display and we were both impressed with what we learned and saw.

Before Tara left, she stocked up on chocolate and we went out for Belgian waffles! Dylan and I both enjoyed having her here and look forward to more visitors!