We landed in Brussels at 10:45 am. We got off the plain and went through customs pretty easily. There was a little line but not too bad. Then we went over to baggage claim. My Delta app was showing our bags made it to NYC, but not that they had made it onto the flight since there was only 30 minutes from when we finally made it to the gate and our next plane left. So we found another line to wait in to find out about getting our bags delivered to us. That took about 60 minutes standing in line waiting since there was only 1 person working. We finally got all our information dropped off and left the airport. We were told someone would bring our suitcase one it arrived.

We caught the train to the city and started walking to the apartment. We had started in the correct direction and then got a little off but finally made it to the location. I hadn’t gotten my wifi working yet, so I was trying to follow the dot on my phone and make sure we were going in the right direction. I got distracted by the flowers down a street and started taking us in the wrong direction, but we found some places we were looking for so it was all good.

After we found our place and dropped off our backpack we decided to head out and grab a late lunch. By now it is almost 2pm, so we don’t want to nap or eat too much. We passed several Waffle places on the way to our Flat, so we decided to head back and stop in at one of them.

Since we were low on clothes we knew we needed at least a shirt, so we could get some clothes washed to wear again tomorrow. We stopped at a souvenir place and found some shirts 2 for 20 Euro that would fit the bill. Then we decided to start walking again to explore. As we were walking we saw the Chocolate Museum , so we decided to check it out. For 11 euro for adults and maybe 9 Euro for kids we were given a piece of chocolate and head set to start the tour.

There was a ton of information about the process of getting the cocoa, growing the beans, how chocolate became what it is today. There was almost too much information, but it was really cool. There is an entire section on the cups used to drink the chocolate, contained to make the chocolate drinks, so much information.

After we finished there we started back on our mission to find the fountain for Manneken Pis.

We decided to head back to the Flat to relax for a little while and the decide on dinner, so we could call it an early night. We decided to just eat at on the places on our street since we didn’t have to go very far and we knew they opened early for dinner.

After dinner we went on a mission to find some laundry soap, we didn’t need a lot because I have tons in my suitcase! We found a little grocery store and had fun looking at all of the different items they had. There was pepperoni pizza Doritos. Several different brands of chips that had Paprika chips. The store only had large containers of laundry soap so we found a laundry mat to get a single. Then we headed back “home” and looked at different shops along the way. Tons of things to check out tomorrow and so many places to eat and so little time!!!