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| looking through the album Rob's dad made us |
Hard to believe, but we have been married for a year! Our anniversary was December 3rd and we decided to spend it in Brugge/Bruges/Bruge depending on which sign you see or which book you read. It is pretty safe to say that most people here like Brugge better than any other city in Belgium. We decided to drive since we chose a hotel that wasn't in the city center. Normally we would stay in the middle of everything but we both loved this hotel based on photos and reviews and it was cheaper. Booking.com is the best site for hotel prices and reviews. We stayed at the Vander der Valk Hotel, it was amazing even if the money we saved staying outside of the city center was spent on the taxi ride home...
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| hotel room, amazing for Europe |
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Finally used our champagne flutes since we forgot at the wedding!
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We made a tentative plan to do the brewery tour and the bell tower. Neither happened. After we started walking around and discovered they had Christmas market, beautiful shops and multiple restaurants we decided that was more appropriate for the time of year and we can save the "tourist" stuff for visitors.
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| Where we got our Gluhwein, Christmas coffee and hot cocoa from. Multiple times. |
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| One of many beautiful storefronts and turned out to be our favorite shop. Javana. |
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| Watching the ice skaters in the middle of the market |
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| favorite food of the trip at a bar called 't Brugs Beertje which was recommend by our friend Linda Elbow, delicious cheese and awesome atmosphere, can't want to go back |
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| and the Christmas beers to go with the cheese, of course |
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| bell tower we planned to go up. If you have seen movie "In Brugge" you will know of this bell tower. Another day, another trip. |
The one "touristy" thing we did decide to do was the Ice Magic exhibit they have each year. Its basically a big freezing (or below) tent with incredible ice sculptures in it. Rob was more excited to do this than I was but it was actually pretty neat.
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| This guy was HUGE |
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| Rob coming down the ice slide |
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| frozen but smiling by this point |
In between the eating, drinking and walking we finished our Christmas shopping...the earliest I have have been finished and we all know Rob has never started before December 23. The past year has been quite a ride. We found out we were moving to Belgium about a month after our wedding, went to Missouri about 25 times before we left and now we have started our European explorations! I have never claimed this transition to Europe to be easy but I can't imagine doing it with anyone else.
To Rob: Prost! To many more years of not knowing what tomorrow will bring but as long as I have you, I know it will ok.
To my readers: Don't worry I am done with the mushy stuff.
Now, on to the next thing to celebrate...Rob's birthday! Stay tuned.
Also, Happy Birthday to my MIL Nancy! Hope its wonderful! We love and miss you!
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