I just spent two awesome days in Brussels, Belgium. Brussels is a truly unique city. Very different from Paris. If I could use one descriptive word it would be "colorful". While Paris' buildings were monochromatic (all a shade of off-white), Brussels' building were bright and multi-colored. It's a very ethnically diverse city. After getting up at 5:30 to make a 7 a.m. train, we took the high-speed Thalys to a gigantic multi-station town (?) called Lille...

Wellll things didn't go quite as planned today! We woke up at about 9:00 a .m. Normally that would be too early, but thinking "I'm in Paris" really gets you out of bed. Both of our legs were sore from all of the walking yesterday, but we looked forward to everything! We started off the morning by going to get breakfast. A market was set up right outside our hotel, which had all of this amazing fresh produce, purses, scarves, and other things.I had the ...

So. I'm hanging out in my quaint hotel room in Paris! It's midnight, the window is open and the breeze feels amazing. I can hear the voices of the partying crowd right outside our room but it doesn't bother me. We are on the 5th floor (which by European standards = windy floors that are more like 1.5 stories each - no elevator!), and if you look out the window you can see the lovely streets. My flights went off without a hitch! First Dallas to Detroit, then to A...

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