Yesterday we took a morning train to Antwerp! And one of the things that I'd heard was a must-see in Antwerp was the train station, so that was convenient. It was absolutely gorgeous, so I took about a million pictures of it. I've never seen such a pretty train station!
This is what we saw right when we got off of our train, so I was already impressed.
Then it got even more impressive once we went through the doorway by the tracks.
And then there was a wooly mammoth... I don't know why.
But back to the beautifulness!
So pretty...
And here's the outside of it!! Can you believe this is a TRAIN STATION??
Then we went and checked in at our B&B, which was only about a 10 minute walk from the train station. The owners of the B&B were so sweet, and we loved our room! It had a nice bedroom with a HUGE bathroom, and then off of the bedroom we had our own sitting room with a dining room table, couch, and TV! Crazy. And they said that in the morning they would bring us breakfast at any time we'd like and set it up on our dining room table. So, I'll skip ahead with the pictures really fast and show you what breakfast looked like! Breakfasts in Belgium consist of bread, cheese, ham of some sort, yogurt, an egg, orange juice, and coffee. It's the same everywhere (just different cheeses and breads), and it appears it's the same in the Netherlands too!
Here was our breakfast in the morning! Quite a spread. There's scrambled eggs, yogurts, breads, cheeses and ham, coffee, OJ, a big ol' slab of butter, and two jams. Oh and kiwi and pineapple.
After we got all settled in at our B&B, we started exploring Antwerp! The downtown area was beautiful, and we made our way over to the historic area. We only had a few things that we REALLY wanted to see, and other than that we just wanted to explore and see what looked cool. I badly wanted to see the Botanical Gardens, because they have some cool statues, etc there... And then we also thought it'd be fun to stop by De Vagant, which is a bar that specializes in Belgian gins (it's called jenever). The Belgians are known for their beer, but they're also super proud of their gins. McGee likes some gin, so he gave one of Antwerp's local gins a try. Unfortunately, he did not like it...
Some cool buildings.
More pretty buildings...
Kevin sipping on some gin (but no juice... like the song... Get it?). I took one little sip too and I thought it was absolutely disgusting (but I think that of all gin... ).
Cool statues in the botanical gardens!! It was tough to get a good picture, because you couldn't get too close or you'd be standing on head...
A cute little building in the botanical gardens.
A pretty building out on the street! Everywhere you turned, there was another beautiful building.
See?? ANOTHER beautiful building.
Then we took the long ol' walk over to the MAS museum. We didn't really have time (or the stamina) to do a proper visit, but we'd heard that you could take escalators to the top of the museum for free, and the views were amazing. So, we wanted to do that for sure! Unfortunately, it was kind of foggy and misty by this point, so we were guessing the views wouldn't be as spectacular as they could be.. But we figured we should check it out, especially since it had escalators so we didn't have to hike up stairs!
The MAS museum was really the only modern looking building in the area! It was super cool though.
This was the best view from the top I thought. SUCH beautiful buildings!
And now we're in Amsterdam!! I'll do a proper post on Amsterdam tomorrow, but I just thought I'd take a moment to show you how we spent our Thanksgiving meal. We had a very nice dinner (duck for McGee, and steak for me... both were quite delicious), and drank some nice beers. We had a very relaxing evening, after a super busy day!! I'll post tomorrow about the fun of Amsterdam. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
Cheers! Happy Thanksgiving!!
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