Brugge

Looking down one of the canals in Brugge.

Well, nothing spectacular for the week.  We've kind of taken January easy.  Most of the interesting stuff we've done is local.  This morning, we loaded up and drove up to Brugge, Belgium.  The city has maintained a huge amount of its medieval architecture and layout.  The canals still run throughout the old sections of town.  When it's warm, gondolas move up and down the canals.  This morning, some canals had a thin layer of ice.  Obviously, none of us were getting on a boat with 30 degree temps.  Isaac did request a bath in the first canal he saw.  Thankfully, he asked, so I was able to head that one off before he pulled his pants off.

Other news, Emily bought chocolate molded in the shape of rats this afternoon.  I have no idea why.  She then insisted we take pictures of them before we ate them.  I refused to put the pictures on the blog.  (Seriously, she wanted to put the pictures on here.)

The restaurant we ate lunch in had a sensor over its door.  Every time the door opened it buzzed.  Isaac kept insisting that Emily apologize for passing gas when it buzzed.  Emily insists that I announce that she tried mussels for the first time in her life today.  She had one mussel from my plate.  Wait, I've been corrected.  She had two mussels from my plate.  She's apparently now an expert.