Ghent and Introducing K-Rizz

I had my first waffle in Belgium! It was so so delicious, but really very sweet. April and I split one, which was more than enough sugar for the day. It had chocolate on the inside, so each bite was filled with ooey gooey goodness.

yum

We were trying to cram in all the wonders of Belgium into one day for April since she was leaving so soon, so we went out to get a lunch of frites and beer. So nutritionally balanced, no?

In Belgium, every beer that you order has its coordinating glass with the beer's logo on it, so when you order a Kwak, you get this super cool glass and wooden holder, as seen below.

Cool, huh? The wood part is the handle, so you grab that cylindrical part to drink it. A Kwak is really strong, so after one beer I was a little more giggly than usual. And I may have tripped... but cobblestone is really hard to walk on in heels in general!

Then that night we went to Delirium, the bar with 2000+ beers as a farewell-drinks-get-together and ran away from men. I don't know why, but Brussels has a lot of men! They hang out in hordes too. Gaggles and gaggles of men everywhere!

More kwoks! None for me though. The cider was really good though!

On Thursday, April and Jane went to Ghent for the day. It's a really cute town, but I'm glad I'm not spending a whole weekend there as I had planned. We banged out the essentials in a short day.

There are castles and cathedrals everywhere! I wish people took as much making buildings today as they did before.

This is the inside of one of the cathedrals. Really pretty, right? But nothing compared to the Catedral of Toledo, sorry. That one's only the 3rd biggest one in the world, anyway!

And in my tourbook (I hate being a tourist but oh well) it mentioned these walls that the town of Ghent designated as "Graffiti Wall" and allows people to graffiti as much as they want in this one alleyway. They hoped that it'd keep people from graffiti-ing elsewhere and ruining the adorable little town, and I think it worked? Either way, it was really cool!


SO COOL! I wanted to graffiti too, but I only had a blue ballpoint pen. And I thought that writing "Kristie was here" would be a little lame.

We're TUFF.

And this finally gave me the opportunity to make my rap album cover!!

Introducing K-Rizz and her hit new single, "Thug Life"--coming soon.
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