Adventurous day in Brussels. 😳 So after a nice breakfast including, suprise, Belgian waffles, we headed to the city center to explore the city. Unfortunately, one of us (not one of the adults) realized she left her cellphone on the bus. After tracking down the next tour bus that came by, two of us spoke to the driver and he  looked up and contacted our bus driver and he actually found the phone on his bus!! He then turned it in to their central office. The driver we talked to then drove us to the next stop on HIS tour and dropped us off to one of his partner drivers on another route, who was heading back to the garage/office and he drove us there.  Yay, we got the phone back and that driver went on to drive us back to the Atomium (see previous post) where he called out to another driver on the original route and got us on his bus taking us back to the city center where we met back up with the rest of our group. Whew!!! The drivers who helped us out were so amazingly accomodating and friendly!!! What a wonderful experience after what could have been a horrible start for our first full day in Europe.

Once we met up with the rest of the group we had a late lunch at a restaurant in the central plaza. What a beautiful place. Buildings dating back to the 1690’s!!! The food and Belgian Beer was wonderful and our waitress Sarah, who was very sweet, was having a really bad day (a patron pulled a dine and dash right before we put our order in – what a jerk (keeping it PG)) but we actually got her smiling by the end of our meal!

Next it was back to the hotel for a bit of World Cup watching (Croatia over Argentinia – WHAT?!?!) then out for light tapas at a quaint little reataueant down the street from our hotel. A full day of multiple adventures!!!! Can’t wait to see what happens tomorrow!!!