Brugge, Belgium

 
 Marc is an awesome husband!  I am not much of a homebody and he totally gets that. I enjoy my time home with the kids and I totally see the value in staying home sometimes but I get the "itch". :)  Marc came home on Friday and suggessted we find a Bed and Breakfast in Brugge and go for the night.  It is about 2 1/2 hours from here.  We found a room in about 10 min. online, booked it and headed out.  We figured this was a good trial run with the kiddos since this was our first hotel overnight in Europe. 

 A fun part of our night away was just hanging out.  We all gathered on the bed watching "Blue's Clues" which is Isaac's current favorite show along with the movie "Cars".   

 

Here are the girls on the bed and Ava was trying to steal Isabella's paci!

Here is Marc and Isaac at Breakfast.

This is funny because sprinkles (the kind that you might decorate a cake or cookies with) are big here.  You put them on bread and butter.  Isaac seems to love them and likes to pick them off one at a time and eat them. :)  He was eating chocolate ones here.

This is what the girls were doing during breakfast.  We were all up pretty early because of the rooster outside our window.  Roosters sound quaint and cute until you are woken up by one. 

This is the main square in Brugge.  It was a cold day but overall we had a good time.  Our bus (i mean stroller) works pretty well but Europe in general was not built for large strollers so we are always having a hard time getting in and out of places. We found a new place for Isaac to sit on the stroller...do you see him?

We went to a chocolate muesum and learned a few new things about chocolate.  These are chocolate beans in the picture and Isabella's little face poking out cracks me up!

Isaac is a HUGE chocolate fan!

We had to get creative as the day went on with Isaac.  He was getting tired and so we put him in a carrier on Marc's back and that seemed to work pretty well.

This picture downloaded kinda funny because it is from Marc's phone but this pic is from the end of our day.  We decided to drive out to the coast because Zeebrugge is a huge port and look around (its about 15 min. from Brugge).  Isaac was enjoying all the boats.

We then headed home and all the kids slept in the car (I may have taken a little nap too). Overall, it was good trip and we are learning that traveling with kids (especially really young ones) is fun but you have to have LOW expectations. :)