Walking around Bruges + Asked hotel guy the night before about how to look for Brian’s name and he suggested the etymological book in the library + Amy drags Brian into the library and asks the librarian for help. Spent a while looking through etymological book of names in library. Didn’t find anything conclusive, but took pictures of some possible roots of the name. Tried to ask librarian to translate the Flemish description, but she didn’t give us too much information + Walked through market square + Then went to the Chocolate Story, a Chocolate museum! (they have a fry museum too, but we found out about that one too late). Brian learned a lot about chocolate that would have been very useful for his chocolate mold. Why don’t they just have this information on line??? + Then Lace Museum and Private church. Lace is insane… We have a lot of respect for any lace that is hand made. There was a demonstration room that we followed signs to find, but when we pushed open a door, we just see a bunch of elderly ladies sitting around chatting and holding spools on a pillow, we get nervous and walk all the way out to ask the ticket person if that was the right room, and she confirms and we walk back, feeling very awkward as we go into the room and they carry on as if we didn’t exist. We oggle at their crazy lace making skillz (yo). It takes probably six hours to make an inch by inch square. Maybe. + then walked to Chocolate line, famous for chocolate with crazy flavors (wasabi, chili, etc), got a chocolate assortment box, tasted, and were disappointed. They probably put the most boring chocolates in a box just for tourists We would have bought individual chocolates, but the lady didn’t seem to want to help us translate the Flemish signs + Walked through church of our lady, sat (it was nice) + We came out and it had started raining + Ran over to a carnival vendor (it was really just one ferris wheel) and got Belgian waffles. We had to get some before we left Belgium! Ate under the vendor awning to avoid the rain + walked back to hotel, napped + Dinner at Tom’s diner. Yum! (note to Brian’s friends from Rice: this is not the same place where you can get free frozen yogurt.)