Some of the really cool old buildings from Brugge, Belgium.

The boat tour we took around Brugge gave us a good view of the city and took us under lots of bridges.

One of the beautiful views from the boat tour.

There were lots of beautiful swans on the canals. From the boat tour we could see the backs of many of the medieval homes.

As we wandered around town, there were some amazing buildings, churches, etc.

Here's one of the small pubs in town.

A view of one of the canals from one of the bridges in Brugge.

The buildings went right down and into the water. It kind of reminded me of Venice a little.

Ian, Megan, Ashley on the boat tour.

Everyone but me posing on one of the bridges.

7-28-10 Wednesday This morning we got up early and made it to the ferry heading back to France. Our final destination tonight is the Netherlands, but we have to get to France first, then go through Belgium. We made it onto the ferry OK and I got a couple of cabins, even though the trip was only about 2 hours. We were all pretty tired (especially Kindra) and the cabins had beds you could lay down and take a nap on. We got to France and the kids were hungry, so we ended up hitting a McDonalds when we got off the ferry. We headed to Belgium with the idea to stop in Brugge. There is a Belgian waffle place in downtown Salt Lake City near Pioneer Park and the owner there is Belgium. He said if you get the chance you have to go to Brugge, and he was right. Brugge is a really neat place. We took a tour around the city on a little boat through the canals. When we got on the boat that holds about 20-30 people, the boat guide asked us what language and where we were from. When I said near Salt Lake City, he said he had relatives in Roy, Utah, but then I didn’t get a chance to chat with him any more. The tour around was really cool and the place is very quaint and pretty. After the boat tour we strolled around for awhile and found a neat antiques store that had lots of cool stuff. We ended up finding a painting/print and Kindra and I both loved, so we ended up buying it, even though it was going to be a pain to get back home. It was framed, and there was no way to take the print/picture out of the frame. We walked a little more and bought some Belgian chocolates. Kindra especially got a kick out of the naughty ones they had. I had a chocolate covered pistachio marzipan bar that was really good, but Brecken ate almost all of it. We headed to the Netherlands and traveled on some really neat back roads through some of the countryside. A long day, but Brugge was one of my highlights of the trip.