The flight to Belgium was not too bad. It lasted about eight hours, but I slept as much as I could--about three hours. The in-flight movies, however... Those were bad.
One of the cool things I saw from the plane was a ship in the Atlantic Ocean that had this ridiculously bright light that lit up everything around it. In the vicinity of this ship was a bunch of smaller boats.
I think I also flew right over London, but I can't be certain.
I arrived in Belgium at about 7:30 AM local time (11:30 PM mountain time). There was a thin layer of fog over the area when we landed, and the sun was just barely beginning to rise.
Mindy met me in the airport. It was so nice to see her. We rode the bus and a tram back to her apartment.
After I dropped my stuff off at her place, we went to the grocery store, bought some Frosties (Frosted Flakes) with my euros, ate said Frosties, and then I walked with her to class.
While she was in class I just hung out in her school's computer lab where I looked up trains to Paris and wrote some e-mails telling everyone that I had made it safely to Belgium.
After her class, we took the bus downtown. We visited this old stone wall from medieval times. We visited Grand Place, which is basically at the city's center. We also visited Mannekin-Pis, which is a small statue of a little boy taking a piss. It's a fairly famous Brussels landmark, and people often dress up the statue in various outfits. This time, however, he was pissing in the nude.
We got great waffles from a place next to Mannekin-Pis.
While Mindy went to her evening class, I went to the grocery store and just hung out.
Later on in the evening, I took a shower and fell asleep faster than I ever have before.