Okay, so I am not going to make one huge master-post for all of my travels in Brussels and Amsterdam because I decided that would be way too long. So for your reading pleasure I will essentially break it down by day. Here we go!
So we all met at Sarah's at 12:30 on Monday and walked to the bus station where we took a bus to the airport. At the airport we found the place where we needed to get our tickets stamped since we are foreigners. Now the strange thing about this airport was security, you kinda just walked into this warehouse type thing, so we stood for about 5 minutes trying to figure out if we should just walk in or not. I voted yes, Grace wasn't sure, Sarah voted no. So we waited until someone else just walked in and then followed her. When we finally got checked in at the gate I had a bit of an interesting ordeal. The airline we were flying is very strict about its carry on sizes. My bag apparently looked like it wasn't the right size so they made me put it in this basket thing to prove that it would fit. My bag went in just fine, but then I couldn't get it back out...awkward...it turns out my wallet was preventing it from coming out. (The point is that it fit though!!) Getting on the plane was weird too, they pretty much just corralled us all into a room and then opened the door. It was a free for all to get on the plane...very weird.
We arrive in Brussels early and grab a bite to eat at the airport before attempting to find the free shuttle between our hotel and the airport. Once we had eaten we went outside to find the shuttle (or navette in French). It was snowing and it was super pretty but we were tired and just wanted to get to the hotel. We couldn't find the shuttle so we asked the information desk lady and she said we had to call them to come get us. So she gave us the number, we thought our cell phones were going to work in Brussels, but apparently they don't. So we tried the payphone but the number kept saying it was busy and we were wasting money so we finally went back to the information desk lady and asked her to call for us. She had us the shuttle in less than 30 seconds. We get in the "shuttle" which is actually just a taxi and not free at all. (8 Euros for a 3 minute ride!!) But we finally make it to our hotel. We walk up to the desk and they can't find our reservation...That's right we didn't have a reservation! At least not at that hotel. The hotel we booked is the exact same hotel, different airport in Brussels (what city has two airports anyway?) We ended up having to stay the night there because it was cheaper than trying to get to the other hotel.
So now all our plans are a mess and we had to rework everything! I won't go into the details but it wasn't fun at all.
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