Final thoughts, final days

Today is my last day here in Europe. I know I kind of abandoned my blog a little bit during this last week, but to be honest I've been too busy to really put in the effort that it deserves, and that I feel you deserve as the person/people reading it! Thank you to everyone over the last three weeks for all the emails and Facebook messages, it made being so far away easier, especially during the few times it seemed a little bit lonely. I'm also amazed at how many people followed this blog! Today it reached 400 page views which is wayyyyyy more than I ever could have imagined... Is it really that boring back home??

So maybe now you want to hear about my last week in Brussels. Unfortunately due to the fact I ran away here a week earlier than planned, I had less money than originally anticipated and so had to skip my mini-trips to Amsterdam and Krakow. All that means is I'll have to come back again! So instead I explored more of Brussels. This week I had much less of a touristy time and experienced it more like a local, going to the market, daily walks with Maddy, evenings drinking and socializing in the cafe and even one night making dinner for Catherine and Kevin (spaghetti a la Kathleen!). I know, that last one is pretty shocking for those of you that know me well enough!
 

Yesterday I took the metro to a part of Brussels I had never been to before, Uccle, and walked around for a few hours. I ended up at a giant cemetery were there were about 50 people gathered around taking pictures. It turns out this is a famous cemetery (famous in the Brussels sense of the word) known as Dieweg where Herge, also known as Georges Remi, the creator of Tin Tin is buried. Apparently he is a pretty big deal being originally from Brussels. I then went into the cemetary to take a few touristy pictures but it was very very creepy. Many of the tombs have cracked and you can see inside them in places, and to be honest I've seen enough Exorsism movies to know better than to want to stick around in there for very long.

Today I took Maddy on our last morning walk through the park. The same one I described in my first blog as the Red Riding Hood park, although now it feels more like the Harry Potter forest! The rest of my day will be spent packing and getting ready to go home tomorrow and then I'll take the metro downtown to meet Catherine when she's done work for a final shopping spree (for her... I'm poor remember?)

But now the sun is finally out, of course as soon as I'm about to leave its getting warmer here, so it's time to get on with my day. I can't wait to see everyone when I get home and give them the less censored version of my trip! Well what did you expect? My mom is reading this blog... I can't tell too many crazy stories! Plus what would I have to talk to you about if I wrote everything here?

I hope to see you for a drink at The Pint downtown on Friday night!

Lots of love
Kathleen

 "So buy me the ocean to take me anywhere but here..."