My winter break europe trip part7

 

December 25th 2022 Sunday Brussels 


Today was Christmas so we slept in till 10:00. Since it was Christmas most of the places were closed 

luckily the day before we had gone shopping and got the simple necessities. So for breakfast we had some

store-bought sandwiches. Since we did not have anything planned and we were running a bit low on 

clothes we decided to do the laundry. My parents loaded a suitcase with the clothes so they would be easy

to carry to the laundromat. I did not feel like going so my parents said that they would go and put all the 

clothes into the machines then one of them would come back and stay with me and one would stay with 

the laundry. After they left I read a few chapters from the book surrounded by idiots then I played solitaire. 

After 30 minutes or so my mom came back. Then after an hour or so we went back to help fold and bring 

back the laundry. When we got there the clothes were just going into the dryer. But the dryer luckily did not 

take very long and soon I was helping to fold the clothes. Once we finished we took the suitcase back to 

the hotel room. After we dropped off the suitcase we went to a cathedral. On the way we saw that the 

Grand Place was having a light show where they played music and lights and patterns were projected 

onto the buildings. Once we watched one show we went to the cathedral we looked around inside it then 

we headed back. On our way back we took some photos at a park that was lit up for Christmas. Then we
watched another light show and went back home. For dinner we had a bit of food in the refrigerator. We 

stepped outside and picked up some Thai food and had both what was in the fridge and the Thai food. 

While we waited for the food we watched another show. After we ate we went to bed 

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