We're back...and eating Chocolate!

After our 4 week trip to the States it was nice to be back in our lovely apartment and our own beds again.  We had a great trip, but missed our life and our friends in Brussels too...even if it meant coming back to cold, rainy weather...boo :o(  And we're finally starting to get back to our usual routine and our "Wild About Wednesdays"...although now we're switching it up some and doing some different days too so some of our friends in school can join us.

Last week we had an invite to a friends house for Halloween that we just couldn't pass up....Autumn just had to wear the adorable peacock costume my cousin made...so we opted to skip our Wednesday activity and just hang with friends.  It was a blast...especially because she had all sorts of tasty treats...and my favorite potato soup...yum!  Autumn was having too much fun playing for me to get a good picture of her costume, but here are a couple so you can get the idea.

But this week we got back in to the swing of things and decided to pay a visit to the Museum of Cocoa & Chocolate!  A chocolate museum...what could be better?  It is located just off the Grand Place in downtown Brussels so it made for a pretty easy day too.

I'm not going to lie...the museum itself is a little underwhelming...I mean how much stuff can you have relating to chocolate.  There was some interesting information about cocoa and how it made it's way to Europe...and they had some fun things like this huge boat filled with cocoa beans...

Of course the "Do Not Touch" Sign on the cocoa beans and these chocolate clothes and hats meant nothing to Autumn and Brooklyn...yikes!

Probably the most interesting part of the tour was watching the chocolatier making pralines...looks like a good job to me.  Although she swore she never sticks her fingers in to test it :o)  Ya right...ha!

Autumn and Brooklyn's favorite part was probably the fan in the corner...haha!  Oh well, as long as they weren't getting in to trouble we were happy.

But there were two things that made this whole trip worth it...the place smelled of delicious chocolate the second you walked in the door...so we got to smell the yummy deliciousness the whole visit...and they give you free chocolate!  Yum!!

How could you not enjoy a place like that!! We'll be back again next week with more adventures...but first we're headed out on the road again.  So check back soon for the highlights of a trip to Spain & Morocco!!