Mini Europe and Durbuy, Belgium

Last weekend when we were on our way to "Game Night" outside the city center we past a "restaurant" called Los Amigos. Scott thought about this place all week and couldn't wait until the weekend to go have mexican food. On Friday night, we found our way back to Los Amigo's and at this point I'm not being "Debbie Downer" just more "Susan Skeptical." We walk in and much to Scott's surprise (not mine) it's just a locals bar. We had one drink and quickly exited. Scott was extremely disappointed so we remembered that there was a mexican restaurant in Gent 30 minutes away that we had previously been to (not good though) or there was one in Oostende (about 20 minutes away) that we saw when Damon and Danielle were in town. We chose the Oostende one and it was "ok." They did serve the margarita's in a full size glass instead of a shot glass. At least Scott had his Mexican fix.

Saturday morning we got up and headed to Brussels. Anytime you are on the train to Brussels or driving on the interstate you see this large massive atom-like thing. I've been wanted to see it close up so we headed toward the Atomium (properly named!)

Close-by was an amusement-park-like-place called Mini Europe that I wanted to go to. It basically takes every country in the EU and replicates at 1/25 the size the major tourist attractions in the country. It was cute. That's about all I'll give it.

Scott asked people at work where a good day trip would be and they suggested Durbuy, Belgium. It was only about 1 1/2 hours from Brussels so we programed Durbuy into the navigation system and headed out. Durbuy is in the Ardennes section of Belgium which was previously described to us as the mountainous region. I'd put it more in the category of "green rolling hills." We did find Durbuy and much to our surprise it was a quaint little tourist city. It was right on the river so you could kayak or walk/bike along the river. All of the streets were lined with cobblestone (seriously uneven cobblestone) and lots of restaurants with tables outside to enjoy the nice weather.

For some odd reason it's not letting me label my pictures:
Photo 1: The Belfry in Brugge - Mini Europe with the large Atomium behind it.
Photo 2: The Reisenrad in Vienna - Mini Europe(Shan, we just can't get away from it!)
Photo 3: The Acropolis in Athens, Greece - Mini Europe
Photo 4: The city of Durbuy
Photo 5: The city of Durbuy