In Belgium the equivalent to Black Friday is the Day after New Years...I guess it is whatever day of the week it happens to fall on. This year it was Saturday (yesterday).
All the stores opened early and the girls and I were out about 9 to see what was going on. There were already a lot of people out and about not to mention that it was also the normal day for the the street market.
STILL colder than hell (hmmm...guess hell is supposed to be hot.) Okay, colder than I could ever imagine walking around in for hours at a time...but that is what I'm doing.
So we notice that the line of cars going into the underground parking garage is many blocks long and yet the digital sign over the entrance says "Complet", in other words, "Full". I'm wondering how long it took for those people to find parking. No wonder the crowds in the stores seemed a little irate.
Anyway we milled around for a few hours and managed to make a couple of purchases at drastically reduced prices.
Then Claire went to meet some of her Belgian friends for ice cream (I don't even want to think about eating ice cream) and Sarah and I went off to the street chinese food vendor and ate potsticker like things in the very light snow. (Yeah, we're crazy too.)
We then spent a couple hours relaxing in the room. When Claire finished with her friends she came to the hotel and she and Sarah went out to get Claire's hair cut and I met them later for middle eastern food...pita type stuff. Afterwards and amaretto and then back to the room.
All in all a quiet (but nice) day for us.
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