The Natural Sciences Museum is closed on Mondays. This news would have been helpful before the kids and I walked all the way there after lunch today. It's only about one kilometer away, but that means nothing here. None of the streets head in a logical, geometric pattern, so you walk as though you live in an Etch-a-Sketch world, and invariably take twice as long to get anywhere as if you could have done it in a straight shot.
This was especially true on the way back. I never like to take the same way twice (who knows what amazing thing is hiding around the next corner?!) so we took an especially circuitous route back to our main street.
We got caught in another downpour, which only served to make us feel at home here. I cannot count the number of times we've gotten rained on in Brussels. It could be beautiful and sunny (rare) or gray and overcast (normal weather here). And the rain starts pelting down with no warning. But today the kids just laughed as they ran for cover under a tree and watched the rain drip down each other's faces -- they know it's par for the course here.
We managed to make it fun though, even though our afternoon plans were shot. We got a snack (life is always better when you are eating something yummy), and picked up some secondhand movie DVDs, plus some colouring books and coloured pencils. We'll head back to the museum tomorrow -- who knows what we'll see on the way there or back?
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