Family Visit Part one: Mom and Dad!

Okay so on to the week of visiting from my lovely parents!! This is gonna be a short post because a) it was so long ago the details won't be as clear, and b) mom and dad, you were there! so you guys know what happened.
After Luxembourg and Germany, my parents came to visit me!! (after a romantic weekend in Paris!)- we met up on Monday and I stayed with them for two nights at this gorgeous hotel called Hotel Bloom- on Tuesday I had a half day at work so we took a walking tour of the Grand Place, the Palais Royale, and the Palais de Justice- Mom and Dad really got the Belgian tour because it rained the entire time! Mom did buy this awesome Euro umbrella, though. So after that we went to dinner for some moules and frites at a fancy restaurant, which was pretty delicious, but also nothiing special for the prices they were charging.
The next day I had to go SLAVING AWAY at work while Mom and Dad spent their time lounging about Amsterdam! From what I heard, they loved it. We met up on Friday in Bruges, where we spent a night there and did some more copious amounts of walking (Bruges is small, and also gorgeous, so it was fine). We ate at this delicious restaurant where I had escargot for the first time (so good!) and Dad had some delicious mussels he swore was from Galicia. We stayed in a small but pretty hotel room on the outskirts of Bruges (aka a ten minute walk from the center of the city).
The next day we stayed in Bruges for a couple of hours and then did some more Brussels touring- we had waffles (which weren't as good as the waffles from the stand, very sad) and then ate at Stokkel! After that, I had to say goodbye to Mom and Dad since they were going back to the hotel and were leaving super early in the morning. It was sad to say goodbye, but we had tons of fun and it was so super awesome to see them!
The next day, a few of us from the program went to Binche for the carnival- we didn't stay too long, but we got to see some ridiculous costumes, bought some crazy hats for ourselves (mine's a hat with a ram on it!) and threw tons of confetti. Fun times for all!
That's about it for Mom and Dad visit- up next, London!!