Day 29 -

Today we left one host’s place for another's. Actually, it was the host that we missed staying with when we arrived due to the fact that we didn’t have a cell phone. We of course got a very late - early afternoon start - to travel what we thought, due to us getting so lost trying to find the place, would be a rather long journey back towards the city center. It turned out to be less than four miles and three turns away…we laughed a little at how silly we had been for getting lost so terribly. After doing some sightseeing on the way, we arrived to meet Sarah and Stephan. They offered us dinner and took us to get some famous Belgian beers for dinner and Belgian fries for a snack. We of course almost immediately asked about thrift stores, and it turned our that Sarah also has a passion for thrift stores and promised to take us to a really good one. The beer store that she took us to while Stephan made a Rockfort cheese cream sauce for pasta (which was delicious!) had over 400 different beers from Belgium to choose from. Needless to say we took a while deciding and ended up being rushed by the owner who wanted to close his shop for the night. Armed with a deadly arsenal of strong Belgian beers, we returned to eat dinner. Sarah and Stephan were fascinated to hear about our backward society and how mass ignorance has created resistance in America to improving our lives with ideas that viewed as simply humanity in their country. This topic has been a common theme among all our hosts, and it is somewhat embarrassing to have to try to explain how and why some people oppose ensuring that everyone is afforded basic human rights, but it seems to be a duty while traveling to ensure the rightfully confused onlookers that not everyone thinks that way and that we want it to change. We also talked about movies and music and exchanged a long list of movies with each other that we thought we should see; also the beers were really good. In short we had a great time.