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Today we woke up in the most comfortable bed ever. I felt great! Jimmy felt . . . sick. Yep, at least one of us has to get sick on every international trip we take, and this trip Jimmy drew the short straw. A cold has been chasing him for a couple days, and today it finally caught up. 



I had heard him sniffling and sneezing all night, so I decided to go ahead and let him sleep in, and began making new plans for spending the day by myself. When he woke up there was a lot of angst on his part about how much of the day he wanted to participate in. We had a chocolate and beer tour planned for the late afternoon, so he decided to get ready, grab breakfast at the hotel, then decide if he wanted to sleep until the tour. After a shower, breakfast, and a little bit of encouragement on my part (which basically meant I promised him we could spend all morning at a museum) he decided he wanted to participate in the whole day.



First on the docket was wandering the royal quarter of Brussels, which included the royal palace and the royal museum of fine arts. The inside of the palace is closed to the public in the winter, but we snapped a couple outside pics and noted that the flag was flying over the palace, which <NAME> stated meant the king was somewhere in Belgium. 



Here’s a statue of Leopold II we saw on our walk to Royal Museums of Fine Arts.



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Statues on the walls



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId5.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId5.jpg)



We also saw some lovely trees with red berries.



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId6.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId6.jpg)



Royal place



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId7.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId7.jpg)



The Royal Museums of Fine Arts: Jimmy’s mothership in Brussels



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The Royal Museum of Fine Arts is actually made up of three museums: The Old Master’s Museum, The Fin de siecle, and the Magritte Museum. We started with the Old Masters. Normally I would want to spend about 20 minutes in the museum and Jimmy would spend hours. This time I came up with a little game that I think could become a spin off blog entitled Sheep Bottoms in Fine Art.



Here are some example:



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId9.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId9.jpg)



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId10.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId10.jpg)



To play the game you look closely at each work of art and discover any possible sheep bottoms. Then you document them in picture form.



Here are some other favorites from the old masters:



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId11.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId11.jpg)



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId12.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId12.jpg)


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Today we woke up in the most comfortable bed ever. I felt great! Jimmy felt . . . sick. Yep, at least one of us has to get sick on every international trip we take, and this trip Jimmy drew the short straw. A cold has been chasing him for a couple days, and today it finally caught up. 



I had heard him sniffling and sneezing all night, so I decided to go ahead and let him sleep in, and began making new plans for spending the day by myself. When he woke up there was a lot of angst on his part about how much of the day he wanted to participate in. We had a chocolate and beer tour planned for the late afternoon, so he decided to get ready, grab breakfast at the hotel, then decide if he wanted to sleep until the tour. After a shower, breakfast, and a little bit of encouragement on my part (which basically meant I promised him we could spend all morning at a museum) he decided he wanted to participate in the whole day.



First on the docket was wandering the royal quarter of Brussels, which included the royal palace and the royal museum of fine arts. The inside of the palace is closed to the public in the winter, but we snapped a couple outside pics and noted that the flag was flying over the palace, which <NAME> stated meant the king was somewhere in Belgium. 



Here’s a statue of Leopold II we saw on our walk to Royal Museums of Fine Arts.



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId4.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId4.jpg)



Statues on the walls



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId5.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId5.jpg)



We also saw some lovely trees with red berries.



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId6.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId6.jpg)



Royal place



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId7.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId7.jpg)



The Royal Museums of Fine Arts: Jimmy’s mothership in Brussels



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId8.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId8.jpg)



The Royal Museum of Fine Arts is actually made up of three museums: The Old Master’s Museum, The Fin de siecle, and the Magritte Museum. We started with the Old Masters. Normally I would want to spend about 20 minutes in the museum and Jimmy would spend hours. This time I came up with a little game that I think could become a spin off blog entitled Sheep Bottoms in Fine Art.



Here are some example:




[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId10.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId10.jpg)



To play the game you look closely at each work of art and discover any possible sheep bottoms. Then you document them in picture form.



Here are some other favorites from the old masters:



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId11.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId11.jpg)



[![picture]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId12.jpg)]({{ site.images }}/20171209/imagerId12.jpg)



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