Well it looks like our fun trip to Brussels on Thursday is not going to happen.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34896125
If you had asked me before, I never would have thought Belgium would be a target for terrorists!! I am super annoyed and disappointed, as we were really looking forward to the trip. While we don't want to let the terrorists win by living in fear and never traveling anymore, I don't want to have to deal with the hassle of delayed flights, closed stores and restaurants, and maybe even a cancelled Christmas Market. Not to mention none of us really want to get blown up anyway.... Our friends who live there said school has been cancelled, most of the stores and restaurants are closed, and a few hotels were on lockdown yesterday, so it's best if we stay away! We were able to cancel our hotel room, but are having more trouble with the flights - we want to just change our destination, and maybe go to Dublin or Munich instead, or even just stay in Frankfurt where our layover is - but Lufthansa is not letting us. The only choice we have is to reschedule the dates, or we lose all our money. We can't go next week because Mike is away on business, and the following week is getting too close to Christmas. Plus there is no guarantee that all of this will be resolved by then anyway. Now we are scrambling around trying to come up with an alternate plan, maybe we will just take a drive down to the mountains. We considered driving to Vienna, we have already been to that Christmas market (it was our favorite), but it was 5 years ago and I would be happy to go back. Unfortunately we can't find a hotel room. Ugh, this is a total bummer. I'm really depressed because we have been to a Christmas market for the past 5 years and it's been such a great tradition to get us ready for the Christmas season. Thanks for ruining our holidays you jerks!!
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