So Saturday night I went to the Fete de Wallonie, which is basically a full out, all day, all night, 4 day long (if not longer) party. I think it's a celebration of Wallonie, the French part of Beligium, but my impression is that for the majority of the population it’s really just a party for the sake of a party. I went with my family, wandering around among the three or four different stages with different bands playing at each. The streets inbetween the stages were blocked off for cars, and food stands and other fesitval type jewelry, clothing stands. At one of these I bought my first real Belgian waffle. I’d had waffles here with the family – but these were the street vendor, still hot, still fresh kind. It's different. And amazing. I can't even describe how heavenly - the dough was soft, almost melty and warm inside the glazed outer crust, and mine was slatherws with Nutella.... Wow wow wow I want another one so badly.
After an hour or two, around 10 o'clock, we headed to one of the bridges over the river that runs through town, to watch the fireworks. The city turned off all the lights in the general section of streets near the river where the fireworks would be, and the show began. The firework were accomanied by music - an interesting mix, from an old Belgian singer, to a popular modern Belgian rapper, to the Black Eyed Peas, to the old song that goes "Yes you're lovely..." and "Just the way you look tonight..", to the Abba song "Dancing Queen". It was a good show, and a nice night.