Giggles in Ghent

Marty and I visited Ghent with four of the Germans (Julian, Bastian, Alex and Sarah). Ghent is the third biggest city in Belgium just north west of Brussels. It's a LOVELY old medieval city known for it’s canal and university. It was only 30 min away on the high speed train and my favorite part was the canal!! We sat by a canal for a while and I could have spent an entire day just sitting there watching the small boats go passed.

We had such a great time with the Germans… they are so much fun! We got there early in the morning so we made a coffee and munchie stop at McDonald's. Especially cause some of them needed some recovering from the Irish Pub we went to last night.

We be-bopped around town then had lunch at Pizza Hut. I know, McDonald's and Pizza Hut: REAL local. It was their choice but I didn't mind –sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. The Pizza Hut part of the day was a really fun time. We were there forever cause we ordered the all you can eat buffet. By the end of it I had pizza coming out of my ears! But it was hilarious cause we ALL had a laughing attack that lasted a good 10 minutes or more. Our laughter carried all throughout the restaurant. We laughed on the top of our lungs and held our torsos from the ab burn. Reason of laughter? Marty and his ridiculous/indecisive ways of course!

(Alright Marty, I know you read my blog so get ready cause I'm about to give you shit :P )

For some reason he decided not to eat at Pizza Hut and watched the rest of us eat. But of course wanted a bite when we were all done. After eyeing my last untouched slice of pizza he voiced he wanted to ‘take it somehow’. But he made such a big deal out of it cause he didn’t want the waiter to see him eating pizza and make him pay for the whole 8 euro buffet. He was so terrified of the waiter catching him, he looked around with suspicious looks in fear that every single waiter in the place was starring at him. He tried so hard to be discrete but it was just the opposite. We were all like ‘dude just take the pizza, nothing’s gonna happen’. But he didn't take the advice and made a speedy move; in his mind he was robbing a bank. Instead of cutting the pizza into pieces or taking bites (like a normal person would) he shoved the ENTIRE slice of pizza in his mouth at once. Yea, REAL discrete.

Little did Marty know everyone at the table was watching him. As soon as Marty shoved it in his mouth they all burst out into laughter in reaction to the face Marty made while struggling to shove and fit the whole slice in his mouth. I didn’t see Marty since I was sitting next to him but I started cracking up cause of everyone else's reaction to him. I couldn't’t stop laughing cause they were laughing so hard. So we're all cracking up and Marty’s mouth looks as though its about to burst (not obvious at all). Then we started to laugh at the idea of the waiter actually passing by the table and questioning guilty Marty if he had the buffet and Marty responding with wide-eyes, a mouthful of pizza, pepperoni hanging out of his mouth and sauce on his cheeks shaking his head in denial of the fact that he had any pizza

The laughter would stop then we’d pick up again. It was great.