Just checked my brothers flight and it left 3 minutes early!!! They get here at about 10PM which means they'll get to my flat around midnight....
Had a great time in Budapest, it was of course, a unique adventure! Here is a pic
I went with Farrah and a sorority friend of hers named Jennifer (who was fantastic by the way!, you always worry about travelling with people you don't know and it is so nice when they turn out well!) Well Jennifer had planned ahead and had a car waiting for us at the airport. We asked him where the atm was and he waited for Farrah and I to get some cash. I had checked the exchange rate before we left and it was about $1 for 200 hungary F's. On the Atm I went for the highest, trying to be quick, knowing it would be about $150 or so... Well it was 150,000 F's so I figured that was about $75 and would be fine... well the stupid atm wouldn't give me the money!!! So I tried 100,000 and that finally worked. Farrah asked what I got and tried it and it wouldn't give her 100,000 so she had to get 50,000. All was well and we went to our hotel (which was pretty posh!) I slept like crap and then we woke up. We booked a bus tour to take us around the city. It was completely pouring rain so we thought this would be a good way to get a feel of everything and check out what we wanted to see more of. Well the tour wasn't as good as we hoped due to the rain. The windows were all fogged up so we could barely see anything!!! Oh well... we saw enough. We then went to an ATM and Jennifer took out money, we asked how much she got and it was something like 10,000. Well I found that confusing, wasn't that only about $5??? OH NO!!! I had taken out $500!!!!! What a stupid idiot!!!!! Well that ended up being a big stupid joke of the weekend. Luckily I was able to pay for the room and a couple of meals and was able to use up the cash so I didn't have to add to my stupidity by having to change money in!
We had a lovely lunch with a mushroom soup (the menu said "just the way you like it!") It was outstanding! We expected a cream of mushroom but this was more like a minestrone or something with mushrooms in it and wow was it good! The rest of the meal was pretty good too. We then wandered around in the shops and stuff and then had dinner back at the hotel.
On Sunday we got up early and went to the Szechenyi Baths. Budapest is well know for its natural, hot mineral springs and they have many public baths built around them. Well Farrah had told me to pack a bathing suit and wouldn't you know it... I forgot it in the hotel! So Jennifer and I rented them.. (propably the weirdest thing I have ever rented, and I thought bowling shoes were bad!) It wasn't too bad and it was definately worth it! A great experience! It was pouring rain and the baths (massive pools) were outside so we were in these hot baths with cold rain. Absolutely beautiful!
We then had lunch with a friend of Jennifers that is living there and then did a tour of the Opera house. It was very beatiful. It makes me really look forward to seeing the one in Vienna. Farrah and I were talking about trying to get opera tickets for Vienna.... hmmm. we'll see.
The best part of the whole trip was after pouring rain all weekend, the sun came out on our drive to the airport.
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