Let's take a trip to Budapest!

First off, apologies it's been so long since I blogged. So let's get straight down to the events of the last week!

My friends and I took a 7 hour bus to Budapest last weekend. Everything about the weekend was wonderful, apart from my poor math skills and therefore my overdrawn bank account. But despite the fact that I messed up the exchange rate and had to frantically e-mail my parents to put more money in my account, the weekend went smoothly and we enjoyed ourselves immensely. Friday morning (4:30 am...) my friend, Chris, and I trekked to the bus station. After a long and interesting trip, we arrived in Budapest and called the 8 other people we were supposed to meet up with.  The 10 of us gathered at the hostel to work out a game plan and we quickly decided that food was a necessity at the moment. Lucky for us, the indoor farmer's market type thing was still open, so we went to the 2 story building filled with raw meat, veggies, and traditional Hungarian food.

The rest of the day (and most of the weekend actually) was filled with wandering around Budapest. After all, one of the best ways to discover a city is to get lost, and I have a natural talent for getting lost..
Friday night we also decided to head to a bath house where we met up with a group of other AIFS students that were also in Budapest for the weekend.
Saturday we woke up bright and early to head to Parliament, but unfortunately they were already sold out by the time we got there. Instead, we went to a local park and had a little too much fun feeding the ducks and playing in the leaves. We even made friends with a wedding couple and their photographer..

We were wayyy to excited about the leaves! (From left to right: Kari, Me, Raila, Annie)

Then the guys got involved and chaos ensued.

Since our plan to spend the day at Parliament failed, we wandered upon a museum entitled "How we view the Finnish?" While we weren't completely sure why it was posed as a question, the museum was all about the Hungarian perspective of the Finns. Good thing we had our own native Finn with us! Raila led us through the exhibition explaining along the way what home looks like and why there was an entire exhibit devoted to scissors..


The trip was a resounding success and despite the fact that our legs were killing us the later half of the weekend, we had a blast along the way.

 

Definitely a must see place!! And the goulash was pretty good too ;]