BUDAPEST ♥

February 2-6

Once the Vienna excursion was over, Maddie, Lauren, Emily, Corey, Mitchell and I left the hotel and went to a café in the mall before catching our train to Budapest. I ended up talking to Corey the whole time while the others finished up their math homework. About fifteen minutes before our bus was departing, we decided to go get some food from the grocery store thinking we would have enough time. When we tried to make our way to the bus stop, we couldn’t find it. This led to franticly running around and trying to figure out where to go. Finally we spotted the door that had the bus logo, and we got there right on time. I ended up sitting next to Ibk and watching the Lorax for the couple of hours we were on the bus. When arrived, everyone was exhausted so we walked a couple of miles to the AirBnB. Shortly after, Emily and I got settled into our room and fell straight to sleep. We woke up the next morning and got ready to go to the szechenyi baths. This was surprisingly fun once we disregarded the crowd of half naked people surrounding us. We had a routine of relaxing in the large, hot pool located outside in the cold, running inside to the sauna, taking a dip in the freezing cold pool to refresh ourselves, and then repeat. After the first few times, we discovered the steam room and the hot/cold showers. This turned out to be the best part. Lauren and Maddie finally made it after searching for bathing suits. By that time, us four were ready to head back to the AirBnB since we had been there for about three hours. We got ready and then hiked up the hill to see the beautiful city’s night-lights. Before long, it was time for us to head out and meet up with Alwin. We had planned on going to the haunted house he had been raving about for the past three weeks. Long story short, he’s a fail and we all decided that we weren’t going to go. He then decides to take us to ‘the best burger place’. This was also an epic fail lol; it was average. We went to meet Alwin’s brother, Allen, and his friends. We chatted a bit, went to the grocery store, and then headed back to the AirBnB for an early night so we could wake up for the sunrise.

We woke up around 6 and headed up the hill. The view was gorgeous even though the clouds were blocking the view of the sunrise. We walked around, saw a nice church, the Sandor Palace, grabbed some breakfast, and then to the Hungarian National Art Gallery in Buda Castle. In the afternoon we toured the beautiful parliament building. We grabbed some Greek food for lunch, walked to Heroes square, and then to Margaret Island to wonder around. We went to take some pictures across from the lit up parliament building. For dinner, we met up with Maddie and Lauren again and ate Goulash. The next morning we woke up at 4 am to catch our flight. We walked to our bus stop, see it pulling up, and immediately figure out that the stop was around the corner. We then proceeded to full out sprint to the bus—good thing or we would have probably missed our flight. We made it to the airport, and I thought I had lost my passport. After unpacking my entire bag, I found it at the very bottom of my bag.  Fortunately, we all managed to make it safely onto the plane. Once we arrived, the majority of the group took a bus back, but Alwin and I took the train instead. We chatted about random stuff and exchanged stories from Budapest. This was also the first time he let me listen to his mixed tape---ahhh this was killerrr ;) We made it back to Bonn, but I missed physiology class since we were running late. Thankfully Wasser understood, and I borrowed a classmates notes. Later that day we had some other classes and an enmodes meeting. The rest of the week was class and life in Bonn as usual, but Karnaval starts Thursday… something, I’ve heard, will be super fun!