Boozapest

It was a beautiful sunny day when we woke up so we decided it was a prime day to walk around Budapest and go see the Danube River. So we just walked and walked for hours around town. We went shopping in the city center because the way Hungarian currency converts to American Dollars it works in our advantage. Every 215 forint is  $1 so I got a nice shirt for 800 forint so basically $4 - what a deal. Then we stopped at a little restaurant on the way home and Caroline and Amanda got a traditional Hungarian meal while I was a little less adventureous and got a pizza - but damn was it good.

Then after coming back and taking a little cat nap - we hung out with the hostel peeps and the hostel owner made us a hungarian dinner for $2. The people in this Hostel were absolutely amazing, not even just the employees the travelers were so fun and there were a lot of people who were very very long term and basically just lived in the hostel. It was a great atmosphere. So after dinner we got ready and started pregaming for the booze cruise on the Danube River.

When we got there, there were about 5 other hostels with double to triple the amount of people we came it. Once on the boat we all got a bottle of champagne. Granted that it was a little cold (but once your drunk you don't care) - the Danube River at night was so beautiful with Parliament and the Castles all lit up. The funniest thing about the booze cruise is they say there is this old Hungarian Myth that everytime you go under the bridge you have to kiss someone or else you will have 7 years bad sex. But who believes in old Hungarian myths anyways ;)

Then in the morning - let's just say it was rough morning. That top bunk will do it to you (throwback to sophomore year Quaderdays - holla Robin - sorry about your textbooks Alexa). So after looking so prime that morning we just hung around the Hostel for awhile watching tv and movies with everyone. That was actually really fun because I really got to know a lot of the travelers and their stories. It was cool though because hopefully I get to travel with them or to see them in the future like we talked about (Trent and Lein that means you - see you Brussels 2 weeks). Then we went with some people to get Langosh - which is described as a communist pizza - and it was just deep fried dough with whatever you wanted on it. I just got garlic sauce and cheese but the traditional one is with garlic sauce, cheese, onions, and sausage. It was delicious, cheap, and artery clogging all in one.

Then we went ice-skating and all I have to say, is granted I never became a Tara Lipinski, thank you momma for putting me in ice-skating lessons as a kid and for raising me in the Artic. Compared to the Australians and Amanda I looked like Michelle Fucking Kwan. We were ice-skating on the largest outdoor ice skating rink in Europe. It was amazing. Then on the way back Trent and I realized our shoes at no traction so we were slipping and sliding all over the places have competitions on who could go the furtherest. Despite what Trent says, I totally won - but I guess we will re-match if we ever get to Brussels. Also since it was snowing - it was the perfect packing snow so we had a snowball fight on the walk back and I only hit like two random strangers which it could've been worse and who doesn't love a good snowball fight? I will tell you who - people who don't have souls.

So then the rest of the night I just chilled out and watched some movies with some hostel peeps while everyone else went on a bar crawl and by judging everyone when they got back - I was pretty content with my decision to not crawl again.

One more to come.....

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