Germany week 26 Budapest, Hungary and a snowman

Germany  week 26   Budapest, Hungary and a snowman

Hello all,

  I am writing this as I sit at a hotel in Budapest Hungary, not a place that was on my list but the military had a trip so I said why not. I will send it when I get back to the house as I was not successful in accessing their free wifi in the hotel room- sometimes my virus protector just says no.  lol  Mindy and Crystal notice the picture of the hotel it is a Novetel but it was called The Palace—not like Biloxi but I still thought it was cool it was named the same. I have off tomorrow since it is a federal holiday-Presidents day.

The first of the week we had an early leaving which meant no cheer practice that day and we came in late which meant I got to sleep in. Gregg subbed both of those days so he liked it too.  Driving to work that late morning was a bit hairy and a couple of people did not make it because the roads were not plowed yet.  We are still coming on the autobahn so that hasn’t been a problem for us although there were two trucks that had to stop to put chains on their tires so we had to go to the side and climb by them but baby car made it yea!!

We made our first snowman this week see pictures below.  He was fun to make but only last one day=-since when I came home the next day to look at him a large chow dog jumped on him and knocked him down.  I told Gregg that dog killed my snowman. We figured he had gone after the sticks that we had put for arms. Chow dog killed Frosty  L

Budapest is lovely.  We saw many beautiful buildings you can see a lot of them in the pixs below.  I put a picture of the woman who welcomes people to the town.  She is a symbol of peace and was put there in 1947 after the world war to symbolize peace in Budapest.  I found out some interesting things about Budapest.  First of all one fifth of the population of Hungary lives in Budapest.  Budapest is divided into two sections Buda and pest. The Danube divides the city.  This weekend ice chunks were going down the Danube.  Some other interesting things about Budapest is that there were lots of fabric stores they make a lot of their own very detailed clothing.  Also there were a lot of big pipes for smoking they were in the window.  It looked like the big basket that the snakes come out of and the pipe was long and curly.  Don’t know what they’re smoking though. Lol

We took a three hour city tour and had a great time.  I have to admit that Budapest was not on my radar to visit but I am glad that we went.  There are a lot of casinos in Europe just about every town we visit we find some.  We tried our hand at gambling with the forint money.  We did pretty good made enough to buy all of the silly tourist stuff that I love. lol We ate on the Danube, Hungarian goulash soup of course it was delicious  We had that and two cappuccinos.  It came to 19000 Forints which is about 8 dollars.  To say the least they do not have the Euros; not because they don’t want it but because they cannot afford it.  The tour guide said that the average person in Hungary makes about 600 dollars a month.  Kind of sad.

With that I will close.

Have a great week.

Hugs from Germany,

Susan