Kate and I had an amazing time in Budapest this weekend! We left on the 3:20 bus and got to the train station, grabbed our ticket, and hopped on the train as it was basically pulling out of the station. We had a layover in Foligno, where we both enjoyed the delicious yogurts. After, we took the train to Roma Termini and then had a little bit of time before taking the Leonardo da Vinci train to the airport. When we got to the airport we knew we were a little pressed for time, so we followed the signs for terminal C. We finally found where we needed to check in, but the check in man was hitting on us, and he was wasting time. He kept saying how his mom was calling, and he would pick up the calls and talk to her. So finally he gave us our tickets and was like wow you are late. Thanks buddy. So we got in line for
security, which took forever. Kate went through first, and I followed. After our bags had been screened, a man came over to Kate and asked if she was the one “with the liquids”. So he asked both of us to follow him, and we took out our 3-1-1 bags, properly done like the airport asks. He looked them over, and said “are these all the liquids you have” we politely responded “yes sir”. He then asked for our boarding tickets, and when he saw them he goes “oh you are late”. Thanks buddy. So we ran a little and then hit passport security. We had to wait in another long line for them to check our passports. After making it through, we sprinted to what we thought was our gate, only to find that we needed to take a shuttle to our gate. Of course. At this point it was about 8:02, our plane was going to leave at 8:15. I started picturing what it would be like to sleep in an airport. We jumped on the next shuttle and sprinted (once again) off the shuttle and up the escalators. I was first, and after running up the escalators, a women at the top says “Budapest”? I was winded, but managed to say yes, and she pointed us to the left. Kate was behind me, and as I sprinted, we heard people yelling “girls” and Kate told me to turn around. When we got to the counter, the employers told us to give them all our documents and we threw everything we had at them, ran down the terminal, and hoped on our plane. 
We literally got on the plane, sat down, and took off. They definitely held the plane for us. We had a quick trip to Budapest, and when we got there Dan and his roomie Claire (who goes to Bowdoin and knows Maria) picked us up. Claire had a friend visiting too that landed about the same time, so then we went back to their apartment to relax. Their apartment was very nice and big. I was really tired, so I took a shower and hit the sack. Friday morning Kate woke us all up early! Dan made eggs which we really good and we were off! I don’t even want to think about how many miles we ended up walking on Friday. We walked to a church, which was beautiful, and there was a funeral for an Olympic athlete going on! After that we walked some more, and went to the post office to get stamps. We then got some icecream, and walked along the Danube River, and then crossed the river to Buda. We walked up a very big hill to Castle Hill, and it was weird because we saw buildings with bullet holes. We went to the church but they were doing construction so there wasn’t too much to see. After that we had lunch at this excellent place, and had Goulash which was VERY good. 
It was almost like beef stew. The man asked if we wanted to eat or have drinks, and I said to eat, and he goes “black teats?” It was weird. Also, there was recorder music playing, like music from the 80’s and 90’s recorder style. After lunch we were very tired and went back to the apartment and changed into our suits to go to the Turkish baths. It was sooo cool! It was like a resort, but all the water was fresh and hot! Everyone was in their bathing suits and it felt so good to relax in the hot water. One of the pools had a type of whirlpool which was fun, but out elbows got beat up. So we hung out there for a while, and then took the metro back and got some food for dinner. Dan cooked “chicken”. It didn’t turn out to be chicken, but what
ever kind of meat it was was delicious. We had dinner and then Claire had a bunch of friends over, so we just relaxed. On Saturday we slept in a little, I made eggs, and then we had an “American Day”. We went to a torture museum which was interesting, and walked around and went to the first McDonalds behind the Iron Curtin. We came back and crashed, so we decided the best course of action was to order Pizza Hut pizza. They delivered, and we curled up to watch a movie! We hit the sack and then were up at 5:00 to go to the airport and caught our plane back home! We had an amazing weekend!
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