Having a fabulous weekend hanging around Budapest. Went to Szentendre yesterday with Arnab, its a small village about 45 mins outside of Budapest. Absolutely adorable, it snowed most of the time which was lovely. Bought some Christmas presents, had a great lunch,
wandered around the village, and admired the Danube.
We spent the train ride quizzing each other on Harry Potter trivia. Yes, I'm a huge dork, but guess what, he beat me. Yep, someone may actually know more obscure and random facts about HP than I do. Hard to believe.
After getting back from Szentendre we headed over to Buda to see the Palace and Fisherman's Bastion at night. It was fairytale like; Cinderella never had it as good as those Hungarian fishermen.
Today we went to the Budapest Zoo; I had rather low expectations, especially considering
the weather. Well, I was absolutely wrong, those Hungarian animals are anything but wimps. It was amazing, I saw more animals out and playing than I've seen in my entire life of zoo trips. And that's saying something. However, I was sorely disappointed with the lack of meerkats. But, the sheer proximity of the animals made up for that; for the most part, all that separated us from the animals was a piece of Plexiglas. (not the camels though, totally could touch them) I totally got swatted at (through Plexi) by a baby lion, apparently I looked like lunch.
Also, good news on the paper writing front, I've consolidated my work by simply writing one paper and turning it in twice. I think of it as spending my time wisely.
About to head over to Marxim, my favorite socialist pizza place.
Just 23 days till I get home, and 4 till my 21st birthday...
Here's my Zoo album: http://claremont.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2058603&l=2c048&id=13306486
Hungarian work of the day:
pingvinek "penguins"
1 comment:
LITTLE BIRTHDAY BABY
Ok so I'm a day late.
And my Mom called to tell me to post on our wholllle families behalf yesterday so don't think you're unloved.
I cannot WAIT for you to get back, despite your great love for Budapest, I hope we're not too boring to come home to.
On that note, we have our cousin date to plan. I know the date is Saturday Jan 5th and that all of us can make it, but other than that, not sure.
What kind of thing would you want to do? Universal studios is pretty central to all of us... just thinking out loud here.
I hope you had a wonderful birthday, and that your buddies out in Budapest showered you with love as you deserve.
<3 Steph and the Brower Fam
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