to fruition as I arrived at 12:30 and she arrived later that afternoon with a bunch of her friends from her study abroad program in Salzburg, Austria. The weekend was filled with a little bit of everything as we experienced a wide array of things within the city.Our first night in was relegated to getting things sorted out, and walking around to get some food - then we dove into the nightlife headfirst. With an interesting evening under our belts we took off (not so) bright and early the next morning for our first full day within the city. We walked around and saw plenty of
sights, loads of beautiful architecture, and met some crazy Albanian guys who were wearing soccer jerseys while we were passing the stadium section of the city and wound up talking to them and discovered that there was a national soccer game going on that evening right there! Albania and Hungary were playing in the semifinal qualifying stage for the 2010 World Cup! Believe it or not, I wasn't even the one who insisted that we go. But what a great decision it was! With a national victory under our belts, us weekend-Hungarians decided to celebrate as the rest of the city did.Sunday we strolled through the other side of the city (which is split in two parts, Buda, and Pest) and saw their Parliament building, crossed the Danube and stumbled upon a wine, pretzel
and sausage tasting event taking place within the Royal Palace! It cost us 1700 HUF (about 6 euro) to get in, and was it ever worth it!Sadly the weekend came to a close though and they left last night - surprisingly, of all the people I've traveled around with for 2-3 or more days, they were the only few people I was not happy to part ways with. Almost slightly disappointed they've left - but I know that more fun and interesting people await down the line... Perhaps in Poland... or maybe Slovakia... I'm not quite sure yet, maybe I'll flip a coin and see where I end up...
