My first entry...the pressure

Budapest, Hungary

-From Sarah

Yesterday morning we woke up in rainy Vienna and walked to meet a good family friend of Damon's called Gunther. He is a native Austrian and was quite a nice tour guide. He told us to meet him at Starbucks nearthe Opera House. Starbucks? With all of these amazing Viennese coffeeshops with gluttonous pastries.... but to be fair, it was pretty easyto find. He gave us some inside scoop on Vienna and showed us to St Stephen's and Hapsburg Palace. In St Stephen's we were rewarded witha great view of the city and managed to snap off a couple of nice pictures. One of us is afraid of heights and even they enjoyed the view, I think. After saying goodbye to Gunther we wandered around the city a bit, before saying goodbye to Damon a few hours later.

We left Vienna this morning headed for Budapest and even got a nice Hungarian stamp in our passports with a car symbol. Fantastic. Because we didn't have a place to stay yet we got dropped off at the information center where we were paired up with a lovely Hungarian woman who would be our landlady for the rest of our stay. She only speaks about 6 words of English, and we don't know her name, but her apartment is nice, and she smiles a lot. Since my Hungarian is rusty,we haven't had many interesting discussions, but I am pretty good at smiling we seem to get a long fine. She fixed Andy and I teawhen we arrived. She was excited about the tea.

All in all, Budapest looks to be a nice town. It's very pretty, and has a really cool vibe to it. We have big plans for this place so hopefully the next blog entry will be exciting. I have a bath house stop in my future... I can't wait.

Also, watch for Damon's final blog posting with his overall thoughts of the trip.