Made It

5/18/2008 Finally made it to Budapest around 12pm local time after an adventurous landing. I snagged some Forints (Hungarian currency) from the ATM and got a speed-racer cab to the hotel, after managing the language barrier: Hungarian is a hard language to learn! With a nice case of jet-lag, us fellows met in the lobby for a language and city orientation of Budapest, I'm sure I'll forget everything after I sleep finally. We were taken to dinner at a great restaurant, enjoying some national cuisine. I had a pork knuckle, resembling a cave-man style hunk of meat with some pickles and vegetables. The wine was good--of course I thought the “red” was better than the “white”. The Cock Testicles (no joke, it is a food dish) weren't that bad either, just a little chewy. A group of us walked along the Danube after dinner and were amazed at the city lights along the river. The views are fantastic. Well, time for some necessary shut-eye.