Budapest, Hungary!

Wow who would have thought that Budapest would have been my favorite trip so far. As a European country that was rain by the soviet union and is so close to Asia and the middle east, Budapest is the most intriguing culture. It is truely a mixture of Asian, European and Indian cultures. The food is amazing, there are natural spring that are transformed into large "baths" where you can relax in 110 degree natural water, there is a fortress, great night life, and so much history.
The beginning of the trip was not very smooth. Actually is was really scary at the time and funny now. We had to take a night train because it was a 12 hour trip. We had two transfers and then got on our last train (which was 8 hours) and finally fell asleep. About and hour into our rest the ticket guy woke us up and when he looked at our ticket he said, "Where are you going?" we said budapest and he said we were on the wrong train. We couldnt figure out how but then we realized that the train we had been on slpit into two trainsin salzburg and we were on the wrong half. Needless to say it was 3 in the morning and we had to figure out a new route to budapest and sit at a run down old train station. Luckily it worked out but boy were we nervous and SO SLEEPY!
We stayed in a loft style youth hostile and were treated really well. It was a nice hostile for only 12 euros a night! We had dinner the first night and I can not get over how good their food is. WOW! If you ever see a hungarian restaurant go!!
The next day we explored the whole town. The opera house was beautiful and huge. There was a castle and we tried to imagine being princesses hahaha. We went on a walking tour where we learned a lot about the history of Hungary and Budapest. They have a really sad history of a horrible monarchy and then being taken over by Nazi germany and then "saved" by the soviet union. It wasnt until 20 years ago that they were free from oppression.
Saturday night we went on a bar crawl and hung out with some people from england. When they heard it was the american independence day they said "oh thats the day we gave you the colonies" i said gave us oh no you mean we fought and won them... there was a short history lesson and then we were friends. :) it was cool listening to them talk with fake american accents and talk aout steorotypes of eachothers countries. I had a blast.
Really budepest was amazing and a suggest it to anyone!

Miss you all!