OK...so we had a 9:00am appt to visit Katie's new school, The American International School of Budapest (AISB). We planned on leaving the hotel at 8:00am to give us plenty of time to get there.
True to form, we did not actually get out of the parking garage until 8:30am. Now I should note that this is actually the first time either of us had driven in Budapest as the rental car was only dropped of yesterday afternoon. But no problem because it's not really too far and we have a map, right.
Suffice it to say that we missed the exit off the highway and got way off track. We had to back track through side streets. While the streets in Budapest are labeled VERY well, the Buda side of the city (where her school is and our house will be) is very hilly and the street planners had never heard of a straight line. On the up side, we found out where the Ikea is so there's something else off our list.
We got there at 9:12am and the principal took us on a tour of the school. Katie got introduced to her class and her new teacher & teacher asst. We saw the art room (twice a week), music class (twice a week), lunchroom, gym and, most importantly, the pool. They go swimming at least twice a week (it may have been three times). All in all it was a great visit and Katie is very excited about starting on Monday.
Anna was able to navigate us with no problems to her work where we dropped her off at 10am. I drove back to the hotel area in about 10 minutes. I was able to get us to within 5 meters of the parking garage entrance on the first try. Unfortunately, those 5 meters were down a one way street not going the way I needed. It took me another 50 - 60 minutes of driving (including two questionably illegal u-turns) to find the entrance to this tiny one way street.
Here is a map of Budapest showing the relative locations of Katie's school, our Hotel, Anna's office and our future home. If I measured correctly, Budapest, the 7th (?8th) largest city on the European Union would fit inside the 610 loop in Houston.
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