Weekend Wrap Up

Busy weekend.

Saturday
Saturday morning we walked to the Central Market Hall (Nagy Vásárcsarnok). There are many booths selling fresh produce, meats, breads, spirits as well as some clothes, linens & "touristy" stuff (t-shirts etc.). Very interesting morning. Here are some pictures:


In the afternoon we made a practice run out to Katie's school again. The first day of school is this Monday and I need to be sure I can get her there. Katie is beside herself with excitement and can not wait for Monday morning.

I can report that we did better than Thursday. Thursday we got TOTALLY lost and had to stop and ask some guy to point to where we were on our map. Saturday we only got a little sidetracked a couple of times and made the round trip from school to hotel in ~50 minutes.

We realized that one of our main problems was that we were applying Houston-distances to the map. Remember, just about all of Budapest would fit inside the 610 loop. When we would go to look for our turn, we would find out that we had already gone 4 streets past it!

Sunday
Rather than "Good Morning," Katie woke us up with "I start school tomorrow!" I think the fact that her school has a pool and they plan on swimming on Monday has helped ease the transition.
We made another practice run out to her school and I can happily report that we made no wrong turns and it only took 13 minutes (1 way).

From there we went straight across town to the Polus Center. Basically a large mall. They have a large supermarket (Tesco's Hypermarket) and for the first time was able to find some PEANUT BUTTER! It was totally expensive but what are you going to do.

We ended the day with dinner at the Bangkok Tai Restaurant. It was recommended in one of our Budapest Guide books and dinner was delicious.

That's it for now...got to get the kids ready for bed and make sure Katie's stuff is all together for school tomorrow.