Day 4: More Budapest

On our second day in Budapest we started out at 8am with a bigger tour
of the city. Having the bus is really nice cause we will get out walk
and see all the cool stuff take pictures and then get picked up so it
minimizes walking and maximizes your time.

We went up to the palace complex and saw St Mattius's church which was
being renovated on the outside. The palace area was cool and our
favorite part was fisherman's bastion which is like a fort facing the
river. We took like 150 pictures at the palace.

We also went to hero's square which was built in 1896 to commerate
1000 years of the Hungarian empire. They had a 6 month party and most
of the big buildings in town were built on time for that celebration.
Next to hero's square is Vajdahunyad Castle. Yeah I can't say it
either. Basically this arcitect went around Hungary and made a small
scale model of a castle that combined castles and palaces from the
14-17 centuries and displayed it at the 1896 celebration. Everyone
loved it so much that he was commissioned to build it full scale. So
it is a beautiful castle that no one has ever lived in.

After the morning tour we went on a Danube boat cruise for lunch. It
was very cool; the view was great from the
water. We had some time to ourselves with U/R. We have been thinking
of him alot.

In the afternoon we went around by ourselves. We tried to go in the
Parliment but there was no English tour that afternoon. We went up to
the top of St Stephens Cathedral which was very high and windy but had
a great view of the city. Inside the church was the prettiest church I
have ever seen. Lots of gold and marble.

Then we just explored the rest by foot. We rested for an hour and
then went to the largest mall in eastern Europe.

As I am writing this we are heading to Austria.