Photos from Budapest

Our first morning in Budapest.  Breakfast was brought to our room by a very delightful young woman who was more than happy to see mousy and quail dive right in.  They were very hungry after our long journey.

But even after satisfying their ravenous morning appetites, they were enthralled with the variety of goodies, especially the honey specialties, available at Budapests Central Market ...I have not figured out punctuation marks on European keyboards yet.

The Central Market was huge and filled not only with Tourists, but with locals doing their daily shopping.  After browsing for a couple of hours, we all made our way to the Buda side of Budapest and spent the rest of the day partaking of the local pasttime...spa bathing.  Budapest is known for its thermal waters and Turkish baths, the most famous of which is probably the Gellert Bath.  We did not take pictures there because we did not realize that once our belongings were locked up for security that we could access them at any time, and then put them away again.  So, we relaxed and enjoyed, found a great Hungarian restaurant and went back for a restful night in our hotel.

The next morning we left our hotel nice and early, making our way on the Metro back to the Buda side...Budapest is divided into 2 main areas, Buda is the green, sedate side, while Pest is the more densely develped side with more tourist attractions such as museums, shops and clubs. After admiring the monumental statues of Heros Square,

we made our way to a bath that caters to locals as opposed to the more tourist oriented Gellert.

Few of the attendants spoke any English and all of the signs were in Hungarian, but none of that mattered to us and the many other tourists who joined the natives.  This time we got photos.

The following day we hopped on a Bratislva bound ferry along the Danube.  Rocky had a nice long snooze.We had dinner with Michael, Janka and Denisa...Michaels mom...and the next day were honored to attend Michael and Jankas wedding, the entire reason for the trip.  You better believe these Slovakians know how to have a wedding.  We partied until about 2 in the morning, the glowing couple partied longer and harder, but were none the worse for wear today.
 

Tomorrow we will take another ferry to spend the day in Vienna and Tuesday we will head to Michaels familys cabin in the Slovakian Tatras.