HOwyd! I'm in a very small town surrounded by beautiful mountains -they are the Carpathian Mountains. wow it reminds me a lot of Colorado with the trees and amazing afternoon weather. The weather in Slavakia is a lot cooler than Hungary, although it might be because we got here in the afternoon but it was really hot in Budapest today. (83 degrees)
We got to tour more of Budapest today and a group of girls and I went to 3 places that were really amazing! We went to the Opera house, which was closed so we got lots of pictures outside, and in the gift shop. the gift shop was on the side of the building and sort of connected, there were these stairs that led up to the main hall and I jumped over the roap and went up into the main hall, wow! The stairs led to a circular hall and it was really dark and there were scary noises, it really reminded me of phantom of the opera-really freaky, so I decided to go back down to the official tourist areas :-)
Next, we went to the House of Terror, where the Nazi regime had their head quarters during WWII, during which they called it the House of Loyalty. This is where thousands went in and never came out. They have since turned it into a hallocast museum and it was pretty moving, though it was all in Hungarian so i didnt really understand a lot of it. The most moving part was the basement where they executed thousands. They also had papers in english that explained it all, but we were short on time so I'm going to read about it later :-)
After that, we went to St. Stephen's Basilica which was HUGE! wow i'll put pictures up later, but it was amazing and lots of guilded candelaberas and tall domes.
I did a lot in the 3 hours that we had to see the city! Then we headed to Slovakia and then had the evening free to traverse the city. Its a mining city so its near a creek and hilly.
Tomorrow i plan on going to the "New Castle", (that was built to defend against the Turks) the mining museum and the Old Castle.
hopefully i'll be able to load my pictures later.
Jen
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Jennifer, It sounds like you are having so much fun. Everything is fine here. Dad completed stage one of is treatments with flying colors. He has put in for a job in Torontoe. That is better than Angola. Love you Lots.
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