10/17/14 Budapest

We had a wonderful dinner last night at the Klassz restaurant.  It was lovely to have a one course meal at an earlier time.  On the way back to the hotel, we passed a bride, her flower girl, and what I presume was the bride's mother walking toward us on the sidewalk.  The unusual part of this is that the bride was on her cell phone!  Was she calling the groom to find out where he was?  Did she forget something needed for the ceremony? or perhaps the ceremony was over as we did see some rice on the sidewalk, so if that is the case where was the groom?  Did he get a ride to the reception and the bride had to walk?  Of course, we will never know, but it certainly was an unusual sight.

We had a great breakfast in the hotel dining room and then used our underground pass to go to the giant Ferris wheel.  Although it was spitting rain, we had a lovely ride and the views were great from the top of the arc.  It went around three times so we really had a good ride.  Susanne opted to wait for us below as she is not crazy about heights.  We had intended to take a tour of the Parliament building, but the price was a bit steep so we instead took a ride on the tram along the embankment.  We walked back to the Metro station and then came back to the hotel.  We took our flight information to the business office and after much trial and error (the keyboard here is not qwerty), we were able to print out our boarding passes for tomorrow.  We had a nice lunch in the bar of the hotel as it was quite wet out by lunch time.  Susanne and I went for a walk about 3 PM, but had to cut it short as the rain and wind picked up.  We were quite drenched by the time we got back to the hotel.  I just dried by soaked pants with the hair dryer.  We have decided to walk back to Klassz tonight for dinner as it was so good last night.  We will have to get up early tomorrow to get breakfast before we get picked up for our ride to the airport.  We will fly from Budapest to Paris, have a four hour layover, and then fly into Boston.  We should be home about 9 or 9:30 tomorrow night.