Its Monday again and here I am sitting in my bed after class blogging about my weekend before I lose my memories in the deep crevasse in my mind my adventure started about 11:30 Thursday night when talking “Let’s talk about going to Budapest” to “All right man were going to Budapest” we didn’t book a place to stay or know where a hostel was, all we knew that a train was leaving to San Pulton was leaving around 6:20 the next morning and we should be on it. But about the time I was ready to go to bed I realized that I would only get about four hours of sleep and since I wasn’t really tired I would pull an all-nighter so I went downstairs to see what else was up and then when I got down there I saw Katrina, a friend of mine and after for a while we decided to build a snow man so after we went back to our rooms to but on some more layers we came back down and started the build, but mind you most of the building consisted of her laying in the snow and me building the snowman after some time we completed my first real snowman to be built, then we went back inside and she went to bed while I went to the computer lab and watched Disney’s Robin Hood. And come 5:20 I went and got ready to leave, because we were suppose to leave around 5:30 and come 5:40 all three of us were ready to leave, the travelers this week was me, Jason Theobald and Daniel, and we left for the train station, which we were sure we were going to miss, that was until we were able to hitchhike a ride from a local, and we ended up arriving at the train station before the other students who left at 5:20 we then boarded the train and then made our way to San Pulton and one we were there we learned that if we make it to Vienna we could catch a bus there for cheaper than taking the train, so we got a ticket to Vienna and made it there, once in Vienna we got on a public tram and rode to the bus station where we got on and made our way to Budapest, along the way we renamed the currency to Hufflepuff (like the Harry Potter house) because the abbreviation for it was Huf. And we decided that what it was for. Once we made it to Budapest we followed some other Franciscan students to their hostel to see if we can stay in the same one but that hostel was out of room but the owner sent us to another one and once we were there we were able to haggle the price that we would pay with the owner. And then we dropped off our stuff and started to walk the town after some walking we came across a sports bar which was playing college basketball, and that was enough for us to say for a while, as we were enjoying our meal a waitress walked up to us and told us that they were going to shoot a commercial for the bar and we could either move to another table (out of the shot) or sign some papers and be in the commercial. So of course we signed the papers and got in the commercial the first scene we were in was just us eating in the background of the people they were originally trying to film, but then the director told us that they were filming the final scene and he wanted us in the other room to be in it. So we walked over there and found a table to look good at and then the director (Which was from Colorado, and the owner of the bar was from Canada and about half the people spoke English quite well) told Daniel that he wanted him in the front, and me and Jason about two rows behind him standing up. And there he wanted us to be in anticipation for a few seconds and when he said so we would jump up and get real excited and start yelling, and as we were leaving we were able to barter with the owner for us to get a free beer next time we come. After that we went back to our Hostel and turned in, we awoke the next day and then started off looking for the Turkish Baths that we heard so much about, we eventually found one of the seven that were in the city and this one was a nice indoors one, so we made our way in and then spent the next four hours there, it was amazing there was a spot where the hot water would fall into the water and just sitting under that was amazing, there was a steam room that we made our way into and that was great too, save the fact that there was so much steam I couldn’t see my accompanies even though they were sitting next to me plus it also made it hard to breath, the most we could handle was about three minutes at a time, but outside of the steam room was a chilled bath, so when we would get out of the steam room we would go into the chilled bath and stay there for a while, offering up our discomfort to each a special intention. After we got out of the baths we made our way back to the hostel and not a word was said between the three of us because we were in just this amazing place of serenity, after we dropped off our trunks at the baths, o and I might add we were practically the only people at the baths who wore trunks, Speedos were very popular. After that we dropped by a kabob stand and had an early dinner, then we walked more of Budapest, and then we ended up at the Legends Sports Bar again and after getting seating and ordering the first round of drinks Rob, the owner, found us and we reminded him that he owed us a round so he said the next ones on him, (Which he got us was Guinness and it was amazing) but at the bar was the England Wales Rugby Game and the whole bar seemed to be filled with England fans, most of which looked liked they played Rugby in College, and a few were shirtless and most was beyond intoxicated, but it was fun to listen to them singing their cheers, even though they spoke English we still had no idea what they were talking about. After the game was over, and England won, we stayed and watched some soccer. After we had our fill we made our way back to the Hostel and once we got there we found we acquired three new neighbors, so while talking to them we came to these conversation topics, how no one in Europe likes America/Americans, how if you speak English you have job security because you can go to a foreign country and teach it there, the American Government, and Marijuana is legal in Europe, and that came about when we were talking to them in conversation two of the guys took out a store bought bag full of it started rolling joints right in front of us, then they headed off to a Budapestian Bath Dance Party which we were thinking about going to before we saw them, and after our conversation we just went to our room and locked the door for the night. We awoke the next morning and checked out of the room and made our way to the bus station, which we realized was on the wrong side of town, it just looked really sketch, but we survived it, then we boarded and made our way to Vienna. Once we got there Daniel and Jason went to a Kabob Stand to get lunch because they didn’t have breakfast, I did because I had leftover of my loaf of bread, crackers, and some coke left, then as we walked into the Train Station we looked at the schedule and saw that a train left to san Pulton in five minutes, and they ran to the Red Box to buy the Tickets and I ran to see where the station was, then we ran to the train and got on about two minutes before it left. As we were on it the guy who checked our tickets told us to get on another train because this one is slow and at the next stop we can get on another and make it half-an-hour before the one we were on did, so we got off, found the train and got on it and then from San Pulton we went to Pulclorn and from there to Gaming. And then Monday night was the Super Bowl and all the guys (all 49 of them) made their way to the St. Francis Lobby to see it. Mike Hickey got me a Liter from the Keller and we sat next to each other enjoying our company (because we were rooting for other teams but still made it fun) then Ari, who is the Student life Directors son who is about 4 came up and said to Hickey “Hold this” and gave him his water, then looked at me and me and said scoot over, so I scooted over and he sat on the other side of me, and I then spent a majority of the first half trying to explain to him how football works, but I was able to convince him that the blue team was better, and the gold team would lose, he left a little before the first half with his dad, who had a blast watching him interact with me and Hickey. Then to my dismay I fulfilled a 7 year tradition of losing to Matt Di Filippo while betting on the Super Bowl, and then I went to bed. Tuesday went by pretty fast I had accountability with Stephen, Joseph, and Andy that night. And now it’s Wednesday two days after I started this blog.
o and FYI i didnt take any pictures on this trip so i can't put any on the blog
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