Sunday, August 01, 2010

The First Few Days!

Wednesday was a very long day of traveling. Everyone started out happy on the plane.This is our second flight. British Airways gave us a package that included this sleeping mask. Paisley has been using it ever since. We are so happy to be on that plane because we only made it there by minutes!

This picture was taken in the London Heathrow airport. We were definitely starting to wilt at this point. Jarom's face is how we really feel.

Finally on the last flight!!

Airhead time!! We had gone through all of Jarom's snack options and he wasn't having any of them so desperate times call for sugary snacks! He liked showing off his green tongue after the airhead.
We hung out at the hotel waiting for Mom and Dad to arrive. One of their planes was a couple hours late and we didn't know when they would show up, so we walked around outside. This pretty courtyard is in the front of our hotel.

Breakfast time! European breakfast is gross! Who wants meat, cheese, warm juice and milk and other non-breakfasty things for breakfast? Not this group! We now have some cereal and our own COLD milk so we are surviving.
On a bridge over the Danube River.

Riding in a streetcar.

Dinner this second night was an adventure. We haven't had luck finding people that speak english. The menu was also in German and our phrase books didn't help us translate it, so we decided to just go for it. The cordon bleu was in English so we shared that, the hamburger was in English so Dad got that, but Jason was brave and ordered something in German. He ended up getting 5 grilled sausage links with fries. Mmmmm! (not so much)

Getting on the train heading to Budapest! 3 Hours later we'd be in Hungary.

On the train.

When we got to Budapest we took a bus tour all throughout the city. While driving we would listen to a narration about buildings and facts about Budapest. We could get on and off at any stop we wanted to. This is after a couple stops. The narration wasn't enough to keep her awake!
Part of our tour included a boat ride on the Danube river. It was lots of fun!

The train ride home from Budapest.

We have been loving having gelato everyday! It is sooo good! Ice cream will never be the same for me.

Schonbrunn Palace. They have huge grounds. Today we went to the zoo, later we will go in the palace and some of the other buildings on the grounds.

The hat girls!

Jarom loved that girafee, he must have gotten that from MB!

Jarom was happy to be going back to the hotel after a hot day at the zoo.

So far so good. I can't believe all we have packed into the 5 days we have been gone. I also can't believe we have 12 more to go!! It is super late here so guten nacht!

2 comments:

taryn_swims_ said...

sounds like ur having fun!! keep on having fun! :) keep posting

silleeg said...

wow, thanks for sharing! looks like tons of fun!