breakfast, paid rent for 4 days, bought a metro/bus/tram pass, and walked out into Budapest.Budapest is a beautiful city. I honestly knew nothing about it when deciding to come. The Danube river cuts right through the middle north to south. The west side of the river is called "Buda" and the East side is "Pest". The Buda side has wonderful medieval castles and churches. The Pest side is more cosmopolitan and modern with a huge parliament building and stores, etc.
We walked over the northern most bridge to an island where they had a huge fountain synchronized with classical music. It was cool. Literally. By the way, it's been in the high 30 's and low 40's here. For those of you who are aren't doing any mathematical conversions this summer (Hey-- school's out), in Celsius that means 40C = 104F. So it's been very hot. We took every chance to run through sprinklers or douse ourselves in public drinking fountains every chance we had.After visiting the island, we took a tram and bus to the Buda side and went to Castle Hill. It was amazing. We saw a really old church called Matthias Church and took pictures at the Fisherman's Bastion. Very beautiful. Then we went to Buda Castle-- very large! After that, we walked down to the Danube riverside and rode a tram to a public drinking fountain and then crossed a bridge to the biggest covered market in Europe called the "Great Market Hall". There we got the ingredients for sandwiches, which we made and ate along the outdoor
market street. After that, we took a tram up to the Hungarian Parliament Building-- where they were having a film festival. Pretty dull. So we went back to the Hostel for a nap and then went out to play music in the streets. Heidi played the violin, Alina percussion, and me on the guitar. We actually made some money! 
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