:-)

hello again!

so life here in Budapest has been (and probably will continue to be) very busy lately! Last week was spent working on (or finding excuses not to be working on) my paper, followed by an awesome weekend in Prague, and then studying for today's midterm. And tomorrow we have a field trip, and will be doing reading for Thursday's class and finishing the planning for our October break trip.

This past weekend in Prague was amazing! I went with a group of four other people (the three girls I went to Croatia with plus one guy) though four other people from our group also went to Prague this weekend, we just stayed different lengths of time. We left on Friday night, and took an overnight bus ride over there. (sleeping was rather difficult: it must've been at least a million degrees on that bus!!) we arrived in Prague at about 6:00 am on Saturday morning. Once we navigated the subway and found our hostel, we found out that we weren't going to be able to check into our room until at least 12. So, we decided we would just take a really long time eating their all-you-can-eat breakfast! It didn't take us quite the necessary 3 1/2 hours, so we had some extra time to look at maps and pamphlets and try and figure out exactly what we wanted to do while we were there.

after putting our stuff in our room, we headed out to the main part of the city. we explored the old town center, followed a free tour for a while, and then saw some cool buildings on either side of the river. the afternoon and evening was spent napping, eating, and observing local nightlife. ;-)

sunday was when we did more exploring as we had recovered from our lack of sleep. the first thing we saw was the Prague caste, which was gorgeous! then we spent a long time just wandering around the city before having an early dinner. After dinner we went on a boat tour! It was clear out with a full moon, so it was beautiful! (i'm including some pictures from this...) after the tour and some dessert it was time to head to the bus station. we took another overnight bus (much easier to sleep on this one!!) and arrived in Budapest at about 6am on Monday! Overall an awesome weekend!!

well, that's all for now...and I probably won't update this for a couple weeks because I will be gone in Italy for October break!! :-)

here are some pictures from the weekend:

Prague castle: