Happy 4th of July!!!
I can keep a promise :D The last two days have really flown by for us. We don't have any pictures to post (please don't hate us) but we can give you the rundown. Yesterday we spent more time with Melissa (the one Megan taught with at Poteet). We met her at the Vasar Csarnok (the huge indoor market in the 9th District) for breakfast and some shopping. Around noon we headed to the Buda side for lunch at everyone's favorite Italian restaurant, Marcelo's. There's a reason it's everyone's favorite, best pizza I've had in a long time. After lunch we went to a brand-new mall that opened up last winter to wander around and enjoy some ice cream. We have eaten a RIDICULOUS amount of ice cream this trip, kinda embarrassing actually. In fact, on our itemized expense report we'll be turning in to East West Ministries at the end of the trip, we have a running joke that if we can't remember what a certain receipt is from, default it to ice cream. (Megan's favorites are pineapple and Ferrero Rocher) After the mall we went back to John & Allison's to collapse for a couple hours before going to a Tex Mex restaurant called Arriba Taqueria. It was a lot like Freebird's and the girl who took us down the line actually spoke Spanish! Their horchata left something to be desired, though.
Today we got up and went to John & Allison's church, Calvary Chapel. Everything was in Hungarian but with English translation. It meets in an old movie theater and has a regular attendance of about 1,500. We grabbed lunch with their (and now our) friend Hannah who is studying politics this summer at the Central European University from Princeton. We had to pack everything up again as did the Jordans as they've moved out here to Diosd, a suburb of Budapest, for the next 2 weeks to house-sit while they're out here doing an English camp that starts tomorrow. This evening, we went to the home of a couple who hosted a LOT of American missionaries and their families for a big 4th of July barbeque. We had hamburgers, hot dogs, salads, watermelon and two kinds of homemade ice cream with lots of other dessert options. Awesomeness. We left before it got dark so we don't know if they had fireworks too, but I doubt it. They might not want to freak out their Hungarian neighbors.
The USA is 234 today, kinda cool. Hungary is 1,009 years old. Dang.
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