pictures!

These were all taken at the royal palace.












This stuff was pretty much awesome. So tasty.




going to bed now!

Hey all!

So, I pretty much want to put up pictures of the last few days... but as it is, my dear little USB cord that connects my camera to my computer... is... hiding. So, until I find it, no recent pictures :[

But I can tell ya'll what we have done that last few days!.... what have we done.... ok... um. Thursday, we went to a town called, Pecs, when you say it, it sounds like, Paige, but its spelled Pecs :) We went there, met up with the pastor of the Calvary Chapel there, and he took us around the town. I really have no idea how to spell his name, so I won't even try. But he was really cool. This town was really neat, we went into a church, and went around and looked at a bunch of different stuff. That night the girls and boys seperated. Us girls went to a bible study, and the guys went and did... something, I don't know what for sure. Anyway.

Yesterday morning we had some breakfast and loaded up in a bus and headed off to Budapest. We arrived there after about two hours, and then started touring around. We stayed the night in a hostel, with an awesome view. And then this morning we woke up, got our stuff together and went to the Calvary Chapel there in Budapest. It was quite awesome, the music was really good, and the sermon was really good. So then after that we went to this huge mall, and then came home.

Now we're back, we had some BBQ, and went swimming. Now here I sit, trying to figure out where the heck that stupid USB cord is. I am quite put out that I cannot find it. Ho hum...

Well, I have to go now because bed time is soon, so maybe pictures tomorrow.
Bye for now!

Helllooo everyone!

So a shortish post tonight. Because I am so tired! I really need to get to bed soon, cause it’s like… 10:20 here I think. Maybe later, I am scared to look at the clock. And curfew is at 11:30. Probably no pictures tonight either, but if you look on my sidebar, and click My Pictures, it will take you to my Picasa album thing, and you can see some of the ones I have put up of Budapest.

So anyway… today…. Oh yes. We had our first class, Nehemiah, with Mark. We kind of just did a introduction, so we haven’t really dove into the book yet. Then after that class we had, The Life of Daniel with Arpi. I LOVED it, like really, really loved it. We went over just the first chapter. And mainly talked about obedience. Just how obedient Daniel was, and how faithful he was to the Lord. It was just… I don’t know, I would like to completely write down everything. Probably would if it wasn’t so late. But yeah, it was just an amazing class.

After classes and dinner, and all were broken into groups to do our 3 hours of service. Which involves numerous things. Some people do dishes, some people clean rooms, some people clean bathrooms, some people mop and sweep and such, like I cleaned up here in the coffee shop, it took me 3 hours for sure. it’s a big room and I had a lot to do. After that, we played some pool! And I completely and totally kicked Nathan’s butt! And the cool thing is, I am not even kidding J We are going to have a rematch later on. Ha! Haha! HAHAHA! It was fun, we played in teams after that. Pool is so much fun, then we had supper. Ceaser chicken salad, when I learned all we were having was salad I was kind of sad… I mean… its salad, but it had tons of chicken in it, so it ended up being pretty darn good. I would probably still chose a burger over it… but it was not bad at all. After that we practiced a skit we’re going to be doing next week… and then played some football! Actually soccer. But if anytime I mention we played football, I am going to mean soccer, just keep that in mind. Yeah, it was so much fun. I pretty much love soccer now, which is weird cause I used to never have any interest in it. But when you go to a place like Mexico, or here… it just grows on ya.

Anyway, that is that. And now I need to go, I would write more, probably a lot more. I really want to write more on the classes, and what the Lord has shown me, cause its just incredible. Being in this place where everything is so focused on Christ is so amazing, but bedtime is in 30 minutes. So until next time, szia.

No pictures tonight, sorry.

SZIA!!! I am hearing that word a lot lately, it sounds a lot like, see ya. It means hello or good bye in Hungarian, just so ya know ;) I may have already told you… but I can’t remember.

Anywayy, figured I could update since we don't have class until 4:30, and its like... 2:35.

We all woke up and had breakfast this morning. Had devos (devotional) with Ken. then had our first class with Arpi! Arpi is cool, he is going to be teaching Hebrews. We went over the first chapter, and a little of the 2nd. We talked about God speaking, and how we need to listen and obey otherwise we will drift, and how satan tries to distract. After that class we had, Effective Bible Study with Jeremy, the class was AWESOME, and Jeremy is awesome. He was saying how incredibly important teaching from the Bible is, the whole Bible, I just like that, because now a days there are a lot of churches who don't use the Bible anymore, they use all this other stuff. Jeremy said teaching straight from the Bible is how it should be done, and he is so right. It was just a really neat class.

So far those are the only ones we have taken. We’ll take another one tonight, then we are going to go eat some awesome food at one of the Pastor’s house. This afternoon we just went swimming and such. We are going to have different classes throughout the day everyday, but Saturday and Sunday… and… well, we may not have any Friday either, I don’t know.

Oh! And I am SO excited, cause we’re going camping! Well, I already knew that before I came. But, we’re going camping in SLOVENIA!! Yep, that’s right… for four days I think, and during the time there we’re going to take a day trip (I think just a day) to Italy!! Its going to be awesome, Lisa (one of the ladies who works and lives here) said the place we are going in Slovenia is the place they filmed Chronicles of Narnia! She said it is absolutely gorgeous. I am pretty excited about that. Then… this weekend we’re going to Budapest for a couple of days, and then some other town… it seems like we’re going this weekend, but I am not sure if that is right. We are possibly going to Vienna, not sure yet. Everybody wants too, but they said its kind of out of the budget, since like prices have gone up to like ride the bus and stuff. So they told us to pray about it, and save some money if we can (like 60 or so dollars) We’ll see about that. And then we’ll probably go out to some towns around here. Like, I know we’re gonna go to a mental hospital, and then I think a old folks home. We’re going to do a couple of VBS’s I think… and then maybe have a youth thing here in Vajta for all the teenagers around here. We’re going to be doing a lot of worship, drama, and such.

Well, that is all the babblings I have for today, I will post a few more pictures. I think now I am going to go get some coffee, or ice cream… maybe both. Later!


Heroes Square

A street...

House of Terror










Thats it for today, sorry :)

Pictures! (at least a few)

I can't post many right now, cause it is almost time for supper. But here are some of Budapest, I will put up ones of here later on, I haven't taken that many yet. So, here goes.

Budapest


Buda side

Pest side





The royal palace




This statue was made, cause the dude at the top was pushed off that cliff by pagan hungarians... seriously


Ok, that is it for today, I know there weren't very many. But I am about to run out of internet time. Szia until next time!

I am here!!

We got here at the college yesterday. We had a heck of a time, that is for sure. We got to the Keleti Pu train station two hours before we were supposed to catch the train out here to Vajta. First thing they completely messed up our tickets, it took three trips to the ticket place to finally get them straight, Well, then we kept looking at the board that tells you whenever your train is coming up, and what train it is and all that... we ended up missing our train... yeah... and the people here from the college were going to pick us up at the station, I had no way of calling them to let them know we wouldn't be there. So, we went outside, ended up talking to the taxi driver and telling him our problem, and we got "No problem, no problem" he took us to the other station, and we caught the train there, ended up stopping at one town and having to wait there about an hour and 40 minutes. Whenever we finally got to the station, we had to walk... and walk, and walk until we finally made our way here to the college. Boy we were tired!

So now, after all that, we are here... or I am here, my grandparents left awhile ago. This place... I just wish I could describe it, it is gorgeous!! I cannot wait to show pictures. But I can't yet, cause we are about to leave to go tour Vajta. But my oh my, and the people here are super nice. Whenever we got here yesterday, dragging our luggage, 3 guys who were coming here too, just took our bags from us and finished carrying them for us, and everyone else I have come across have been super nice.

Pictures tomorrow... or maybe later today I don't know yet. I will tell more later too, just wanted to let you all know that I am here :) later.

There are just some things I could go my whole life without seeing... think, old man sunbathing... in a speedo... or think, another old man in nothing but his underwear riding down the street on a bycycle... or maybe even numerous couple making out, riding there in plain sight... oh and let me see... a gay couple walking down the street holding hands... uh huh.

The first two are things I got to... see yesterday, the other things are things I have seen just while being here. Where the old man thing happened was at Margeret Island, this little... well, island ride in the middle of Budapest, its a absolute gorgeous place, and we decided to go there for this huge dance carnival thing. Whilst walking to the open air theater, I get to see the old men, and of course people making out, and just about everything else. I decided to not look around anymore, but to just keep my eyes to the ground. It worked, until I almost ran into people. Yuck, like I said I could have gone my whole entire life without seeing this stuff, ecspecially the old man in a speedo... -shudders- can you get any grosser, I mean come on. Well, after being tramatized we made it to our open air theater and watched like... three and a half hours of dancing. It was pretty neat, but I liked the first folklor dancing thing we went to better. These people just seemed to keep doing the same stuff. There were a couple though I really liked, and one just because of the awesome music... it was like... music from India or something, I don't know, but it was cool. All the music just made ya want to get up and dance. I was bobbing my head and eveything... I think I was the only one :P

Now my grandma wants to go to a Opera or a Ballet... I informed her those were both WAY to cultured for me, and besides in a Opera you can't understand what they are saying. We couldn't go though even if we wanted to, since I go to the college tomorrow.

Hum... let me see.... well, yesterday we went and ate some food from India, at this, well, indian restraunt. I will not lie, I was not very fond of it. But we didn't get to pick what we ate either, cause we did the lunch menu thing, so they had these certain dishes you ate. Like, the first one was mushroom soup, I had a pretty good idea I wouldn't like it, but since I have been told numerous of times you don't know you don't like it until you try it... so, I did. And, it was gross. I am sorry to all you mushroom soup fans out there, but it is just not good. I even tried to flavor it by putting a ton of pepper, and salt in it, just didn't work. The next dish was supposed to be this chicken stuff, rice, and spinach potatoes (how weird is that!) there was only one little thing of chicken, and the rest was sauce and onions. The rice was good though... I chickened out and didn't try the spinach potatoes, I am not even going to say what I thought it looked like. So anyway, that was that. We stopped on the way out and had this wonderful Italian ice cream, so it was all good :)

I ate this hamburger type thing yesterday that just about killed me over. Not kidding, about 15 or so minutes after I ate it, I got real hot feeling, and my hands were all clamy, and then this awful stomach pain just hit me out of nowhere, it would kind of quit hurting, then start back up again unexpectantly. It was the weirdest thing, it finally quit after about a hour or so, then I just felt sick to my stomach, I never threw up, but I sure thought I might... I don't know if it was the burger thing or not, but it sure is weird that it happened right after I ate the thing.

And not only that, but I almost got taken out by and tram (not a train, and tram) I am not kidding about that either. But lucky for me, my super awesome cat reflexed got me out of the way, just in time. Yikes, got to watch out for them trams (and buses!)

Well, I am off like a little butter fly now. I probably need to get all my stuff gathered up. So until next time, Szia!

day... something. train ride!

What day is today.... umm.. oh yes, it is Thursday. Two more days and I will be at the college!

Today was the day... I got to ride a train! It turned out not to be to facinating or anything, since after all I had been on the metro numerous times. And that is kind of like how it was, but it is on top of ground so that just makes it better.

We took a train to... Szentendre. Don't ask me how to pronouce it. This town is about... 20 miles from here... I think. We went with plans of visiting a museum. But didn't get it done. Which is ok. I really enjoyed getting out of Budapest, and I got to see a little bit of the country side. It was gorgeous! rolling GREEN hills, I have never in my life seen so much green. And there is so many trees! I didn't realize it is so forestry. And the town itselfs was really neat, it had cobblestone streets. And was just real nice, and peaceful... I think we all enjoyed it. We even got to stop at this pastry shop and have this, oh so delicious cake. I really have got to learn to make it. We mainly just walked around town, looking at stuff. Then came back. On the train going over we met these two ladies from Los Angelos. They had already been to Prague, and Vienna. And now were going to tour Budapest for a few days. We talked to them the whole train ride over, they were very nice.

Yesterday Granny and I went to the Jewish... Synagogue... I don't know if I spelled that right or not. But anyway, we got to go inside and around and such. Inside was... insane, I can't wait to show pictures. We got to go through the Museum too, I cannot describe this building, it was huge. Our little tour lady told us about the Jews that had been killed there, and about how whenever it was under occupation the Synagogue was never bombed, but the Nazis used it for a stable, so I guess the inside had been completely torn up. But then some different countries (including the US) sent money and they got it fixed. There was a graveyard outside, and this momument, it was a weeping willow and on the leaves were names of thousands of Jews that had been killed in the Getto. It is really sad to think about all that stuff that was done to them... she told us a lot of stuff, I couldn't understand her half the time... but yea... That is another thing I will have to show pictures of.

Well, that is it for today, I am feeling extremely drowsy, hungry(hungry in Hungary... haha.)... and I think I need a bath, and some tylonal... tyleonal... ok, I don't know how to spell it, but yall know what I am talking about. So, until next time. Good bye.

Day 7 and 8...rain drops falling on my head....

Top of the morning to ya! or... actually, top of the evening. Since most of you all are getting ready for bed, or are already in bed.

Yea it is raining, not hard, but it is more then just a drizzle. I woke up to it early this morning. I am wishing like crazy I could send it home.

So, just kind of a short update. We are not going to get a car, we were, met up with the little fellas to get it and everything. But then when my grandparents went to pay for it with their debit cards the little fellas said it wouldn't work. They would need an actual credit card, well they didn't bring one. So, the car thing pretty much fell through. Now I am not quite sure what we are going to do, probably take the train. I want to ride a train :)

We ended up taking the boat ride yesterday, it was nice. Very peacful out there. It lasted for about a hour, and there weren't very many people on the boat, so it was nice. After that we walked around down, went into more shops. And such as that, when we got back we were all pretty tired, so I went and got a pizza at the same place as last time, we gobbled it up pretty fast. I had four pieces! Then Granny and Jim just... fell asleep, wasn't even dark out yet. But it usually doesn't get dark until about 9 or 9:30. I stayed up reading, I was tired but just could not sleep. I ended up not getting to sleep until about 11 or so I don't think.

The day before that we got to go to the big central market, Granny and I. I thought it was pretty darn cool, but we didn't end up staying in it for very long. We stopped and ate at this place and ended up meeting an older couple of Canada. They were real nice, said they were here on vacation, and had been here for... like... 2 or 3 months I think they said. The fella was actually from Hungary, but had left at age 20. He was here whenever the Communist Russia had control and all that, he said it was just awful. He was saying that hitlar was like a choir boy compared to Stalin. He told us that he saw a little girl steal some bread, she was caught, shot on the spot, and her parents were called to come clean up the mess. It sounded awful, he said the only way he managed to get out was because he was a border guard. Its just crazy... you can look at some (most) of these old buildings and see bullet holes in them. It will sure enough depress you thinking about it all. But this country is free now :)

Boy, we almost had a mess yesterday. We were riding the metro, and had stopped at the place we were supposed to get off. Or at least thought we were, we weren't completely sure. Well, Granny got off, and the minute she got off the doors closed, so Jim and I couldn't get out. I was just thinking... oh boy this is wonderful. So we rode it until the next stop, got off and looked around, not having a clue what to do. Since we weren't quite sure if the place Granny got off was right, or if we we got off was right. So we just decided to get on it again and ride it back to the place Granny got off, we went all throughout the station, went outside and there was Granny! She had gotton off at the right place, so everything turned out alright. I would have been bad if we had gotton real bad seperated though. But thank the Lord we didn't.

Well... I guess I should go. Granny and Jim may have something they want to go do, and I don't want to keep them waiting. Even if I could probably sit here and right forever. Yall probably wouldn't want to read it though :P So, good bye, Ciao, Adios, Szia!

Day five and six...drunk britts...and...flea markets.

So.... ello! I am trying to figure out how to type with an accent. Ha. Funny, the more time you spend here, the more you start to talk like them.

Um, anyway. Let me see...what was I going to tell ya'll... ah yes. So... Friday... I think it was Friday... no! it was Saturday, yes because today is Monday... yea? ok. So, Saturday night we ended up taking our first bus ride down to one of the fancier streets (Vaci utca... utca is street in hungarian by the way) anyway, we went down there because we wanted to check out the Folklor Centrum. It is just a store with... well, folkd stuff. They have amazing hand made table clothes and such. We went down there, wandered around the street and went into some more shops, ate some ice cream (they have the best ice cream here!) then ate some good food, walk down by the river. On the way back I heard this fellas behind us say "Hello!!!" to these girls that walked by, I could tell from listening to them that they were drunker then skunks, they spoke english, and had accent, I at first thought the one was Irish, but I was wrong, they were British. We they came up behind us, just being as jolly as can be and told us "Hello!!" several times. So we said hello back, and they started talking to us a little. They asked us where we were from, when we told them the United States they all when "BOO!" and then they started calling us Yanks. So when we asked where they were from, the raised their fists in the air and declared "ENGLAND!" Then my grandma told them England was nice, so they raised their fists again and said "WOO! YEA!" And then we told them we were from Texas, they asked us if we had voted for president Bush, we told them yes, then they went off on something about Bush, and then raised their fists and said "Hilary Clinton!" Well after all this we came to our street, waved and told them good bye, and they blew us kisses. I had to hold down laughter the whole time, they were just so gosh darn funny! It still makes me laugh whenever I think about it, boy they were drunk... ha ha. That was my first time of being called a Yank, doubt it'll be the last, ha... hahaha... oh wow.

Its just fun coming across some people. Later that night whenever we were in bed, I heard a bunch of guys singing. I wondered if it was them. We heard a lot of singing that night, there was all kinds of noise, and people out and about, probably because it was Saturday night.

Yea... Yesterday morning we walked all the way down to a flea market... it was.. umm.. well, it was a flea market :P there was some neat things, and a lot of junk. I really wanted to buy this really cool, and really old camera. But I didn't, I don't really know what I would have done with it, it would have just been neat to have. After out little flear market excursion we stopped and had some Thai food then went back to the apartment, and.. slept. Which was a stupid thing for me to do, cause then I couldn't sleep that night. I ended up watching, No Reservations, on my computer in the middle of the night. Ha.

Granny and Jim are out and about today looking for a rental car, they want to get one so we can go out to the country side and all that...umm... should be interesting, I mean, its no big deal that we can't read the road signs, and have no idea where we are going.... it'll all be good. I don't know where all we'll go, or even where we'll sleep. But, it will be an adventure.

Hm, there are some things I've noticed about this place.
1. People seem to love dogs, I have seen people with dogs everwhere... they also don't clean up after their little doggies either.
2. There are a lot of stinkin' smokers here. I don't think I have ever seen so many people smoking!
3. There are some really tall people here... like... really tall.
4. Stay far, FAR away from the magazine stands... I repeat FAR.
5. They do not drive pickups here, I have seen one teeny weenie little pickup. And then yesterday I saw a Ford pickup, I found that odd, so I looked at the license plate, it read Florida... hmm.. wonder how they got it here. But yes, only cars and litle SUV type things will be seen here. It might be different out in the country though... I don't know. Oh, and a lot of people seem to drive stick. Ooo, Ooo! I did see one of those cars like off the Pink Panther movie yesterday... those are such weird looking little things, I want to drive one though!
6. Nobody obeys traffic laws, its kind of like whatever goes.
7. People do a lot of walking here
8. There are lots of people who ride bycyles, and motorcycles.

Umm... yeah, those are some of the things I have observed. I imagine though that other big cities like New York, and LA are like here too. I haven't ever been in any kind of major city until now, so it is all just new to me. Well, I have probably written enough nothingness for now. So,

SZIA!!

Day four... I got to ride the metro, I got to ride the metro

And it pretty much scared the liver outa me! No, not really. But it was some what... weird. It was definitely a new experience. You buy your little ticket, then ride the escalator down into a tunnel of death. It really is quite creepy down there, and on the metro you go like... super fast... and... yeah. We had to ride it twice, since like I mentioned yesterday we were going to go see a Folklor concert, and then ride the river (which we didnt end up doing, because they messed up our reservations or something... I am glad we didnt anyway, it was cold last night!) anyway, we did see the Folklor concert though, almost got lost trying to find the place, but we got it done. Inside this concert place was really neat! And the concert was pretty stinkin awesome. Before it started I wasnt sure I was going to like it... I mean, c'mon, it is a FOLKLOR concert... anyway. But, after it started I really decided I liked it! I took some videos, and I will have to post them sometime. It really was neat, you had the people who did all this insane dancing, then some some crazy stinkin musicians! there were several violinist who were just amazing.

I pretty much decided I was going to become one of the dancers, yep. I am going to move here, marry a hungarian cowboy, and become a folk dancer, what do ya think? Ha ha. I got cultured, that is for sure. Even wore a skirt! with my ole ugly chicken legs sticking out from under it, ha. It got really cold though, and I was wishing like crazy I had some jeans! But, I dont reckon a skirt once in a while (like once a year!) will kill me over... lets hope not anyway, I guess if I dont post again you will know I died from the skirt.

It was funny, the guy sitting next to me in the concert kept on falling asleep. I had to restrain myself from laughing. And then I met, or kind of met, a really nice lady and her husband there. I was standing there, and she just said something about the nice air conditioning, and I just smiled at her, and then she asked if I spoke English, ha! I thought that was kind of funny, I said yes, and she put her hand to her chest and said "Oh thank goodness!" I talked to her a little bit, and then some after. She was extremely nice. I never got her name though. Um, anyway. Yeah, after the concert we came home and I went to bed.

We all slept in this morning, then me and my grandma cleaned up the room some. Then I got sent to get a pizza, at this place called the, Pizza King, which is a couple of buildings down, and across the street from our place. I walked in... and looked at the menu, well... of course it is in Hungarian, so I sheepishly asked the young fella that worked there if he spoke english, he kind o did his hand in a so-so way, then pointed to the guy behind the counter. Ah! he spoke some english, so I asked if they just had a regular pepperoni pizza, and they did! So I ordered a large, and waited. I talked to the guy some, he asked where I was from, if I was here with someone or by myself, then asked how long we were staying... and if I was there just to look around, or for some other reason, such as that. He was real nice, the lady in there was too, I think she spoke a little English, but not a whole lot. They were funny to watch, cause they had this really cool music playing, and they would get to dancing around, and bobbing their heads, I just watched them and grinned. I got to watch him twirl the pizza dough too, that is funny. After awhile the pizza got done, I thanked him and went on my way. Boy that was some good pizza! I think that may be a regular eating place for us, yuuumy.

Well, that is that, I better get back. I think we may go to the Szupermarket if it is open.

Day three!

Ok... so. Yesterday after I wrote we ended up taking a city tour thing called Hop on Hop Off. What you did is, ride the bus around to all these different places it went, get off at whatever place you wanted to see, then get on the next hop on hop off bus thing. We went to this royal palace thing (I so want to show pictures!!) spent a long time there, ate some goulash soup, then went into a art gallery thing there... ok... so... I wasnt very fond of that place, I got SO tired of seeing naked people statues and pictures!! it was the most disgusting thing EVER. I seriously felt like gouging my eyes out, I walked through it as fast as possible, then went and sat and waited for Granny and Jim. Ugh, stinkin... naked stuff, ick. -shudders- after that place we rode the bus around some more, and then... what did we do... Well, I think that was it, we rode around the rest of the time seeing a bunch of different places. It is so green here! it is just incredible, I dont think I have ever seen so much green. We got to see the chain bridge (the huge bridge that connects Buda and Pest) and a bunch of other buildings and such, and I cannot wait to show yall pictures! It is really all hard to put into words. We got in kind of late from that, discovered our luggage was here (WOO!!!) then we all crashed.

This morning I woke up took and shower, and... read... and read some more. Whenever my grandparents got up they got ready, and we went back on the city tour thing (the ticket was good for 24 hours) we didnt ever get off and look at anything that time, just rode around. Whenever we got back to the room, Jim stayed to take a nap, and me and granny walked all the way to the, House of Terror.

"House of Terror is a museum located at Andrássy út 60 in Budapest, Hungary. It contains exhibits related to the fascist and communist dictatorial regimes in 20th century Hungary and is also a memorial to the victims of these regimes, including those detained, interrogated, tortured or killed in the building.

They had a basement where you could go down into, and they had cells, and a a torture cell... boy was is creepy. We got to walk all in through out it, and I did take a few pictures... until I get hollered at and told "No pictures!" well fine... yeah, it was just eerie. Granny and I have been doing really well getting around here, we have figured out all kinds of stuff.

I have really gotton used to riding elevators, since we have to ride two to get to our room, I am not very fond of the things... they are just.. creepy. But the one is clear, so it isnt so bad, and small! my goodness. I am really ready to get out in the country though, this ranch girl is not liking the loudness of this big ole city! I mean sure, it is cool for a city, but it is so loud, and there are so many people. Give me the quietness of the country any day!

So, that is what we have done so far, oh and for dinner (lunch for some of you) we had greek food, we are in HUNGARY and we ate GREEK food. Whatever, it was good, nothing really bizzare. Just chicken and rice. Yup. Dang, I have to go, so much to do and say on here, and so little time! I have to go get ready for a Folk concert, and a boat ride down the Daube river! ohh and I think we might possibly go to Austria for the day tomorrow!

Bye for now!

Day Two

I am still here! and still figuring out this dang keyboard... ok and update...

Well, there isnt much to update. Yesterday we went walking around down the street, went into a couple of shops, ate some delicious ice cream, and such as that. This place absolutely facinates me! Just the buildings, the people... its crazy. Ha, and right down the street from us there is a topless bar... yikes! There is also a burger king, and and my grandma went down there earlier this morning and I got a burger. It was funny trying to order a burger in hungarian! the poor lady, and then coffee too. We have met a few people that speak english, like today in burger king, we met a really nice black lady who invited us to our church! she was just pretty cool, and before she left she gave us the two kiss on the cheek thing, ya know like you see on TV, haha. That was funny to me, everything it kind of funny, I got amused by this awesome shopping cart in the super market ealier, and just moved around so well, like... I cant even describe it, you could just move it side ways, and... I dont know, it was weird. I am not crazy just so you know.

Everything about this place is just different. I love listening to the people talk in Hungarian, and I wish so bad I knew what they were saying! and the ones that speak english talk to so, like the receptionist dude at the place we are staying talks so gosh darn cool, haha. And the weather is so nice and cool, it rained ealier, we woke up to thunder.

we havent really tried any bizzare food yet, but I do want to. Not only that but I want to go exploring so bad I can hardly stand myself!

I still cant put up pictures, because I have no way of using my computer, so that will have to wait until I get to the college.

So anyway, seems like I have more to say, but I had better get back. You all take care!

I am in Budapest!

Hey everyone, I am here!

The flight was long, and tiring, and I am so glad it is over. But it went pretty well, our luggage is lost though. I didnt freak out to much on the plane ride, the Lord gave me peace.

This place is so neat! the buildings are crazy cool! and me and my grandma already met a really cool english speaking guy in the market.

Anyway, that is all I can write for now, I am on a hungarian computer in a internet cafe, and this dang keyboard is so funky! and I told my grandma I would only be about 3ö minutes, dont want her to have to come look for me! I want to post pictures, but maybe later on. So, anyway, bye for now

Getting ready to boogie.

I'm in Texas, my bags are packed (unless I have to repack them again tomorrow morning!) We've taken all my clothes out and repacked them several times. Now we're good to go, I hope. I have on big suitcase, that weighs only 40 pounds, if the weigher thingy is working right, with I hope like crazy it is! The limit is 50, but I'll be bringing stuff home, so I want some extra room. I have that bag, a little one, and then my backpack. And my sleeping bag, but we're going to try and attach it on my backpack and carry it on.

I'm feeling... nervous, somewhat anxious... I'm excited, but then... I just don't want to be gone away from home so long ya know? I had to say goodbye to my daddy this morning, that was hard. A lot harder then what I thought, I'm not usually a emotional person, but saying goodbye brought me to tears... then I'll have to say goodbye to mama tomorrow morning... I know it's going to be good, the Lord is going to show me a lot, but that is such a long time away from home. I think it'll go by fast though. I still can't hardly believe I'm going though... hm.

oh! and I did get my batteries and battery charger in the mail early this morning! My dad called the lady up at the post office at 7:00, she said it was there, so me and him went and got it. I was so relieved!

Well, I better go. I need some sleep, I am hoping I'll be tired for the plane ride though. So, adios ya'll! My next post will be from somewhere in Budapest Hungary! (Lord willing!) I'll definitely try and write as soon as I get over there, but I'll just have to see what the internet situation is.

Toodles!

Last night... PRCA rodeo!!

Yep, the PRCA is in town, last night, and tonight also. Me and Taylor went, then Jessica and Caitlin came, so we all hung out. Before the rodeo was just not very fun though... see, I'm having battery problems with my camera. Whenever I first got it, my mom bought a kodak charger, and rechargeable batteries that came with it, we figured we could use them in both our cameras, and I could also take it to Europe with me, well I tried to use the batteries, but the durned things would just not stay up, so we thought the charger was messed up, my mom bought another one, a energizer this time... didn't work either, we tried just regular double AA, did not work. So, my dad being the kind daddy he is, called the Kodak support line or whatever, they informed us all the batteries we had been trying to use would not have enough power for my camera, well isn't that just lovely. They said we'd have to get the recommended batteries for it, which would either be lithium batteries, or a stinkin' 30 dollar rechargeable battery, and the charger for it would be another 30 dollars. So I searched and searched on the web looking for a good deal on a battery that would work for my camera, and a charger. I finally found on, on Amazon. The charger was universal, 13 dollars, and the battery was on like 4.89 or something. So, I ordered them, (this is all on Tuesday by the way) I paid like 20 something dollars for three business day shipping, I figured it would get here on Friday (yesterday) But OH NO, they didn't ship it until Wednesday afternoon, and were saying it would not get here until the 10th, I am leaving on the 10th, lets just say I was not happy, at all. I went by the post office twice yesterday, just hoping that it might possibly be there, nope.

So, today me and Taylor went all over town to see if somewhere might possibly have this charger and battery, if they did I figured I would buy it, then just send the other thing back when it came and get my money back. We went all over town and had absolutely no luck, I did find the rechargeable battery, but no charger. What good is the battery if they don't sell the charger! argh. We went to Radioshack, Sears, Rex's, Walmart, Sams, every store I walked out of I would just get madder and madder. What really ticked me off is I had been planning on buying a 2GB memory card for my camera at walmart, well they didn't have a 2GB one, they had a 1GB and a 4GB for stinkin' 50 bucks! Then I went over to Sam's hoping they might have it, no such luck, so what I did pick up was a pack of lithium batteries, I figured I could try them and see how long they stayed up and all. So I go up to the register, with my moms card. The lady looks at the card, looks at me and asks "Who's card is this." and I was just thinking, oh man! so I told her it was my moms, well she said that she could just not let me purchase anything, cause my mom would have to be present and blah, blah, blah. I was seething, I mean I know they have their rules or whatever, but me and my brother have bought numerous things in that store using either my moms or dads card, they never looked before, and yesterday they just had to look. Pooey. So after stomping my way out of there, me and Taylor went and got something to eat, then went to Target, where I did find my 2GB card, and some lithium batteries, I got a little four pack, if they stay up pretty good I guess I'll spend a lot of money and get a huge pack of them... or find a battery and charger in Lubbock when we go through.


Yeah, the whole thing has just been kind of a mess, I don't know why they couldn't have sold me a rechargeable battery and charger with the camera... but oh well. Golly dang I spent a long time on that, just had to vent... Thinking of the verse... "ALL things work together for good to those who love Him..." ALL things, even stupid little silly things that happened today... anyway moving on.

Here are a couple of random, just because pictures :)
Nectar of the gods...

Taylor, BTW those are MY sunglasses, he is trying to steal them.


So, the rodeo was pretty awesome, the bronc riding was of course the best, the bull riding completely stunk, nobody stinkin' rode! it was ridiculous. Roping was... eh, I'd much rather be doing it then watching, same with barrels. I did get some pictures though! mainly of the bareback riding, cause it was the first event and the lightening was still good, so they came out a lot better. The others didn't really, cause it was getting dark and my flash doesn't work real well from far away, it just isn't quite that powerful.

So here are some bareback pictures, I won't put the others up cause most of them are really dark, or blurry.












Yeah, it was some crazy stuff. I do wish I'd have been able to get better ones of the saddle bronc riding, but oh well. The rodeo was over about 9:30, me and Jessica wandered around, then she left and I hung out with Taylor and the Pierce boys, we ended up going to sonic (a dirty gross creepy sonic) and got a coke, then left for home about 11:30. Yeah... all in all the rodeo was pretty good, me and Jessica got creeped out by a weird concession stand guy... and the rodeo clown... yeah.

Anyway, so I have like... three more days! We're leaving for Texas on Monday morning, and my plane leaves at 11:50 on Tuesday morning, I'm feeling... excited, but really nervous all at the same time. I'm excited to see what the Lord has for this trip :) I think I have everything I need... well, I did need to get some shoes, and smallish type sleeping bag... but I didn't get 'er done. So maybe I can stop on the way to Texas or something, I don't know. I haven't packed hardly anything yet, I'll be doing that tomorrow I reckon. Hm, well. I made this post longer then I meant too, now I need to go take care of my horribly sunburned legs... (I was out floating yesterday in the pool, and got this lovely, awful burn, right on the top of my legs. Yeah, it's my own fault, I don't want to here it.) And I have to go get ready for a wedding.

Later ya'll, I'll probably post again before I leave