It's been an eventful weekend so far. Daniel and I took Friday off work so that we could head into Budapest to collect our friend Sofie from the airport. She's planning on staying with us until Tuesday and then she's travelling to Norway to check out lots of cool stuff up there (so jealous!)
Anyway, Sofie was supposed to arrive at 11.15am yesterday. Daniel and I turned up at the airport at 10am only to discover that Sofie's flight had been delayed. No problem - we grabbed a couple of drinks and killed some time sketching out some lesson plans in the airport's coffee lounge. But then, after waiting around for another hour or so, we discovered that the flight had been cancelled altogether - poor Sofie was stuck in Prague airport until the next available flight to Budapest (arrival time 6:20pm).
I won't go into all the boring details of how we spent the rest of the day, other than to say that we finally managed to find the time to thoroughly clean and vaccuum our car...and discovered our 'lost' GPS unit in the process. I was so happy that I cried.
Returning to the airport at 5pm, Daniel and I resumed our waiting game. There seemed to be paparazzi hanging around the arrivals area, so I was on the lookout for celebrities and had my camera at the ready in case someone famous suddenly appeared. Unfortunately, apart from one guy who vaguely resembled Ralph Macchio (aka Daniel LaRusso from the Karate Kid movies), there were no celebrities to be seen.
But here are a couple of pictures that we took of ourselves while we were waiting!
Soon after we took these photos, Sofie finally arrived in Budapest and the three of us piled into our car and set off on the 2.5 hour journey home, all of us a little tired and cranky after our long day. Unfortunately, about two minutes into the journey, our car chucked a massive hissy fit and we had to slow right down in order to ensure that we would make it home. Not fun.
Thankfully, today was a little better. In fact, we even managed to hire a car and get ourselves to Nyíregyháza for lunch. We also met up with our friend Christie who deserves credit for providing the inspiration for this entry's interesting word. Christie tells us that püp (pronounced the same as poop in English) means lump or hump. Hence, the delightfully fun expression, "Hey, I've got püp on my face". Classic stuff.Anyway, welcome to Hungary, Sofie - we promise it will be more fun tomorrow!
- Amanda
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