Liam worked hard on decorating Anna's birthday hat and he loved decorating her cake all by himself.

Anna's working on walking and was excited for her new scooter. Liam was a little more excited though.

PS. Thank you to Aunt Katherine for the cute bunny coat. It's fabulous.

Liam and Anna were graciously taken care of by Their Grandparents' Elton while we were away. Liam thoroughly enjoyed himself.

After an overnight train ride.........

......and lot's of walking.
An average of six hours a day. Nine hours on one of those days.

Welcome to Budapest!

GGGrrrrr.....

yup, a cool city.

We went to a fabulous art museum and all I can say is "Drama drama drama". the paintings were so desperate and full of incredible human emotion. It's probably my favorite art museum to date. we'd climbed to the top of the tower of the museum and got a beautiful view of Budapest from it's balconies.

This building has an art style that we saw a lot in Budapest. I'm curious about it's history.

Isn't she cute? I wasn't fast enought to sneak a picture of her face. My favorite part is her falling sock on her right ankle.
Babushka

Turkish bath Day. One of my personal favorites. We all got turkish massages ( giant burly hands) and spent the day soothing our bodies in the baths.

Oh yeah, speedos abound.

The pools were nice and warm. They had bubble jets that shot up out of the ground and you could just float you back against them. The fountains also gave a deeper massage that I was rather impressed with.

Inside were the hot and cold pools and Mineral baths. I wish you could see all of but htere's this big head in the way.

Weak! After Eric's childish display of courage against 20 degrees C, Julie showed him up by staying in the cold pool for a few minutes. ( I think it was more like 5 minutes). Anyway, I totally showed him up.

A lovely fortification we came upon one night. It's apparently Budapests' "Lovers lane". It really was beautiful though.

What you can't see is the view from this fort gives the beholder Buda and Pest divided by the Danube all lit in it's electric glory.

"Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh" (host of angels)

so, there were a few statues left over after the communist rule was shattered and someone thought that they should make a little park to view them. It was kind of in the middle of nowhere and the statues just sat wherever somebody dumped them off. super burly, extra manly statues. even the women.

The park showed a film which was independantly put together. In 2002 acces was allowed to Budapest police files during the communist rule. They found several training films for secret agents and some film of a real stake out. The training films were acted out by police and taken very seriously.