European Adventures

So, I'm pretty bad at keeping up on this blogging thing, but I'll keep trying. I got back from Fall Break on last weekend and before that explored some familiar places and some new places around Budapest and went to Romania on one of our group outings! I'll start in Budapest before Fall Break.

Temesvár utca. This is the street I live on...it's pretty cute.

Trusty ol' trams. 47 is the one we take to Pest, and 41 and 18 take us to northern Buda...or southern Buda (like Savoya Park for groceries).

LEVES. (which means SOUP.) and Yummy Noodles are two of our favorite places for cheap food to go.

Sugar! is this really, really, really yummy bakery/sweet shop.  Maddie and I shared three desserts between ourselves...oops.

There was a super cool design fair called WAMP...I couldn't resist buying the cute earrings.  Also, I like this picture because I unintentionally caught the typical Hungarian, well European, greeting of the double air-next-to-the-cheek kiss on camera.

And Gellert Hill is always beautiful, even if it is a pain to walk all the way up.

 And now for Lupeni, Romania.

Here's part of the little village on the mountainside that we stayed in...it was nice, even without electricity on the first night :P

A heard of sheep coming up the mountain as we were heading down.

Apartments in Lupeni.

SO MANY PUPPIES EVERYWHERE!

Not quite sure what he was doing...

The Bates' home where we were invited to dinner one night.

Romania was really quite beautiful :)

The icon tunnel leading to the Orthodox church.

And...a random bear that they keep on the mountainside. All of the Romanians are terrified of bears.

And Fall Break which consisted of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria!

Bavaria.

This church was SO TALL.

The Glockenspiel! We got to hear/see it play!

Neuschwanstein Schloss. This is the castle that Cinderella's castle was modeled after! It was beautiful.

We had to go to the Hofbräuhaus since we were in Munich! The Sauerbraten was DELICIOUS.

Eating ham/bacon and onion baked things in Friedrichshafen with Kathi!

Bodensee.

Super narrow alleys in Zurich.

CHOCOLATE EVERYWHERE :D

So I bought some :D

Innsbruck was so gorgeous and surrounded by mountains!

Innsbruck from up in the mountains.

The Mozart Bridge in Salzburg!

What a beautiful city.

Modeling shoot at the gazebo in the Sound of Music :P

The front of the Von Trapp family's home!

The back of the Von Trapp family's home!

And...taking a tour of the salt mines near Salzburg!