Planes, Trains, and Automobiles... and feet.: Rubber Ducky, you're the one.

We started today saying good bye to our friend from New Zealand, Jo, and then left to go make some new friends. We met up with Doug and Lea Coppage at a train station and then went out to lunch with them.

They have been living just outside of Budapest and we have a couple mutual friends. They are some of the nicest people I have met. After lunch they took us to an island on the Danube and walked around that and saw a small little zoo with some crazy looking animals... and some peacocks!

After that, we went back to the hostel and got ready to got take a bath.

So Budapest is built on terrain where there are mineral springs everywhere, so there are bathhouses all over the place. We went to a place called Szechenyi (Say-chain-yee ...i think) Furdo. This is a very large bathhouse on the Pest side of Budapest. There are 15 indoor pools and 3 outdoor pools there with a wide variety of temperatures. We spent most of the afternoon there. They also had saunas and steam rooms and massage rooms. It was fun going from the 40°C (104°F) pool into the 20°C (68°F).... Phhhhhhh that is a shock! Or going from the steam room at 65°C (149°F) into the pool that was 18°C (about 65°F) even better... I'm sure I damaged something doing that :) There were three outdoor baths too. Those were at 37-38°C (98-100°F) That was nice because it was chilly outside and it warmed us up. It was a very relaxing half of the day.