Adventure Day! (aka. high stress day)

So our morning started early today around 7:30, of course I couldn't sleep well, why you ask, because as per Erin's immune system it's apparently time to get sick. So in Erin classic fashion I gotta go get meds at a drug store. Not like I don't already have a crud ton of meds with me and as some of you know I prepped myself before the trip in hopes of building up my system...well it didn't work and I am so mad at my body for not being able to withstand the European virus strains.

Anyway, the story for today again, early to wake so we could finally find a place to get postcard stamps, you wouldn't think it was so hard to find them but it was. So luckily between the pharmacy and the post office we only had to wait until 8a for them to open. I won't bore you with the cash/ATM issues that we had. The big issue for the day was the rail reservations that Lisa made. The company had sent us confirmation and had given a code we were "suppose" to put into a machine to print tickets. Well we went to information to inquire about getting them printed out and the lady said no tickets paper is ticket...well let's just say she was wrong, or the language barrier was too big, or the stars weren't aligned because it wasn't a ticket, and no one would accept it as such....Some part of us knew that there was going to be a problem but we didn't have the tools to rectify it so we just had to go along with the day. It cost us extra to buy tickets while on the train (the irony is we sat in our RESERVED seats the entire way). I do have to admit that the ticket collectors treated us really well. There we were helpless to the system that had failed us and at least a small life line was thrown out there. One ticket guy even let us pay at a certain stop because that was where we would be able to hop off and get money from an ATM and then hurry and hop back on, he even guided me to it, very nice man (oh and discounted the cost to boot!). Then the third guy was pretty nice too and gave us a cost break as well, at least there was that.

We finally arrived in Budapest, hungry tired and a bit on the done with it side. We checked in fine and since I am sick I thought hey, why not get a taxi to the good restaurant we wanna visit. So taxi it was, get there and....plumbing problems, they are closed. But the owner was nice enough to give us directions to another place back one main road, so we had to walk a ways anyway. Get to the recommended restaurant and...closed to public for private party. Ok well then we wandered down he street which was away from our hostel and tried to find Hungarian food, no luck, a bunch of Chinese and cafe food places with an Argentina place crammed in there. We finally find a place, go in and...kitchen is closed. Ok onward through the fog, pizza place, can't go wrong, walk in and they are completely ignoring us, ask if they are serving food they say hold on a minute, we get pissed at them and leave. Next we walk into a bar/restaurant and they say yeah the kitchen is open, the guy goes to get a table and...none available and the last one was reserved. Definitely am done at this point and want to forget it all, so we head back to our hostel and....get bread, cheese, meat, yogurt at the grocery store across the street.

Day done, no more to say, see you tomorrow.