Beautiful Budapest

It definitely worked out to our advantage that the only travel plans.. or any plans for that matter, for Spring Break was at the very end of break.  Because Josie was so sick it was SO nice not to have ANY thing else to worry about for those first 10ish or so days of break.  But on the Thursday of the second week we had a trip booked to Budapest and it came at just the time Josie was feeling nearly herself again.
We had a late night flight so that Marty could still do his radio

show before we took off.  He finished up the show at around 6:30 PM and we were off on a bus by 7PM for our 10PM flight to Budapest.

It was a short, one and a half hour flight to Hungary and everyone did well.  The kids are so used to flying and we are all so used to traveling that we just throw a few things in a backpack a couple of hours before our flight.  Because we book with the low cost airlines we are only allowed one backpack each which really makes you cut down on any non-essentials.

We arrived in Budapest without incident and then make our way to our Airbnb.  Many years ago, when Airbnb first became a thing we were big fans.  We had pretty good luck and would also try to go the Airbnb route if possible.  But once moving to Europe we have had one bad Airbnb after another so we have been booking more hotel rooms.  But... we wanted to give Airbnb another try.  We paid a bit more and got a nicer place.  Budapest is really pretty cheap so it felt like the place to splurge a bit.  Our place was in a perfect area of Budapest - within walking distance to nearly everything with loads of good restaurants nearby.  The place had been recently remodeled and everything looked really nice.  Josie had her own room and bathroom which she LOVED.  Marty and I

had a nice bedroom with compfy bed and Benjamin was thrilled to have the whole pull out couch to himself.  We all went straight to bed when we arrived as it was well past midnight.

After a couple of hours Marty hears Benjamin throwing up.  Benjamin from the youngest of age has had a weak stomach.  On nearly every trip he throws up within the first day or two or if he gets really tired.  After he throws up he is perfectly fine.  Like the minute after he throws up - boom. Back to normal.  Unfortunately he was so tired that he didn't even get up, he just threw up right on the couch.  We quickly bathe Benjamin and put him in our bed while we clean up. Without many cleaning supplies, Marty and I do our best to clean up the mess.  We do a pretty good job and are thankful that there is a washing machine in the unit.  We throw the dirty sheets in along

with the dirty towels that we used to clean up.  Marty decides to leave Benjamin in bed with me and he sleeps on the pull out couch.  About an hour later I hear an EXTREMELY loud thumping sound.  I bolt out of bed and see Marty leaning over the washing machine that once was tucked up under the kitchen counter and is now sitting in the middle of the kitchen.  Marty is out of breath and looks frazzled.  I honestly

thought he had lost his mind and pulled the machine out from the wall in order to get it to stop thumping.  We are both so tired and disoriented that we both just go back to bed.  After lying there for a few minutes I went back out to the living room to check on Marty.  I think he must be deranged. Who would pull the machine out from the wall like that?  I go out where he is lying on the couch trying to go back to sleep.  I quietly ask him if he is OK? And why did he pull the machine out like that? 

 He then tells me that the machine came dancing out from the wall because the sheets must have been unbalanced in the machine when it went through the spin cycle. We both laughed SOO hard at the thought of me thinking he had lost his mind and pulled it out from the wall trying to stop it.  It is now probably 3am and we all fall back to sleep and actually sleep in quite late.  Josie, turns out, didn't hear a thing.

After a very eventful night we decide to spend the bulk of the day at the Turkish baths that Hungary and Budapest are so famous for. It was a very, unseasonably warm (85+) degree day.  We walked over a mile to the public pool/bath and spend the day soaking up the thermal waters.

On the way back the kids were starving and so we made a very fun and new for us call.  We stopped by a pizza/pasta place for the kids.  They fill up on yummy food and Marty and I decided that once they were back safely in the Airbnb that we would head out for an alone dinner.  Brilliant.  So fun to be able to do that again while traveling.

We ended up at a fun little place with great outdoor seating and even better food.  It was just a 5 minute walk from our place and on the way home we even stopped for ice cream.... don't tell the kids ;-)