Budapest, day two

Well, we haven't had nearly as much time as we thought to keep the blog up, we have had a jammed packed schedule.  I will try and tell you about everything later, but I want to get pictures up, too. First of all, this is a beautiful city.  I may not have mentioned it, but both of out grandparents on my father's side were born in Budapest (at least that is what my grandmother told me).  So this place has a very familial feel.  It is stunningly beautiful city, with so much to see.  Our friends, Jon and Karen have been fantastic.  I will post a bunch of pictures in a minute and leave you with one good story.  

We were all looking forward to the Opera. Budapest has one of the most beautiful opera houses in the world.  The only down side is that the opera playing, was 5 hours long!  We had a brilliant plan to stay for one or two acts, then go to dinner (especially since the 5 hour opera was sung in German with surtitles in Hungarian).  After the second act, we took a little "unofficial" tour of the boxes during intermission. One of the ushers caught us checking out the fancy boxes, and insisted that we watch the opera from there.  It was pretty cool, we could see into the orchestra pit and it was a fantastic view of the opera house.  Karen will post pictures soon.