Beer Pong in Budapest

After arriving here in Budapest I have asked myself a question.

Is my main goal of this trip to go to a different city, do a free walking tour and then go out at night? Apparently yes.

I did not realize just how much I was going to be partying here. It's crazy. Kinda feels like school again which is fantastic. I miss school.

The hostel I'm in is pretty sweet. Probably the best one I've been in yet. They take you around and introduce you to everyone when you get here. There isn't a front desk or anything ad everyone just sorta hangs out together. It's fantastic. They tell you all the great places to go, and one of the guys makes dinner every night for you to sign up to eat.

My first night here we went caving. How cool is that? I met a couple guys and we went out to the caves that are under Budapest. You spend around 3 hours underground in these ridiculous suits with helmets and headlights climbing and crawling through this cave. It's just amazing. You have to fit through some really tight spaces sometimes. One was called the "birth canal". One guy got stuck for about 4min. Kinda creepy.

We have also done the free tour which is pretty cool. Last night we went out to a traditional Hungarian dinner. 4 courses for 15$. The dinner was fantastic. It included a Hungarian stew, a mincemeat crepe with a thick mushroom sauce, roast duck (love), a home made alcohol shot (death) and the strangest dessert ever made. It was like small thin pasta noodles held together with custard and sugar with phyllo sheets on top. It was very bizarre but pretty tasty.

We were all stuffed after this dinner and then got called down to the party (dinner was at an affiliated hostel, the grandio party hostel, and we had to go down for the rave in cave party.) before we went down to the cave (literally a smallish room that is probably an old bomb shelter) we had to jump on board the jäger-train. This, if you don't know, is where you line up glasses of red bull beside each other in a huge long line and the balance a shot of jäger on top and in between each of the glasses. One person then nudges the first jäger shot into the first glass and this sets off a domino effect to all the other shots into all the other glasses. It's cool, and we had 120 drinks in our jäger train. Just a side-note. The guy who got to start the train is the guy with the best reason as to why he should. Damien this irish guy won. His reasoning was that the previous night he had been hauled out of a cab and mugged of his wallet, passport and camera. Really shitty, but a good reason to let him start.

Then came the beer pong. They had 4 tables set up in the cave to play. I got into one of the first games on a table and held it for 4. Apparently Australians don't play beer pong so there was a lot of rule explaining going on. Me and an Australian buddy, Chris, ended up losing after the 4th game to who else?...2 canadians. There was a party of 14 frat boys there from UofT. They were rather annoying I must say. If I didn't know I would have sworn they were Americans. So loud and obnoxious to everyone. It was really embarrassing for them to be Canadian.

I also need to explain the money system to you. Hungarians haven't yet adopted the euro (later this year) and they use the florin. 200f = 1$cdn. Which makes everything very confusing. Try deciphering how expensive something is when it costs 1450f when your drunk. However, everything here is so crazy cheap that it's not too bad. A tallboy in the store (btw canadians, they laugh at us when they hear about regulated alcohol sales) will cost usually around 170f which seems shocking...and then you realize it's only 0.80 or so. I went to the store walked out with 5 beers a chocolate bar and a 1.5l water (shopping like a champ) and spent 4$. I'm awesome.

I've met so many awesome people here. The Aussie, Susan, who confused us all about her real name and line of work. Sian, Ruby, Kiwi Joe, Bam, Mike, Damo, Scott (little bathing suit and all),  Chris.

Not sure what today holds. I was supposed to be on a train to Prague but I extended my stay here another night so tomorrow myself, Bam and Ruby are heading off to Prague together. From there I have absolutely no clue where I'm headed. Can't wait!