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Published: October 4th 2013
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They have a festival for everything here. EVERYTHING. So when Darcy and I didn't go to Serbia, we went home and slept. Probably the first weekend night we haven't gone out since we've been here. We woke up the next morning, lamented over Serbia some more, and decided to check out the chocolate festival that was walking distance from my flat.
It's a really hard life here, you guys.
It cost some forints to get in, but oh my god chocolate. Thick chili hot chocolate, chocolate palinka (not the best), chocolate truffles, brownies, gelato, etc. So amazing. A girl's dream. I ate everything. Woops. I had a chili chocolate brownie, a passion fruit truffle, a champagne truffle, some rosemary chocolate, some 85% cacao bar, and gelato. The gelato was pretty much the best thing I've ever tasted in my life. It was in the shape of a rose, first of all. The inside part was pear sorbet with bits of salted chocolate. The outside of the rose was rosemary chocolate gelato. I DIED. I want to eat it forever and always.
After the chocolate festival Darcy and I had all these plans to go do touristy things like
see the opera house and basilica. Since it's Darcy and me, none of these things happened.
We got onto the tram and took it to Oktagon, which is a good central point for most things. On our left were a bunch of tents. Naturally, we went "ooh what's this?" And that led to exploring, which led to the rest of our day. We walk by all these food tents, but we had to bypass them because we were too full on chocolate. Again. Rough. We saw these guys doing trick shots with basketballs where they bounce off the angled trampolines and do flips and stuff. Of course, the first thing we notice is the music that's blaring in the middle of the street. Why do we notice it, you ask? Oh. Just because it's definitely a family event and the music is BLARING the n world and f word and all other kinds of words. Super.
We watched them for a while and met some Aussies, Canadians, and Americans who looked like they hadn't showered in...ever. But they were cool, so we walked around with them for a little bit. They all work at party hostels in Budapest.
We walked through this mini...thing that was a bunch of activities for kids including spinning? Like, the bikes. Ok. Also, it was all sponsored by McDonald's. Naturally.
We went through a million more tents before we got to Heroes Square where there was a giant horse race happening. Well, when we were there it was about 2000 people watching a tractor groom a horse track. So we left and tried to find the zoo for a long time. We walked around almost the entire perimeter of the zoo only to double back and realize that it was closed. Boo. So we went home and napped.
The next day I had my first relaxing Sunday. It was amazing. I don't think I left my couch.
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