Budapest 2 - Two Funny Stories

The Labyrinth of Courage

Okay. Okay. Imagine if there were a labyrinth of tunnels under a city - that would be pretty cool right? Then imagine if it were turned into a museum with ancient, ancient prehistoric art, like cave drawings, and you walked through the tunnels and it was pretty dark and you saw cave drawings. That would be nice.

Now imagine the same dark tunnels, only with replica art - cave drawings Joe made last week. And though the caves were mostly dark, damp, dripping, and avec low ceilings, someone decided hey, lets put some candles in there, so that the smoke will just sit there. And we will also put a wine fountain there with huge vats of wine that have been sitting out. Thats one section. The next section labels itself "from another world" and claims to have rocks with fossils of them from 42 million years ago. You get to the first fossil, which has a footprint. You read the plaque - it says "footprint, circa 42 million years ago." You look at the footprint again... and see a nike swoosh. Seriously.

This is Hungarian humor at its finest. John, Evan, and I followed the caves to see fossils of a keyboard, laptop, and coke bottle from between 45 and 35 million years ago according to the plaques on the wall. Really. Not only that, but the plaques described how the fossils were probably left from Homo Consumes, a distant cousin of ours. I think I missed some crucial weeks of my seventh grade science class.

The third section of the caves was a labyrinth of courage. For kids and cowards, there was an exit before the maze so that you could skip it. This was a series of caves and halls with zero light. We literally walked into walls until we got out. But we felt pretty invincible after finishing...

That day we also saw Hungarian Parliament, the Great Synagogue, a castle, a sweet pub where I schooled John in foosball which included both a karaoke room and a dance club room, and a Subway... at which we had lunch.

Now we are in Vienna, and we have some really cool stuff planned out. Also, we will try to upload some pictures in the next few days.