Im following through and writing a second post wahoo.

Yesterday, after a full day of learning about Hungaarian history, we decided to research the depths of it, and by depths I mean, walking deap down into the labyrinth underneath the Buda castle. spooooky. There are more than 200 caves of the Buda Castle Labyrinth that were formed over eons by subterranean rivers fed from the Buda’s natural hot springs and supposedly there's evidence within the caves that suggests that it was used by prehistoric man as refuge and hunting grounds, over half a million years ago. Then manmade connectors were built between the caves by the Turks for military purposes in the middle ages. When they needed to defend Buda and the castle, it created an illusion that they had way more people fighting because could quicly and secretly chang locations. It was also used as for treasury, jail and torture chambers. I guess in the 17th century it was used to store wine, and then in the 1930's it was converted into a shelter for military hospital used big enough to fit over 10,ooo people. Now: it is used as a tourist attaction (wonderful); but you can only explore 1/10 of it. It is supposed to stretch about 10 kilometers in the Buda hills.
Anyway, it was really cool, but really cheesey at the same time. The coolest part: we got to carry around a gas lantern, ha. When walking around it is really dark, wet, and eerie. They have really cheesey and spooky music that plays, which kinda ruined it. But once you see little cellars and jail cells, it kinda becomes real. Imaginig all that shit that actually went down under there. All we could think of was like people getting tortured and how fucking freaky it would be to hear the screams of those people. It was worth going and we plan on going back, without a lantern muahahah.
It was a ridiculously nice, warm, clear, and beautiful night in Budapest. So we sat at the "twin peaks" of Budapest (we were sitting on the Buda side of the river which is all hills/"pest" is completely flat) and took it all in. The Buda side is completely quiet but from the very top, we could hear all the hustle and bustle from across the river. From there, you can see the Castle, churches, Parliament, the river , the bridges all glowing and lit up. Very surreal. The best part of that, you ask?! We saw a hedgehog. wtf, have you ever seen a hedgehog just like bopping along the side of a castle? well, I havn't, so I followed it for a little bit, and I want one now. They are so cute. :)
Then we went to Nieda, Andrew and Claire's house for tea tuesday, a weekly thing we set up. We rotate houses every week and each household hosts an evening tea for the rest. My favorite tea I must say is Earl Grey with 'a touch a lemon and a bit 'o hunny.