Day 13 - May 28th - Budapest Baths

         Today was to be a very relaxing day. First we went back to our favorite restaurant from the night before for breakfast. I got French toast with fruit, syrup, and powdered sugar, and it was so good. The day was intermittently overcast and rainy, then sunny, perfect for what we had in mind: checking out the famous Budapest baths. On our way to find them we walked through a few parks, seeing a few cool things. 

Some of the architecture reminded me of Vienna

  

Yep, we found a statue of George Washington in the middle of a park in Budapest

         

          We also found a cool sidewalk souvenir sale place that had a lot of food, scarves, jewelry, etc. I even found some real freshwater pearls that I bought, just like in China.  

        It took awhile for us to find the baths as we walked, but once we did, we knew it was worth it. The one we went to cost about twenty US dollars, and was a collection of indoor saunas and hot tubs, and huge outdoor pools. 

This is the building where the saunas, hot baths, and outdoor pools (in an enclosed courtyard with statues) are.

          My favorite one had a cool lazy river in it, which was not just meant for the kids. After we played around with that for awhile, we laid out in the sun, pretty much asleep. Then we sat in a different, hotter pool on the other side of the enclosed, outdoor courtyard. In this pool, one couple was being shockingly disgusting, while some old speedo-clad men played chess… in the pool, which was pretty awesome.  

This is the inside dome of the entryway

Inside the changing room

You can see the walls of the lazy river in the middle of the pool here

This is a separate pool from the two pictures above, this one is the temperature of a hot tub

          After we were all sufficiently waterlogged and relaxed, we headed back toward our apartment and saw neat buildings and unique shopping along the way. Amy told us of a nice restaurant she’d heard about, so we said yes to that and ate some really good food for dinner, though the waitress did NOT appreciate having to move a few tables together for us...

         Going home meant packing again, doing laundry, getting ready to head out the next day for Prague, and sleeping.