So...I'm going to Paris

This week, Rhaelynn and I booked tickets to Paris, and reserved beds in Friends Hostel, which was the cheapest one available because Paris is expensive.  We're leaving on March 11 and getting back on the 15. I'm rather excited.

It's looking like the weekend after might be Romania, specifically Transylvania, to see Dracula's castle!  Only downside is that people may also be planning Krakow for that weekend, and both were places I was wanting to go.  So hopefully they'll be scheduled separately, but if not, well, I'll have to get someone else to go with me to Krakow.  Or give it up.

This morning I found a bug in my bed, freaked out, woke up Dani, made her check for more, and got her to compare it to bed bug photos online, and was relieved to see that it was not a match.  However, I'm still afraid of my bed and consequently, am going to email Adriana to see what I can do to make sure there isn't anything there to worry about.

However, I can't access my email because the Internet connection here is so bad.  I need to ask her about that, too.  And maybe go find an internet cafe, which shouldn't be too hard because there are a lot of them, but it just comes down to which one will let me access my internet and which one is the cheapest.

Last night was a lot of fun.  We went to Okay Italia, which Alfonso said was going to be expensive, but it ended up being like $15 for some really good food, and I didn't mind because we only have plans to go out for dinner once a month.  All other eating out times are at tiny little local places on the side of the street, which consequently, are not very expensive.  Okay Italia was worth the splurge.  I tried something I wasn't sure I'd like, and ended up loving it!  Can't tell you what it was, though, since it was in Italian.

After that, we went to Palace Cinema in West End Mall to see New York, I Love You.  It was subtitled in Hungarian.  It was a really good movie- very artistic, creative, and deep.  I liked it.  I also liked the previews, some of which were in Hungarian, like one for a new Winnie the Pooh movie, which I have decided I absolutely must see in Hungarian if it comes out while I am here.

After buying plane tickets and stuff, I'm even more conscious about what I'm spending, because I want to be able to afford to go to all the places I want to go.

Oh, hey, I forgot to mention that I am now an official legal resident of Hungary until May 24.  I got my residence permit!  It was awful because we had to get to immigration at 8:15, it takes 40 minutes to get there, and I consequently had to wake up super early.  Yesterday was a long day, with much time spent on public transportation.

A plus to going to immigration is that it's right next to Tesco, so we inevitably went inside and I bought stuff I wasn't planning on, such as ingredients to make tacos, because strangely enough, I miss taco night at home.  Dani will have to cook the meat for me, because I can't eat meat if I see it raw first... It was hard to find taco stuff, too.  It was in the international section.

It just occurred to me that I desperately need to do laundry...

Don't know when I'll get that done, because today, around 1, we're going to explore Margaret Island, and then doing one of the walking tours in my guidebook.  Should be fun.  Seeing as it's currently 12:18, though, I should probably eat lunch and get ready to go.