The Trip to Hungary

Today is my second full day in Sopron, Hungary. The background picture for this blog is a picture from this city. (I didn't take it, so you can find the original here.) For those of you who don't know, I'm working as an Au Pair for a family with four children. I think that this summer is going to be a lot of fun. 

My trip to Hungary was a mini-adventure in of itself. On my first flight, from Houston to Istanbul, I sat in-between a couple of guys headed to Tehran. We had a fun conversation, and I watched The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Book Thief, and Yours, Mine, and Ours. It was long and uneventful. We arrived in Istanbul a little late however, so my 1.5 hour layover turned into a 45 minute layover. By the time I got through security, the flight for Vienna was flashing red on the flight screen. It said "last call."  I threw on my shoes, grabbed my bags, and literally ran to the other end of the airport. I didn't even put on my belt! Thankfully, I arrived at the gate just in time: I boarded the bus that would shuttle us to the airplane with only 45 seconds to spare. The ironic thing is that after we got the plane, we waited on board for over half an hour. I guess they were moving our luggage. I am very happy that mine made it!

The flight to Vienna was relatively empty, and at first, I was sitting alone. About half-way through the flight, however, a group of high-school soccer players from Turkey joined me. They only spoke a few English words, (and I could only remember one Turkish word) but we managed to have a conversation of sorts anyway. We laughed a lot. One of them wrote down my name, and apparently, when they saw the family holding up a sign with my name on it, they told them where I was. :)

I'll write another post about my experience in Hungary thus far. If I continued here, this post would be much too long. And yes, I will take pictures. Patience, Mama. :)

Szia!
Renee