Czech out Hungary: Heated up in Budapest

This is our last day in Budapest and it is boiling hot. Bill and I did the tourist thing this morning. We had not realized how far we walked when he said, "Let's get a cab." It took us forever to find the cab. We are now in our hotel room in nothing but our underwear with the air turned as high as it can go. Good visual for you!

Despite the heat, I think we have seen everything that we need to in Budapest. We did the Hop on and Off (unairconditioned) bus around yesterday so we got the general lay of the land. Our ship line had a walking tour of the Buda side and we walked the Pest side today. We wanted to see the second largest church in Hungary and walked there this morning which was very impressive. I wanted to see the shriveled hand that is one of the relics there. Supposedly, when St. Istavan died his hand instantly mummified and it was declared a miracle and he received sainthood. It is in the picture below in the little shrine. I thought is looked like a flat piece of beef jerky.

From all of the food, walking and frivolity, Bill and I are just about broke down. I feel like I may need a hip replacement from my groin injury and his bad knee is on it's last leg (get it?). Anyway, we have hobbled around and have been determined to make the best of the situation. We have a friend who is from Hungarian Jewish descent and she had some relatives who died in the Holocaust. We wanted to visit the synagogue where they have a tree with leaves for all of the Jews from Hungary who died. After following a map and asking multiple stinky people where it was, we found the synagogue. However, we did not realize it was Saturday which is the Sabbath and everything was closed. I have added a picture of the tree.

I have not been very faithful in writing my blog. I will probably write a post mortem when I get home that will tell a little more about the trip. I just looked at my statistics and I have had over 1,000 views of my blog so thanks for that.