Traveling with technology

Sitting here in a hostel bunkbed in Budapest, I realize how cool it is to have a netbook and free wifi in most hostels. I had a video chat with a friend a bit ago on skype and I've been able to sit around and blog or check the latest scores of the world cup the entire time we've traveled. It's been awesome to look up stuff we want to see and find stuff about it prior to checking it out. Every time we've arrived at a new hostel, we check on the next one we'll be staying at and make our reservations at that point. It's worked out great thus far.

We were going to take a late train out of here tonight and we had made reservations in Prague already for tomorrow and the next couple days, but we've decided to stay one more day in Budapest and we'll just take an earlier train tomorrow. All stuff that we're able to do with the awesomeness of technology at our fingertips. I've been able to upload photos at the end of the day, but all have been uploaded straight out of the camera. I'm not looking forward to having to edit a bunch of them when I get back to the US, but I'm sure I'll have some good ones later.

We are going to check out a free Rod Stewart concert tonight in a park... weird I know, but it seems like the cool thing to do. We've had some pretty cool roomies here in Budapest that we hung out with last night. They wanted to go check out a park but not go alone, we figured out why when we got there... but it was pretty cool.

We filled up a couple bags with booze and strolled down to this park where it seems a few hundred thousand people go just to sit around, drink, and people watch. Lots of teens there, along with some older folks but it was mostly for the kiddies it seems. It was like a license to drink for the kids, and as long as they stayed in the park and did their business they wouldn't get hassled. So you can imagine there's a ton of kids chugging beers I could never pronounce if I tried, and drinking mixed drinks they have no idea how to make.

The two ladies we went with are both around 25 and incredibly good looking and have b/f's back in California where they are from. Nothing crazy or looking for hookups (no need to be jealous Bobbi, no funny business here) but they were cool company to hang out with for the night. We just found out that the hostel we're in will do your laundry for free if you stay 3 nights so that's absolutely awesome... they even dry it, which we've not run into since we've been in Europe. Dryers tend to not exist in the places we've been, meaning everything is line dried, which suuuuuux when you're not in a place long, our first laundry was in transylvania a few days ago, when it was raining. I've been wearing semi-damp clothes since with not a febreeze bottle in sight...lol.

We're about to go check out some big bath deal that's all the rage here, it's pretty much a hotspring in the city that everyone who comes here says you have to go, so we're gonna do that today before seeing Rod Stewart (That sounds funny to even say it...lol.)