Next Step

In the game Monopoly bigger is better, so players upgrade from little houses to big hotels. Well not in the Ryan game. We cannot wait to downsize! We are through with hotel-living, and will be moving into an apartment tomorrow! Yep. Jeffrey Ryan took the keys and left the wine the owner gave us. (Gave us wine, but forgot to leave the T.V. he had promised, and almost charged us $1000 to put curtains in. Good thing Jeff is a fix-it guy and loves to save money!) I can't wait for how busy I will be in just a few hours. Hopefully I'll be able to improve the apt well enough to do "before" and "after" pictures.

We've been eating out of goblets with mini spoons. It was kinda fun at first--now it's driving me crazy.

This is a picture from the hallway--I thought it was so cute!
Traditional Hungarian dance and dress

This hotel is a cute little place, though. It was refurbished recently, but keeps its old-fashioned charm. They printed and framed pictures of what Kapsovar used to look like--old buildings and stuff. There is a mannequin in the hallway of a traditional dress Hungarian women would wear, some paintings, and old pictures.
This Hotel Dorottya has a cool elevator that Jeff loves. Every once in awhile we have races going up and down. (Jeff uses the stairs while I take the elevator). Or we drop things. It's an open stairway, so you can see all the way to the top. Last night Jeff wanted to drop his chapstick from the 3rd floor down to me on the bottom floor. Now when he dropped the chapstick there wasn't any wind, so I can't say that the wind caught it. But something did, and it went into the elevator shaft--never to be seen again. It was Burt's Bees chapstick and he's pretty upset because they probably don't have it over here.

Elevator

Jeff is very creative, though. Our date the other night was designing a bathroom. We both did our own, and we could do anything we wanted to--expense was not an issue :) We showed each other after 15 or 20 minutes of drawing, and Jeff's was definitely cooler. He had skylights, a chandelier, a bathtub level with the floor...very sweet stuff. Mine had a toilet, a shower...and a sink.

We've been having fun, but we can't wait to move in and start the next step of our journey.