Day trip to Pest

Wife and I drove out to Budapest to meet with some friends. We met with one couple who is moving to Norway this week in a fabulous multi-level bookstore that used to be a market.

This room was restored and made into a cafe where we had coffee.

It snowed the entire day and the city was really beautiful.

Later we had dinner with some of her work colleagues.  As it turns out the apartment building where we met was entirely populated by one of her colleagues' family.  They actually hand-built the entire 3-story apartment building themselves, back in the socialist heyday.  (It is NOT seen in the picture above).  The lady's husband is an EE and is into RC airplanes - he let us fly his computer simulator, and demonstrated his helicopters in the nappali.