Day 2, Budapest

Today when we woke up we decided to access the Internet at our hotel room and see what attractions are here in Hungary. While surfing the net we found a place called the "House of Terror", and decided to check it out. When we got there we found that it was a museum of the communist rule in Hungary. We each got a pair of headphones to listen to the English version of the descriptions of objects. We got to visit the torture rooms the the commies used to interrogate government and resistance prisoners for information. In the museum their are videos of interviews with survivors of the communist reign of terror. After watching some of these we went to the prison cells. They were about a fourth the size of a classroom and had one bunk bed. After that we decided to head to downtown Budapest and go shop at the Castle Corner Shopping Centre. Here they sell alot of Hungarian hand made products. We saw carved bows, dolls, handwoven blankets and quilts, and we even tasted a small glass of Hungarian wine. Man was that tasty. We spent the rest of our day their and bought alot of souvenirs. We also learned that the creator of the Rubik Cube, Erno Rubik, was born and raised in Hungary. That night we went out to Cafe Pierrot.