01.22 - 01.27 - Washington

Washington trip NOT READY YET!

Xiao organized a wonderful trip right on the weekend i arrived. 3 days in Washington D.C.
Participants:
- Xiao
- Jing
- Marti
- Bence

Driver:
- Bence

Altogether 680 miles, 1100 km (easy)

http://goo.gl/Y0HWK - From 1 - 13

http://goo.gl/maps/2zcuk - From 12 - 16

Arriving at Georgetown University Healy Hall

Georgetown University - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University

GU

2. george town old stone house

At the Union Station

With the Liberty Bell in D.C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Bell

Union Station inside - this place was truly amaizing! They simply turned a railway station into a plaza!

It was wow!

In Washington D.C. everything was about the inaguration ceremony of Obama.

Another photo inside

After finding a parking spot where it turned out that we don't have to pay we had to realize that the Washington Monument has been under reconstruction since 2011. Anyway we took some photos and that was it.

At the Washington Monument! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument

At the United States Capitol - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol

This is the liberty statue from the top of the building. At every place we had free tourguide with enthusiastic guides that were so eager to share their proud American history. Every exhibition was very-well designed, catchy, interactive, fun! That was the first time when walking around in a museum was fun! 

Under the dome.

Those chicks were just so bitchy. They were making faces and wasted our time as well, because we were waiting for them to leave, but it never happened. I think they are still there.... 

This pic was taken at the American-Indian museum. We were so exhausted, had to take a nap in the musem. Everybody fell asleep but Xiao. We didn't understand why it was. Fur us it was a bit boring, however the wi-fi was incredibly fast!

Apollo 11 - original space cabin that went to the Moon!

Touching a piece of rock from the Moon!

All these photos were take at the National Air and Space Museum. This is the original plane of the Wright brothers that was flying at the first in history.

At the Lincoln Memorial

With Lincoln - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial

At the World War II Memorial. I do not know what was so funny, but something for sure:)

This picture is dedicated for my girlfriend, Flora! I am standing on the ice of a lake in the National Mall. It wasn't enough thick, so i was just hoping not to land in the freezing water. It was worth my efforts.:)

At the Jefferson Memorial - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Memorial

Szep

The White House 

An other angle

Declaration of Independence at the National History Museum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

Ford Theater - that was the chair where Lincoln got a headshot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_assassination

This is the gun

We also visited the Arlington Cemetery - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery
And the Pentagon building from outside, non-resident aliens like us cannot visit the building. I am not sure if anyone can visit it though.

That was a wonderful trip! Our last trip with our Xiao.

12.21 - 01.21 - Winter break at home

About my month at home.
Dec.21. - Dec. 23. - Budapest
Dec.24. - Dec. 29. - Tarcal
Dec. 29. - Jan. 3. - Budapest
Jan. 3. - Jan. 12. - Debrecen
Jan. 12. - Jan. 14. - Tarcal
Jan. 14. - Jan. 21. - Budapest

Christmas, lunch, food, fish, aquaculture, Tarcal, spa, drinking, fun, alcohol, travelling, driving, walking, talking, meeting, sleeping, resting, planning, cooking, baking, celebrating, scheduling, pig slaughtering, drawing, framing, decorating, checking, found raising, focusing, reading, geocaching, Balaton, success, love, greatness, beer, wine, whiskey, plane, delay, arrival, greetings, presents, dinner, snow, holiday, Flora, Mom, Dad, my Brother, my Friends, Hungary, USA

That was my one month in Hungary!

Now I am back and full of energy and plans. We will be travelling a lot, so no worries you will have things to read:)

Let's get going!

12.02 - 12.21 - Third semester ends, Christmas in the US

After we returned from the West Coast trip, a lot of things happened to me.
I know, i know that i am well behind of writing my blog. Sorry about that. I will keep up with this thing as well.
Right now, i just write some rows about the end of my third semester. I took my exams, got really good grades.
Two health care courses: A-
Managerial accounting: A
Statistics: A
After the exam week we went to Jeffrey's house to celebrate Christmas together (20+ people). We had a lot of fun and great time with friends! It was truly a great end of the semester. On the next day we went to New York to feel the Christmas buzz. OMG, nobody can imagine the crowd until he/she goes there. Every time i go to the city i have a special feeling. I do not know what it is, but it is the same all the time. Anyway, we crawled through the crowd and took some photos with the Christmas tree. We also went to Little Italy and the China Town we had a great lunch there. (I was so upset because of the Peking duck, they charged us $ 55 for two legs, two wings and some breast... that was a joke really.)

I worked until the end and said good bye to my colleagues. I also bought Christmas presents to everyone at home. I draw a beautiful picture of Flora, i could write a full post of the story of the picture alone, but i dont have time for that.
I spent the last time at Alley's place, left my car there and headed to home on December 20th. I flown through Paris with a double deck huge Airbus! Beautiful machine, incredible power and the strength of the law of physics. :)
Charles de Gaulle airport sucks, everything that was French sucked. Maybe i felt this because i was very tired, hungry, thirsty, sensitive. But i would reform, recreate, re... the whole French airport system and change the people's attitude there. I cannot accept that being French is the alpha and omega of the human kind! There is no Übermensch!
Then I landed at the Ferenc Liszt International Airport of Budapest. My family was waiting for me. It was also exciting how we met and how my airplane was scheduled. The reunion is just great all the time! We had a fine lunch and I met Flora at the Collegium. And my beautiful one month has just began in Hungary!