Budapest Big Birthday Bash
Attendees:
Apartment
Kiran
Kate
Dan
Zoe
Mark
Louisa
Hostel A
Jim
Plague Boy
Mr E
James D
Sarah
Dan
Hostel B
Popadom
Purpose:
The trip was to celebrate the birthdays of Messrs Cheema, Dibley and McGrath. The concept was simple. Go to a cheap Eastern European country then eat drink and be merry.
Implementation:
The first problem was Plague Boy trying to check in with the Chicken Pox. How do you get on a plane when diseased? We don't know. He was abandoned while arguing with a check in clerk at the first opportunity. Divine intervention is not entirely out of the question.
Problem 2 was how to organise people located on 3 different sites. The hostels in Buda, the apartment in Pest. Mobile phones seemed like a good idea until day 2 when they all suffered flat batteries and everyone started doing their own thing.
After our first evening we all agreed we should spend the first day traipsing around the castle which admittedly doesn't look much like a castle. Here, the hostellers bumped into Kiran and Kate where they announced they were going to buy stamps. Wandering around further we came to the Matyas Church and bumped into Dan and Zoe who announced Kiran and Kate were engaged. We asked if they were sure since the happy couple appeared to have forgotten.
That evening we celebrated in fine style in a medieval themed restaurant eating meat, meat and more meat served by wenches. If the wench looks a little confused, this is because when she asked Plague Boy if he wanted a vegetarian platter he said "No, I want a selection of vegetables and no meat"
On two different days, the hostellers and apartmenters tried out the thermal baths. It appears that the apartmenters chose the gay baths since a local took a bit of a shine to our good friend Mr Jackson. He claims never to have been so happy to see Kiran. This experience led to an evening in a restaurant that ran out of beer, food and very nearly time to serve us. So unnerved by his experience was Mark that the evening descended to a very colourful stream of innuendo. No one can quite remember exactly how, but somewhere along the line of this increasingly drunken conversation, it was established that Jim is in fact the S-Division Alpha male. I'm not sure why nobody noticed this before.