Finally Made it to New Mexico

Just a quick update. We made it to Albuquerque after a huge amount of painful traveling. So here we are and we plan to enjoy it immensely! I'll try to post pics and vids after Christmas.

Heading for home

Tonight is our last night in Budapest for the year! We are very excited to go home for the holidays. While everyone has been really nice towards us, there are just those special parts of the holidays that you can't get in another country.
I was shocked to find out that people in Hungary eat fish for the holidays. I always think of turkey or chicken, but fish has never crossed my mind. It was weird for me to hear and it made me that much happier to be going home and having some New Mexican food! Whoo hoo! It's amazing how you don't realize things like this are so different until you come across them. Also, I can't wait to not have to tone down my colloquialisms!!! Yay!

I come from the Borque!

So about 10 minutes ago me and Val were listening to some music on Pandora Radio on my Ipod. A band came up called "Hawk and a Hacksaw". We both seemed to really enjoy them. I was curious about who they were so I loooked up about the artist on Pandora and began reading. Nothing too crazy. The main guy wrote all of the music for the first album which was quite impressive. However as I kept reading I started to freak out! It turns out that the guy is from Albuquerque, New Mexico! Of all of the random places to be from... he's from my home town! What a weird coincidence, right? Well, it got weirder. As I read on I learned that his latest project was in...... (drum roll) freakin Budapest! I couldn't believe it. If you aren't a family member of mine or decided for this to be the first post you read on my blog, me and Val plan on going there to teach English in August. I found this to be incredibly intruiging. I'm going to see if I can get in contact with the guy through email just to see if he's still in Budapest and would be interested in talking with some fellow New Mexicans. I guess we'll see....

UPDATE: I tried to find an email address for the band but I guess there doesn't seem to be one there. I'll try and see if I could contact the guy alone. If not, oh well.

UPDATE 2: I gave up. I couldn't find anything right away and I thought it would be kind of pathetic if I spent a long time looking for the email address. Especially if the guy sent something back along the lines of, "How'd you get this email?"