From a "Kuna" to a "Forint"

June 6th--Today was a travel day and we did not want to leave the beautiful paradise of Croatia. We could have stayed here for weeks, but we had to say goodbye to our apartment, our new friends, and Denis. He was the perfect host throughout the week and was even so nice to allow us to stay later than the standard "check out" time. When we did drive away from the apartment, he said goodbye and waved at us until our car was no longer in sight. We told the kids to wave goodbye to "Uncle" Denis. He was part of what made our time in Croatia so wonderful and we will definitely return there someday. After leaving the apartment, we drove into Trogir for lunch. Instead of eating at a restaurant, we returned to the local market for a quick lunch. We then headed to the airport for our flight. Thankfully, we arrived in plenty of time to return our rental car because it took Mike about 30 minutes to get the car turned in. We did all the standard check in procedure at the airport and boarded the plane. Our plane left Split about 3:00 and arrived in Budapest a little before 4:00. Thank God for short flights. Austin fell asleep before take off and didn't even know he was ever in the air. After arriving at the Budapest airport, we went looking for our driver that we had arranged with the apartment owner. We normally just use public transportation, but the apartment had offered this so we decided to take it. Well, no one was to be found. Mike called the numbers we had and talked to several people in broken English. We thought that this was going to be our first experience of not really having a place to stay... that it wasn't going to be legit. Luckily, we finally got a hold of the apartment manager who got us a taxi that took us straight to the apartment. Before leaving the airport, we got money out of the ATM and had to figure out how to convert Hungarian forints to dollars. Before heading to Croatia, we had gotten used to converting euros to dollars. Then, we arrive in Croatia where the money is "kuna". I was just getting the hang of converting that and now we are using Hungarian forints. Its a little more of a challenge because the exchange rate is about 200 forints to $1. It's definitely a little scary at first to type 40,000 into the ATM (to get $200). You pray that you got the exchange rate correct. I'm sure just about the time we leave Budapest I'll have it figured out. Then again, maybe not. After finally arriving at our apartment, we were greeted by Nora. She was very nice and helpful with the local area. After she left, we went to Subway for dinner. Abby had spotted it on our drive to the apartment and this is her all time favorite place to eat in the States. Not exactly "Hungarian" food, but we had tired and hungry kids (Hungry in Hungary!). As we were walking to Subway, Austin kept putting on the breaks and saying "I don't want to get on a subway!" Isn't it funny that before traveling, he would have never thought about the word "subway" in any other way than a place to eat. It has a whole new meaning to him now. We stopped by the grocery store right by our apartment and picked up just a few things since we are only here for 3 nights. All to bed early to rest up for our busy 2 days in Budapest.