That's all folks!

We had a very long breakfast this morning.  After the satisfying meal, we started doing our homework in our room.  The majority of the day was spent in our room doing homework and studying for lovely final exam, courtesy of Prof. Berliner.  For dinner we went to Fruccola, a salad and juice café, full of nutritional value.  We somewhat enjoyed our beef broths, a buddha bowl, and blueberry beef stew, realizing last minute that we'd neglected both the salad and juice aspects of this salad and juice café.  That's an oops on our part.  Nevertheless, we had a healthy meal with vegetables that is sure to power us through these final days of studying before the inevitable judgement day, the final. 

Even though it seemed impossible to capture the beauty of the
basilica in a single photo, Karina worked her magic and voila!

Who knew that the Catholic church was a supporter
of our fellow mathematicians?

As exciting as today was, it paled in comparison to yesterday's marvelous adventures.  Karina and Hannah begun their day by sneaking past sleeping roommates and wandering the city with Emily and Andrew in search of a giant cathedral.  They definitely did not get lost.  Nope, didn't happen.  They stumbled upon St. Stephen's Basilica, a Neoclassical style Roman-Catholic gigantic religious dwelling basilica.  After marveling at the impressive exterior of the building, they ventured inside on a mission to find the right hand of St. Stephen which is said to be in a reliquary at the church.  When they walked in they were awestruck by the ornate, intricate, impressive, *insert big impressive adjective here* interior of the basilica.  The inside was quite lavish and it looked beautiful bathed in morning light.  The four adventurers quickly forgot about their quest to find the old hand and instead wandered around exploring the huge sanctuary.  While she was looking at the intricately painted ceiling, a small red circle on the wall caught Hannah's eye.  It said . . . "Math".  Soon the others joined her and they gazed upon the sign, knowing that their fate as math majors had been decided.  After a while, Hannah and Emily peered inside a lavish box and found a strange dark object inside.  All of a sudden lights came on revealing the true identity of the mysterious object . . . a shriveled up old hand!  After they finished staring at the relic with confused expressions, they headed for the door.

Yummmmm Lunch!

It's almost too pretty to eat.... Almost. 

After the church adventure, the team took a break for a nutritious snack (ice cream) before they joined forces with Amanda, Penelope and Jordan on a new quest to conquer the central market!  


Before meeting up with the basilica explorers, team Amanda stopped at a souvenir shop called "The memories of Budapest".  Things in that shop were just like every other souvenir shop but they were more expensive so most of the group left without buying anything.  After the two groups joined forces they took the train to the market.  Penelope bought a Hungarian shirt for her mom and Amanda bought a shirt for her little sister and some small glasses for her friends.  Hannah, Karina and Emily wandered around the top floor of the market and bought many painted eggs to give to their friends and family (assuming they do not break during transit).  After a long time at the market, the tired travelers wandered back to the hotel.

 ~Szia~

Hannah      Penelope

Amanda        Karina 

And now,

After many days of not-so-subtle hints from our professor,

For our farewell treat,

We present...

CHIMNEY CAKE TASTE TEST!

Featuring our heroes with St. Olaf's very own chimney cake addict - Andrew!

Cake 1: Vanilla and Kakoa

Vanilla

Hannah- "It's sweet, like you're eating a very soft cloud full of love."

Andrew- "It's vanilla good."

Karina- "Tastes like confectioner's syrup."

Amanda- "It's just like sugar."

Penelope- "This one's boring. It's fine."

Kakoa 

Hannah- *Happy dance* "It's really nice. Tastes like a small chocolate cookie."

Andrew- "I've been missing out."

Karina- "Dry and bitter but I like it. Less sweet than the others."

Amanda- "I like it. It's just like chocolate and sugar but I like it."

Penelope- "It's like cold crunchy coco with a strange crunchy after taste"

Cake 2: Chocolate and Coconut

Chocolate

Hannah- "Not as good as kakoa but still good."

Andrew- "Yep this is good."

Karina- "It's good but its too sweet for me."

Amanda- "Tastes like milk chocolate but I like it."

Penelope- "It's messy but good n choco-y."

Coconut

Hannah- "The inside's fine. I wish I liked it."

Andrew- "Yeah no thanks."

Karina-"I like it. It reminds me of almond joys."

Amanda- "Coconut's really dry, not that sweet."

Penelope- "Coconut tastes bad and has a bad texture. It reminds me of past failures."

Cake 3: Poppyseed and Walnut

Poppyseed

Hannah- "Tastes like earth."

Andrew- "I'm a little less than neutral about it."

Karina- "I think the poppy seeds are burnt."

Amanda- "I hate this. Tastes like dirt. It's dirty."

Penelope- "I dont mind it, but like it could be sweeter. I like it though."

Walnut

Hannah- "Not bad. Tastes like nuts."

Andrew- "I like this more than I expect to."

Karina- "Smoky and woody taste, not what I would expect but its good.""

Amanda- "It tastes like caramel popcorn a lil bit."

Penelope- "Nuts are gross. I don't get it. Ughk."

"Slightly" Stale Cinnamon

Hannah- "Stale."

Andrew- "Stale."

Karina- "Stale."

Amanda- "Stale."

Penelope- "Stale."

As a departing gift, we present to you a lovely compilation of people reacting to one of the chocolates we tried in our last post.  Our loyal readers may remember our dismayed reactions to Mon Cheri chocolates, Well we decided the only thing to do was to inflict them on others.  Reactions were mixed (and, much to our surprise, not all negative!)  Enjoy :)

In case the video doesn't upload, here's a link to the video of our final taste test.

(The song is Csipp Csepp, our favorite song from Hungarian class.)