Settling in in Debrecen

We've been here 3 weeks now. Some things are becoming familiar, others are becoming increasing frustrating. We all thought it was pretty hard to come home from Vienna to Debrecen. Vienna is such a modern, bustling city with wonderful food, clean streets, cool museums, and everything seems easy. Here in Debrecen it's dirty, there's graffiti everywhere, and things seem harder since few people speak English and there just isn't that much to do (being a tourist and having kids to entertain). So, we had a mellow week: we lived without a refrigerator for a few days (it broke while we were in Vienna), we tried to go see Ice Age 3 but learned it was dubbed in Hungarian, we had a mellow day trip to a National Park, we found peanut butter at a big grocery store and bought it.

No complaints though. We're having some laughs too: After I learned at our Hungarian lesson to say, "I would like one adult ticket and 2 children's tickets" and then attempting to say it at the waterpark, the woman said to me, "Do you speak English?" "Yes!" I said. She then said, "It sounded like you were trying to speak Hungarian!" Haa! Well, so much for my attempt. :)

At the National Park yesterday we bought tickets to what we thought was a horse show, but it turned out to be a horse drawn carriage ride! Oh well - something to do with horses anyway.