settling in

Hopefully soon I'll stop spending tons of money at Tesco and Ikea, but for now I'm still in the "Hey, we really need..." phase. It's kind of fun now that we have a place of our own to decorate. Heather spent a couple hours happily decoupaging last night, and everything's starting to look like a home.
We also are starting to settle into Budafok. Friday we had a roommate night and went to a neighborhood establishment known as the Wild West Saloon. As soon as we saw the sign we knew we had to go and see the Hungarian version of Americana! It was a fun place, complete with saddles for barstools. The girl spoke no English, but she actually called someone who did to come down and translate for us. As it turned out, he used to attend ICSB! He and his friends tried to correct our apparently horrendous pronunciation. Even though that was kind of frustrating (ok, really frustrating!), it was nice to have complete strangers so willing to interact and help us. Even the owner of the place came by and asked us when we would return! So as much as I loved Diosd, I'm happy to be in another place. We're breaking free of the American bubble that sometimes hovers over ICSB, and I'm pretty proud of that. :)