Last day in Budapest

The next day we started at the Jewish Synagogue, the second largest in the world after...you guessed it, New York City. Or maybe you didn't. I was surprised.
Jaxon was fascinated by the Tree of Life. There was one leaf for each person killed during the Holocaust. I was surprised by how much time he spend looking at the names on the silver leaves.

Then we went and had a delicious lunch at Hummus Point

We splurged for the large family size hummus platter. We were stuffed at the end.

Jaxon loved these little old communist era Hungarian cars and buses.
Stuffed full, we headed up to Hero's Square and City Park.

This statue represents "the importance of packing light." I can sympathize with that, but he could have at least packed some shorts...hey but at least he remembered the essentials - his golden bird statue
The George Washington memorial


Afterwards we made our way over the the Fisherman's Bastion.


Jonas did not appreciate the view of Budapest as much as the rest of us.

We liked this guys because he does Daniel's scowling look when he is sitting on the stand at church.We got ripped off on the smallest ice cream cones in history of the world. Even Jonas was disappointed withe the quantity.
We liked this car and then laughed when we saw his plates. He might have to change in 2012 as his approval rating appears to be slightly higher in Europe
That night we went to see some dancing horses. I was really excited because I had wanted to see the Lipizzaner stallions in Vienna, but the are off in August. So we were able to see them in Budapest! It was great.
I quickly gave up trying to take pictures. What I have concluded, though, after seeing dancing horses in both Spain and in Hungary, is that while it is very entertaining and looks very cool, it never looks, well, comfortable for the horses. Jonas loved it, though, and showed off his dancing horse moves the rest of the evening.