Yesterday -- A Tale of Food

Yesterday was a mellow day of meandering. We're still catching up from jet lag and we all slept until 10:30 -- unprecedented. By the time we had breakfast and got ourselves together and out of the house (apt.) it was already time for lunch. We discovered this new taco joint (see photo I took there, above) on this great Budapest food blog -- it was only a couple of trolley stops away.
So, we headed that way and it was quite a hit with the Devster, who informed us that she LOVES tacos, because she's had them in school, something neither of us knew. Here she is happily devouring her chicken taco

Later we headed for Vaci Utca (Utca, pronounced OOTsa is a word for street) which is supposed to be a nice area with nice shops, but somehow we ended up in (drawn to?) a mall with a silly American name (the West End). Mostly we just stopped in a cafe there. Devin wanted some hot chocolate, which turned out to be almost chocolate pudding -- though with extraordinary chocolate.

We headed home then -- Maragaret was coming down with a bit of a cold. While she napped, I asked Hadley (neighbor and the person we're renting from) where she orders pizza from. I heard her ordering it the other night when Devin was playing with her son, Cash. She said we could order it online but would need a dictionary to translate the site. When I took a look I saw what she meant (we probably didn't already state that Hungarian is really unlike any other language anywhere in Europe). So, I tried one of those translation sites where you can insert the URL and it will translate the whole site. Well, that helped a little bit, but yielded some awkward results -- sunflower paste instead of sunflower dough (this place has all kinds of pizza doughs). But Margaret gave it a whirl when she woke up and 45 minutes later a dude in a motorcycle helmet showed up at our door with a delicious broccoli pizza. Victory! Margaret and I high-fived.
The sauce we chose (lots of choice there, too) was a little too spicy for Devin, so hopefully the dictionary I bought today will help us perfect the results next time.