Budapest Day 3 - A Romai Fürdö - The Roman Baths swimming complex (not really Roman!)

Day 3 was hot hot hot. 34 degrees. so we thought we'd brave it on the suburban train to a reccommended swimming pool complex. It was pretty easy to get there and it was a short gentle walk through an amazing oak tree lined path to the entrance of the pools. Wasn't expensive which was nice! It was huge. There were many pools. an absolutely enormous slide thing that was just too huge for Roxie to tackle, she's not too keen on water slides yet, although she loves the idea of them, she isn't quite ready to brave them!

We walked around for a while annoyingly looking for the lockers - had to ask  in the end - they weren't easy to find and were up a long flight of stairs so we rented a 'kabin' which was your old style changing cabin. It came in very handy later in teh afternoon when the rain poured down and the thunder rumbled!!

Roxie loved the pools and had a ball swimming without her bubble! April took a while to get used to the water and people, after she'd had a sandwich and some mummy time she was happy to splash about.  Anyway we had a big lunch of chunky hungarian food well I did anyway - i had kolbasz  ( sausage) with mustard and bread and beer. The girls had pizza and Daz had a hungarian burger and beer! I took April for a walk after lunch as she needed a nap so once she was asleep I went in the water with Roxie to have a bit of fun with her. Darren was sitting with April sleeping in the pram but kept giving me looks about the sky and the weather. So I gently mentioned to Roxie that it may start thundering and raining soon and perhaps we ought to get out of the water. Almost the moment after we stepped out of the water it started pouring down. We were on our way to the cabin which the lady opened for us and told us to stay there until the storm had stopped. Poor Roxie was really having to deal with her thunder fears. We've had storms EVERY afternoon! Almost at the same time too. She still panicks wildly and needs to be cuddling very close to either me or Darren. April is fine about it but not so happy about the rain. She gets concerned about tables and things getting wet??!! Anyway once it stops it stops. So we were able to get changed and head off home on the train. I suggested that it might be nice to walk to the Chain Bridge for a bit of sightseeing. Turned out to be a bad idea. It was amazing walking towards the bridge and seeing the Danube totally flooded but by the time we got the the Pest side of the bridge the girls were hungry and tired and we were at the expensive side of town so Darren was not keen to sit in a big hotel and pay huge amounts for food. I thought we should jsut get an ice cream fo the girls which we did but it was much pricier. And we both got cross with each other...oh dear...anyway then I remembered a playground nearby and we were all able to chill out there. Got home eventually on the metro. Was another BIG day. And Roxie was very keen to go to the Zoo the following day....so ...to bed!