This must have been our 10th or 11th year present at the St Istvan Day celebrations on August 20th. This is in celebration of Hungary's birthday. Actually, this is the first year that we sat through and watched the Red Bull Air races. They were incredible! We were fortunate enough to get some VIP tickets into the Red Bull area which was set up front row and center to the show. The Red Bull's section included their control tower, all inclusive drinks, food, suntan lotion, etc. They set up bleachers and lots of lounge areas in the shade. It was really fun.
We went down there around noon and met up with a big group of friends. It was really exciting. Many of them brought their older children but we chose to leave our threesome behind. Instead, they were excited to go spend the day and night over at Brigi's house.
Just to give you more information about the Red Bull races I included this schedule to show you how lucky Budapest is to even get them here ever year in conjunction with the other festivities.
The pilots are timed on how quickly they can maneuver through the obtacle course (see the giant inflatable cones on the river below) between the Chain bridge and Elizabeth Bridge. It was pretty wild and one pilot even managed to clip the cone with his airplane's wing while flying in between. Another pair of cones were so narrow that the pilots had to fly through vertically!
Our VIEW
And below is our gang.
Notice Curt in one of the Fatboy (this is the brand name) bean bag chairs. They were tons of them all over the shaded areas.
Below are friends that we ran into at the event.
After the Red Bull air races we went out for an Italian dinner and then up to Deana and Dan's (photo of them up above in top left position) home to watch the fireworks display from their rooftop terrace.
