ice-dance.com<\/a>!\u00a0 As you may recall from our previous blogs, since we blog as a team and don’t want to confuse our readers, when we write we refer to ourselves as “we,” “Ellie” or “Alex.”\u00a0 Also, we have found continuity in providing a theme to unify our blogs, usually taking a couple of weeks of research to hit upon the right one.\u00a0 This time however, our theme was very apparent to us.\u00a0 In researching Debrecen and Hungary, we were surprised to learn about the significant number of inventions, scientific discoveries and Nobel prizes that have been directly connected to the country.\u00a0 When we dug a little deeper, we were stunned by how many of these inventions impact each of our daily lives, and knew that our theme had to be “Innovations!”
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So, our day of travel (Sunday) began with an extremely cruelly-timed return to Daylight Savings Time!\u00a0 As if jumping ahead 5 hours from Detroit to Debrecen weren’t enough, we also got to lose an additional hour to “Springing Ahead.”\u00a0 We flew overnight to Amsterdam, which has become a frequent layover destination for us, and then took a short flight to Budapest.\u00a0 From there, we boarded a shuttle bus for the nearly 3 hour drive to Debrecen, near the eastern border of the country.\u00a0 By the time we arrived at our hotel, Ellie (not one who enjoys long drives) was itching to move around and Alex (not one who has to limit his caloric intake) was ravenously hungry.\u00a0 We were not disappointed — the hotel and rooms are lovely and the athlete buffet is great!\u00a0 We met up with our roommates, Tomoki Hiwatashi and Bradie Tennell, who like Alex, are both from the Chicago suburbs.\u00a0 We are off to bed now, as we start official practice at 8:30 am on Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0 Please check back tomorrow for more photos and a recap of our adventures!
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Ellie & Alex
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Oh — the connection to Hungarian innovation today??\u00a0 We would not have been able to cover the 4645 air miles between Detroit and Budapest as quickly as we did, had it not been for Hungarian aerospace engineer Theodore von Karman’s research in fluid flow.\u00a0 This study helped him recognize the importance of the swept-back wing design for modern jet travel.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n
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