Glenn and I have been home since the end of January and have been able to take care of a few projects around the house, such as touch-up painting. It's just not worth the effort to have our landlord paint the inside of the house so we periodically wield the roller and do it ourselves.
We had a guest from Prague come stay with us for a few days. Kim brought us a gift of pre-homemade packets of "Cake in a Mug". If you aren't familiar with it, you basically mix small quantities of flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and cocoa powder and put it in small baggies. When you're ready to make it, you add milk, egg and oil, and pour into a large coffee mug, pop it into the microwave and bake on high for 1½ minutes.
Kim gave us a couple of caramel candy bars to break in half and stick a half piece into the middle of the batter before baking in the microwave. Voila, an extra moist cake that is an individual size!
Joe came for dinner one night and we fixed the mug cakes for dessert. Quite a hit!
My cousin, Anne, and her husband, Ron, came to Budapest to take a Danube River cruise, arriving 2 days before boarding the ship. Glenn and I met them at the Marriott Hotel on the river this morning, and spent a couple of hours showing them the city.
We've had beautiful weather all week but, unfortunately, yesterday afternoon the wind, cooler temperatures and clouds blew in with a vengeance! When we picked them up at the hotel this morning, it was raining and the wind was blowing so hard that our umbrellas turned inside out. We were thrilled when the sun came out about noon. I got to show my cousin and her husband our beautiful city at her finest!
We walked and walked and walked, and finally found a bench up in the Castle District, overlooking the city.
This is what we saw from our bench! Notice that the trees are bare of leaves, but the grass is very green. Spring is just around the corner! Yea! I'm so ready for warm weather.
If you look closely, you can see the Parliament building in the distance through the arch.
And here is the Parliament building from up river.
When we walked Anne and Ron back, we saw this mailbox outside their hotel. Kind of unique, isn't it? The little white piece of paper on it says that the pick-up time is on Mondays between 3 and 5 pm. Only once a week pick-up! How interesting. Hope those hotel guests didn't want postcards to family and friends to make it to the U.S. before them!
We'll be traveling again soon. :-) It's been nice to be home, but it will be nice to visit our folks again!
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