The ladies in Budapest got together one night to celebrate Kesha's birthday. We ate dinner at a Chinese restaurant, enjoyed the cake that Kristie made and and then went bowling. At first, the 6 of us ladies were the only ones in the restaurant until a tour bus of about 40-45 asian men and women joined us! The food at that Chinese restaurant must be authentic!
Birthday girl Kesha is on the right-
Cosmic bowling is the same everywhere
This week has been very hot with temperatures hovering between 85-90 degrees most of the days. Our house does not have air conditioning, neither does our car, so I love to go to the grocery store, especially the freezer aisle!
Creative way to beat the heat!
Everyone is suffering from the heat, especially this Hungarian man who came up with one way to beat the heat (I didn't say it was a good way!) We also saw a young girl about 10-12 years old skating down the street in her 2 piece bathing suit. We're just not Hungarian enough to walk through the neighborhood in our bathing suits yet!
We were told we would not be given a vehicle to use but when we arrived in January, we were greatly blessed to have this Opel Vectra (ever heard of it?) assigned to us. We still use public transportation for most of our daily trips or we walk, but it is nice to have the car when we need to go some places that are out of the way. One interesting thing: foreigners are all given license tags that start with the letter C. This way, if one of us "foreigners" do something wrong, they forgive us because we don't know what we're doing since we're "foreigners".
This picture is mainly for my Dad, my brother Jim, and my two sisters Karin and Elizabeth. Do you guys remember when we were younger and living in Germany and saw these ESSO signs for gas? Ah, brings back fond memories!
Last week I showed you a picture of the one, lone red cherry. Well, in a week's time, you can see the change! Our tree is loaded with cherries but they won't be ripe enough to eat for another couple of weeks, we think. I have really enjoyed walking in the neighborhood and seeing all the different kinds of fruit trees (and nibbling off the part that hangs over the sidewalk). Almost everybody has at least one fruit tree of some kind in their yard!
I went to a friend's house today and in their yard were about 10 fruit trees! Cherries, plums, peaches, pears, apricots, and apples, and grape vines. Since our cherry tree isn't ripe yet, Abby picked me a bag full of cherries to enjoy until ours ripen. Thank you, Abby!
On Monday Glenn and I are going to Prague (Czech Republic) for a meeting with the regional leadership team and a seminar on mentoring. While there, we will also attend a graduation reception in honor of one of our MK's who has been homeschooled on the mission field all his life and will be going to college in the fall in the US. It is a business trip, but I hope we get to see a little of the city. I hear Prague is as beautiful as Budapest, but I doubt it. We will return on Friday, and will spend some time on Saturday with my Aunt Billie who is on a 3-city tour of Europe: Budapest, Vienna and Prague. I'm so glad I get to see her while she is in our neck of the woods!
Continue to pray for someone to come run the guesthouse and manage medical appointments during the Doyles' stateside assignment!
More beautiful flowers!
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Good disclaimer on that pic of 'Glenn' walking along the Utca... glad it was a distant shot ;)
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