Last days

Well, Pop and Emogene leave in a day and a half, which is about 2 weeks too soon. We've been talking about them extending until the end of October, and I think they would, except Dad has to get back to put the garbage out, send in his tax papers, and then do laundry to get some clean clothes before he heads to Virginia with a friend next week.



Glenn gets out the old dictionary to help him figure out how to talk to the landlord about letting us put in an electric gate for our driveway. I'm sure we'll have pictures soon of his handiwork!



I knew it was time for me to quit working so much while Pop and Emogene were here when I saw them riveted to the screen saver on my computer!!! They seem to have really enjoyed seeing all our photos of our family, our trips, our friends, special events, and our life here in Budapest. I leave the computer turned on during the day so we can receive phone calls from family and friends, and whenever the computer is still for more than a couple of minutes, our photos become a slide show. They are drawn to watching picture after picture after picture come up. It's been good for Glenn and me to see all our pictures too!



After they'd seen all the pictures on our computer, we drove out to a nearby town called Szentendre. It is a quaint little tourist town on the Danube River about 45 minutes from Budapest. We ate lunch on the sidewalk. It was a little chilly, but it is October. What do I expect?

We strolled down cobblestone streets in town, watched this lady embroider a Christmas design on a tablecloth, and bought a few gifts for friends and family.

Then we took a drive out in the countryside near Szentendre to visit an open air museum where they have 65 hectares of old buildings from the late 1800's and early 1900's that depicted the lifestyle of Hungarians.

We saw a barn with real goats, sheep, cows, horses, pigs, ducks, chickens, dogs and kittens. We saw a building where they dyed fabric, a regular house that was decorated for Christmas, a place where they tanned leather and a windmill. There were lots of buildings that we didn't get to see because we ran out of time. It was interesting, but it reminded me a lot of Williamsburg, Virginia. I guess if you've seen one plantation, you've seen them all.

However, there was one thing we saw that we couldn't figure out what it was for, and that was this hole in the wall! It goes down about 4 feet and then turns under the house. We have no idea what it was for. Any ideas or guesses?

We stopped in the bakery (yes, it was a real, live bakery, just like 100 years ago) and enjoyed some local goodies.

Looks like the sunflowers have seen better days.

This windmill was so huge that it was visible from the whole property. We saw it every time we turned around; we joked that there must be three or four windmills!

As the sun went down, we headed home.

Tomorrow is our last day together. It has been a great visit, and we hope they will come back again next year!