Passport to ...?

This past week we got our new passports. They weren't expired yet, but we are getting ready to apply for another visa to extend our stay in Hungary, and the time remaining on our passports must be longer than the length of the visa to be issued . Right now, it seems, the Hungarian government is giving five year visas instead of their normal one and two year visas so we needed new passports to be able to get a 5 year visa.



The American Embassy

We got our new passports that are good for 10 years, and we had them put 50 extra pages in them to hold all the customs' stamps as we enter and leave the countries in which we work AND they gave us back our old passports (invalidated, of course) as souvenirs.



Szabadsag Ter = Liberty Square

I thought it interesting that the American Embassy is located on Liberty Square. Do you think they looked for an empty building at that particular square or did they rename it when the American Embassy moved in?




This dark building is also located on the same square. It is in desperate need of a deep cleaning pressure wash!




This building is also on Liberty Square and this is what a building looks like when it is clean. Quite a change, isn't it? I know the variations in color add character to a city, but the clean buildings just look so much prettier to me.




We had company this week. Andy and Kaye do member care in Western Europe and they came over for a couple of days for us to get to know each other better, work on strategy, and a few other work related things. Above, Kaye is talking with her granddaughter via Skype while Andy talks with their daughter. It was so cute watching Kaye play pat-a-cake! I guess one day we will be doing this too.

We went into town Saturday night to show Andy and Kaye the night lights and ran into these two young ladies from America. The one next to me is from New York and they were in Budapest to celebrate her birthday! Some present! The one on the far right is from Roswell, Georgia! It was fun talking with them and hearing their fascinating stories. It was nice running into someone from "home".

Glenn and I are driving to Germany this Wednesday to attend an MK education conference for those who work with childrens' education in our part of the world and then a conference for first termers called E-migrate (formerly called Ebenezer). Be back soon!