Bath time!

Well, we've been back almost two weeks and it has been wonderful to be home. A couple of months ago we decided that for the month of January we were going to stay close to home. Hopefully, this would allow us an opportunity to do some local ministry and to visit with our co-workers that live elsewhere in Hungary. I have found a ministry outlet for the end of the month and we are headed to Keszthely later this week, both of which I will tell you about in later updates.

Earlier in the week Glenn saw that Tesco was having a Winter WOW Sale on their children's clothes. Being ever so frugal (Glenn) and not wanting to wait until the last minute (Cile), we decided to pick up a few clothes for Alec (our grandson in Senegal) that he will need NEXT CHRISTMAS when he comes to visit us. We got a winter coat with coordinating fleece hat and mittens, 2 pairs of pants, a red fleece shirt (that matches his grandpa's!), and two gray shirts. I hope we did a better job at guessing how big he will be this time next year than we did at guessing how big he would be this past Christmas. Almost everything we'd bought him was too big! It sure was fun to shop for baby clothes :-)

We had co-workers from one of our countries come to Budapest to shop and for the husband to catch a flight to America. We enjoyed having Carl, Julie, and Kelli with us for two nights. I told them I was going to put this picture of Carl lying on our couch on my blog, and that I considered his lying on the couch to be a high compliment to us; he felt at home in our home! We like it when friends feel at home with us!

On Thursday, I went to one of the thermal baths (Szechenyi) with Denise, one of our ladies who lives here in Budapest. She lives behind the famous Gellert Hotel and from her apartment you can see the Danube River. (She lives IN Budapest and I live on the outskirts of the city.)

Denise's family used to live waaaay on the other side of Budapest from us, and it would take forever to get to her house, which meant we rarely saw them. Recently, they moved into downtown and now we see them every other month or so, which is good--for me! We had a good time at the thermal bath even though the temperature outside was freezing cold!!!

At the end of December a water pipe burst in the wee hours of the morning and flooded the main floor and the basement apartment of the Eden House. The carpet in the basement needed to be taken out, sheetrock replastered, ceiling tiles replaced and walls repainted. One of our couples in town for medical care was having trouble with an allergic reaction to the mold and mildew so they stayed at our house Friday and Saturday night. Zoli, our taxi driver, picked them up at 5:00 am to take them to the airport to catch their flight back to their country. We've had a busy week, but it's been good. I think things are back to normal!

Have a great week!