From Buddah statues to Budapest

We flew into Budapest on June 6th. Our Romanian mini bus driver was waiting for us with a sign with our names. Because we're so important. It wasn't the first time.:) We had to go back to Romania to get our car and all our junk before we settled in Budapest. We spent about 2 days or so there with family. Telling them about our trip and showing them pictures. We brought them a bunch of fruit and candy from Thailand. They found the fruit interesting just like we did. Mango-steins and dragon fruit and lychee.


We got connected with a pastor of a small church in Budapest. We stayed with him and his wife for a couple days. They helped us find an apartment  and get settled. We moved in on June 12th! We like our little place. Very small...but perfect for us! It wasn't furnished with cool stuff like the Sofia apartment but I like it better anyway. We didn't have a working washing machine for a few weeks so if we didn't take it to the pastors house we had to hand wash...that was rough. We just threw it all in the tub and I walked on the clothes.

We spent the next 2 weeks mostly hanging out with the teenagers from the church but also preparing for summer camps. Mike began leading their Friday night bible study and will continue to do so while we're here. The kids love it and it's good for Mike's Hungarian. They love to be hanging out with "Americans". There were 2 english camps lined up; a kids camp and a teenage camp.  Kids were signed up but there wasn't a program for either of them. So we worked on that quite a bit.


Beginning June 25th through July 15th we were busy busy busy! Three camps back to back with no breaks in between was tough! Kids are draining. We were in Debrecen working with Goodsports International for the first week. The following two were in Budapest with the little church.

I was happy to be helping. All three camps went really well. People like Americans.:) But I have to admit, by the last week I was counting down the days! Mostly because Mike and I have been planning this amazing birthday trip for him! We will drive to Barcelona and stop in all the interesting cities along the way! We'll be gone over two weeks! It'll be so awesome! I can't wait to just have alone time with my husband after so much sharing him.:)

I'll try to not leave such long gaps anymore, I promise.:)

Thanks for reading!