The view from Budapest

Friday was all about friends!! From early until late, we spent timewith great friends all day. The day culminated in an open house for allof our friends in the Orlando area. Thanks so much to Pat and BryanO’Bryan for hosting the party. It was great to see everyone and tocatch [...]

Thursday was non-stop all day long. Valerie headed out the door at 8am for Starbucks and Target. She was quickly overwhelmed in Target as she started to look through the clearance items. After being with any decent sales to speak of in Budapest, it was hard to figure out what to do [...]

No international trip would be complete without a little jet lag. Valerie, Kirby Ann and I were all up this morning between 4am and 5am. Totally normal, but I wish we could have slept a little longer. It would have made it a little easier tonight.

I made it through the 5th inning [...]

Well, we arrived safe and sound here in Orlando. All of our flights were not just on-time, they were early. Kirby Ann was wonderful. She didn’t complain too much and was pretty much happy the whole way.

Since this was Valerie’s first trip to the US since we moved last summer, we were [...]

Here we go!!  Tomorrow morning we leave for the airport at 5:15am to head to America.   It is going to be a long day, especially with a 4 year old in tow.   In order to give you some perspective, 5:15am here is 11:15pm on the East Coast and 10:15pm central.  That makes for a lot [...]

These were the words of my 4 year old today after lunch. I guess it is one of the realities of raising your kids overseas that they don’t know about things that are truly American.   We will work to keep things like this from happening again. What a tragedy!

This week, Valerie, Kirby Ann and I head to the US. We will be visitingOrlando and Houston! I’ll try to update our blog regularly with ouradventures and the things that strike us as unusual after living inEurope for a little over a year. We are looking forward to friends,family, Mexican food, and [...]

A few weeks ago, I blogged about our pending decision on whether to stay in Budapest long term.

Through much prayer and consideration, we have decided to stay here in Budapest rather than return to the US. We took the family to TGIFriday’s and marked the occasion. On Oct 15th at 6pm CET, we [...]

WOW!!! The Aggies came back from a 2nd half deficit to tie the Colorado Buffaloes in the final seconds and then won the victory in overtime. What a team! This victory will prove to be very important down the road and it will give this team the confidence to never give up.

Amazingly, [...]

Another disappointing loss for a Houston team as the Astros lose the Cards in Game 7. Except for a couple of Rocket’s championships, Houston is a city of 2nd place teams. The Oilers always made it far in the playoffs, but could never win the BIG ONE. The Astros have been on [...]