The view from Budapest

Well, I don’t have any pictures of our night at the Astros-Rangers Game, but here are some of the ups and downs of the evening.

Up – Great deal on tickets. We got 4 tickets, 4 hot dogs, 4 20 oz cokes, and 2 Astros hats for $48. Face Value on the tickets was $48 so [...]

Today is my wife, Valerie’s, birthday!! She is 37 (I don’t think she minds if I tell you)!

I’m blessed to have such a wonderful friend to share the adventures of life with.

Leave a comment here to wish her Happy Birthday!! We are going to the Astros-Rangers game tonight to celebrate. [...]

Last night we watched game 7 of the NBA Finals. Our older three kids stayed up and watched it with us and I realized that if we lived in the US, then this wouldn’t be such a big deal to them. They looked forward to it all day and all 3 of them [...]

Perini’s Ranch SteakhouseOriginally uploaded by Budapest Tom.

We have spent the week in Abilene Texas with Valerie’s family at Valerie’s older sisters house. Her older sister has 7 kids and her younger has 1 so in all there were 20 of us together.

We ate dinner at Perini’s Ranch Steakhouse and it was unbelievable. We can’t [...]

Valerie and I went to see Mr. & Mrs. Smith last night. It was a great movie!! It had great potential to be corny, but it was clever and very entertaining. Valerie commented that there was a little too much shooting and I questioned whether it was possible to have too much [...]

Two Days in the US . . . Two rounds of Golf

I love this country!!!!

In getting ready to travel to the US, I haven’t had much time to blog lately. I caught up on the last week this morning. Be sure to read down to catch up on the latest!!!

After 2 years, are now back on American soil. It felt good to step off the plane and be able to read all of the signs. Then, we stepped up to the counter at Passport Control and the guy started up a conversation with us. We talked about living in Hungary and [...]

On the bus to our hotel in Paris, we began talking with a young couple from Romania. They had also missed the connection from the Budapest flight to the Houston flight just like us. They told us that the husband, Elidad, had won a lottery to get a green card to move to [...]

Spears Kids Originally uploaded by Budapest Tom.

After realizing that we were going to spend the day and night in Paris, our thoughts went immediately to our friends, the Spears, that have lived there for about a year. We lived just a 1/2 mile from each [...]