I had to take a picture of this Nevada Eszpresszo bar we happened to see in our travels. I haven't lived there for a long time but "Home means Nevada to me."
This is a Hungarian wedding procession that we happened upon in a small town on one of our frequent trips to our little branch in Békéscsaba.Here's a beautiful little buck with its antlers still in velvet. Deer are a usual sight in the fields and forests of Hungary. They're not usually spotted like this one. They are always much smaller than the deer at home; about half the size!
We went with our young missionaries on a P-day to check out some ruins near Békéscsaba.
Andrea was fearless. Although I crossed this beam too, I was much more nervous than she was.
Missionaries shouldn't be doing dangerous things like this.
Once it was a beautiful palace, now trees grow inside it.
This palace was built early in the 1900s but it got bombed in World War II. After that, it was left to the elements and to local scavengers.
Compare this side of the ruins to the picture below.
This is what the palace looked like in its heyday.
Hungarian used to be written with these rune-like letters.
This is the same town name in modern letters. It took us awhile to say it right, but it just rolls off our tongues now.
On another free day, we took a trip to visit a senior couple in Sopron which is near the Austrian border. On the way, we stopped at Lake Balaton, the only truly large lake in Hungary. It is a major vacation destination.
The red siding on this store is actually strings and strings of paprika peppers.
Paprika anyone?
Do you know the way to Sopron? Hmm, she doesn't speak much Hungarian either. I guess we're not the only dummies.
Andrea like this pottery house.
I love this picture.
Back on the road to Sopron we saw this castle which looks a lot like we've always expected a castle to look. No time to get a closer look though.
The Austrian/Hungarian border near Sopron, is actually a rather historical place. This doorway represents the passage from the Soviet controlled block of countries into freedom in the West.
This is where, in 1989, the first big rupture in the iron curtain happened. It was the first step in the Berlin Wall coming down. For details about this Historical event, look up the Pan-European Picnic.
It's really a pretty interesting story. Here is some of the fencing that maintained the border here. Before 1989 people were shot dead trying to escape across this border.
This is the couple that serves in Sopron, the Flammers, who showed us around.
Back to Szeged. One more outside BBQ for the single young adults before colder weather comes.
We said goodbye to Sister Smith who finished her mission in August after finishing all of her hard work on the Young Adult conference.
We also said goodbye to one of our wonderful young adults who left to take an au pair job in France.
Andrea still has people in the branch making stocking caps. I'm looking forward to the day when we run out of yarn. She taught two midweek Relief Society classes to make caps.
We had another Senior Missionary Training day in August. This is the pretty half of our group.
This is the half I belong to.
I made Andrea do this Marylin Monroe pose. What a good sport. That's it for August. We love you all.
Looks like you two made good use of the weather. It's fun to see the Young Adults that we actually met when we were there. I'm glad there is no shortage of yarn:)
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