Welcome to our Vacation Blog!!

We hope you enjoy our posts before, during and after our trip. A trip to Hungary has been a dream for many years. The closer it came to becoming a reality, the more we thought that we should include other countries. (See our itinerary) But the main purpose of our trip is to meet my new-found relatives in Rabapatona, Hungary, which is about one hour west of Budapest. I will remind everyone a few days before we leave so that you can "come along"! (If this is your first time on our blog, begin at the bottom and continue to our most recent post at the top.)



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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Budapest Tour

Budapest Half-Day Tour:
View to Buda from Pest, River Danube, Chain Bridge,
Parliament, Kossuth Square, Andrassy Avenue, Heroes'
Square, View to Pest from the Citadel on Gellert Hill, Castle
District (Fishermen's Bastion and Matthias Church).

We have made arrangements with Judit Novoba'czky, a private tour guide in Budapest, to take her half-day tour. We will be in Budapest such a short time, we decided this would be the best way to see the highlights of this beautiful city. Judit will meet us at our hotel at 9 AM on Sunday, May 17th. We will tour, then have lunch at a local Hungarian restaurant. She will take us to Keleti Station in time for us to board our train to Gyor at 3 PM. We will spend one night in Gyor, and our family will pick us up at our hotel in Gyor at noon on May 18th!!

This weekend I will be doing some serious packing!! We've got to see if everything is going to fit. If not, it's on to "Plan B". After re-reading the Transportation Security Administration (www.tsa.gov) "What To Know Before You Go" update, I discovered that "...greater than 3 oz. of the following liquids, gels and aerosols are permitted...for the duration of your itinerary... separated from your allowed quart size bag...and presented to a Security Officer and at the x-ray inspection.: All prescription and over-the-counter medications (liquids, gels and aerosols) including petroleum jelly, eye drops and saline solution for medical purposes." So, I have a little breathing room with the quart size bag! AND I'm not so worried about the distilled water for our C-Paps. I'd really like to take enough for our first night so we don't have to immediately search for distilled water when we get to Milan. But, if we can't, oh well, good old bottled water will have to do for one night!!

Someone sent me an email the other night, "45 Lessons Life Taught Me", and they were all worth reading. But one really sums up my year of planning for this vacation! "Over prepare, then go with the flow." And that's exactly what I plan to do!! Just 19 more days, and the planning is over!!!
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