So Marta and I have arrived in Burgas, Bulgaria to visit her family and spend some much needed time relaxing on the Black Sea. We left the States with at least one, perhaps two days of unpacking remaining and struggled to organize ourselves for the trip but now that we are here the stress of the past couple of weeks seems miles and miles away.

Aside from a couple of rude Lufthansa flight attendants (Apparently the fact that I mixed up the dinner tray offended their Teutonic sense of order!) the flights to Europe were pretty smooth. We first took a flight from St. Louis to Chicago and then from there flew to Frankfurt and finally Budapest. We only missed one flight, and had to end up waiting an extra two hours in the Frankfurt airport for a later flight. I will say that the Lufthansa folks in the airport were exceedingly helpful, which was nice after the rather unpleasant experience on the long flight. Anyway, upon arriving in Budapest, we spent the night with Kevin (my brother), Regina (my sister-in-law) and Corey and Kristen. They are doing very well and their house is finally finished. After spending the night in Budapest, Marta and I flew directly to Burgas, which means that we had no long train ride across the country and could immediately be “home” in our apartment. We’ll be here for the next 20 days before returning to Budapest for a brief stay there before returning to St. Louis on June 19th.