All-Staff Conference

I know it's been a while since I've posted, especially since I have a good friend who has reminded me a couple times:) We've had a busy time since school started back from break. Aaron has been in full swing with basketball practice and games (they are still undefeated, woohoo) and trying to prepare for our week-long All-Staff Conference at Lake Balaton (see below link to hotel). He has had to find subs for 4 classes, prepare the lessons and have everything ready for the subs to come in and easily take over his class. We leave tomorrow afternoon and the conference starts with dinner tomorrow night. Please be in prayer with us about many facets of this conference. We are praying for safe travel for all the staff coming from all of Eastern Europe and Russia, restful and encouraging time, good lessons, children's conference goes well, and that all would stay healthy. When we attended the conference last time both our children were sick after the first day and couldn't attend the childcare, so that meant one of us was missing sessions. We are praying they stay healthy and can attend the children's conference, otherwise it will be a strange rerun of last time. Also, that Zach will not have problems going to his class. We initially thought Miriam and Zach would be in the same classroom and that has changed, so he will be in a different room which usually makes things harder for him. Thank you for your prayers!

http://www.clubtihany.hu/english/index.htm

Finding Nemo

Someone gave us passes to a local aquarium, so we invited some friends to join us and we had lots of fun. One of the highlights for the kids was riding the bus to and from the aquarium. They just think that is great. We saw all kinds of animals during our time there: snakes, alligators, marmosets, sharks, and rays - which both the kids loved to pet.

Here are some shots of our very scary animals outside of the Tropicarium

We were trying hard to find all the fish from Finding Nemo, here is the case where the clownfish were. Both the kids were very happy, and loved to see all the wonderful colors that God put on all the animals.

One of the very cool things this aquarium has is a shark tunnel where you walk through the and can see all the sharks and fish swimming above and around you. This is one of the moms' favorite parts also.

Here is a picture of all the moms that went yesterday.

These gals are some of my closest friends in Budapest.

Check out their website!

http://www.tropicarium.hu/_lang/eng/flash_eng.htm