Saturday July 19th. It has been 15 years today since my mother passed away. God rest here soul. I just realized this.

I am writing this on Sunday since Saturday was so full and tiring. Breakfast was usual. I slept in till 8 am. Showered.

Violetta arrived in the morning and I went to the ATM to get some Hungarian Forints. The only problem is they are large bills. In my walk, I was short about two blocks of the ATM.

We had a nice ebed – vegetable soup and some meat and rice dish. Ebed is large.

I did some work on photos and other things during the afternoon. Gyongyi told me that we were off to see a concert in Zalakaros for their anniversary but I did not know the singer Zoltan Bereczki.. He is very dynamic pop singer now but has been around for some time as an actor, stage-singer,dancer, etc. I had never heard about him but he is on youtube as well. Here is a link you can judge for yourself. However, he performed on stage without all of the other props that you see in the video.

:zene Zoltan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iIoCdMoZXs

Gyongyi served the left-over stuff pepper; it was very good as usual .

We went to Zalakaros about 7 pm and walked around the vendor area. We bought some langos (salt and garlic) and some wine and beer. We saw Agy but before she saw us I went up behind her in the langos line and said something and she knew who it was when she turned around. We thne met up with her husband, Laci; there was the usual warm greetings. We all headed to the area of the singer.

Bersczki Zoltan or in English Zoltan Bersczki gave a free concert for 1.5 h, never stopping. A song some talk and then another song. Although all the songs but one were in Hungarian; they were superbly done. The crowd and us loved it.

The one song in English was, Michael Jackson's “Billy Jean”. Zoltan not only can sing but dance as well. He did a superb performance of Michael Jackson. He finished but not without and encore demanded by the crowd.. The air was electric. Once he came out into the crowd to sing so we got a very close-up picture of him. I took a lot of video so that I could get the wonderful singing too.

When he finished, we went back to the vendor area. I lost my friends for about 10 minutes but found them watching a man performing on the pan-flute.

Again we all sat down and had more beer and wine (except for the designated drivers). Laci and Agy shared and langos and Tamas and I had a pogacsa (a small fried bun with almonds) each. We shared many funny stories about my travel and others as we sat with our drinks and food.

At about 10 pm music announced the start of the fireworks; it lasted 15 minutes and was very well done. I videod it but will use only the best later.

After the fireworks we headed back to the car and to Garabonc. Tomorrow brings the whole family to the house for ebedre (lunch).

Although we were finished and in bed, there was much commotion on the street that kept the dogs busy barking. It didn't stop me from sleeping since it was a very long and exciting day.