Monday Aug. 4 Day 19:

The big news today is what happened last night. We got hit with a thunder and lightning and rain storm that lasted hours. Everyone woke up in the middle of the night (3 am) with the huge noises. The children aged 3 and 6 were OK but the 6 year old took it the hardest. Jansci had to get up at 4 but was woken early.

The air was humid and the temperature barely 20 C so I had to wear my heaviest clothes...at least till about 2 pm.

Strangely enough the 6 year old wanted to build a ship, so we did; out of cardboard and very small. The children were very active and the first thing they did was to remove all the csigas (chigas or snails) from a flower... that was being invaded. For such slow moving things they all seemed to get to the same plant at the same time. These are NOT SMALL; the larger or average ones are the size of a golf ball. The kids were disagreeing on who should have the different coloured ones. Of course getting rid of them was the biggest problem... we didn't kill them.

Simon likes to help Gyorgyi in the kitchen. They made lemonade together.

In the afternoon it was dry enough to play badminton, so I played the 6 year old, Samu (Samuel but the S is pronounced as 'SH” so you get SHAMOO). The same goes for SHIMON. This is NOT the same kind of badminton you might be familiar with. It is played with larger birds and a small racket. It is good for your reactions though. After me the others took a turn since a six-year old has more energy than all of us older people.

As time went on, the sun came out and the temperature went up to about 26 C but humid.

We Skyped Canada again as the children wanted to see Nancy in real life. They have see all of the pictures of her. Simon is only 3 so he has never seen her before. He watched Skype the longest.

The plan is for me to go to downtown Pest on Wednesday...alone. So this will be a challenge.

Hope there is no storm tonight.