Fun With Friends and Flowers

As you may have already read, last week after we returned from Eastern Europe, Nathan and I had friends from Atlanta visit! Jenn and Ellen stayed with us from Wednesday to Sunday. Fortunately, we were able to have at least a little fun before I got my first English sickness. I'm at about 85% today, which is great news considering that we're going to the airport in just a few hours to get Amy and Sam!

Here are some pictures of the girls and some flowers at Crook Hall. The roses were in full bloom and were just gorgeous!

Girls, I hope you're living it up in London and Paris! I can't wait to see the updates on your respective blogs when you return. :)

I Said It Before, And I'll Say It Again

Our house in Atlanta is up for rent. The sweet newlyweds who lived in it this year are moving to Charlotte for a new job. We're so pleased that they were able to enjoy it for their first year of marriage, and now it's someone else's turn!

Below is the same exact post I wrote last year about this time. Please contact me if you know someone who would be interested in renting our house. My AMAZING parents-in-law manage the property for us, so I can put you in touch with them to get more details.

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One of the hardest parts about leaving the US is leaving this house.  I would love to live in it for the rest of my life.  It's the perfect house for entertaining, raising kids, balancing life in the city, etc.  It has a mountain cabin feel with mature trees and a peaceful lake view, but it's 60 seconds from 285.  Our dream is to come back to it when we're done in England, but who knows what God has planned for us?  We hope to be able to rent it out fully furnished for $1200 a month while we're away.  Do you know anyone who would benefit from such an an arrangement? 

The "glass room," as we call it has a view of our expansive new deck as well as the lake behind the house.

This is the view from the other side of the room.

Dining room

Kitchen

More kitchen

Guest room

Guest bathroom

View from guest bathroom to guest bedroom

Master bedroom

Sitting area in master bedroom

Deck

View from deck (the light stuff in the background is water)

Our humble abode

It has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and an optional third bedroom or office.  It's in a quiet neighborhood 15 minutes from downtown, 20 minutes from the airport, 5 minutes from Whitefield, 15 minutes from Christ Church, 10 minutes from Westside.  Basically, it's close to just about everything.  If you're interested or know someone who is, please leave a comment, call me, or e-mail me and I can give you more information.  Thanks.

Sniff, sniff...

Buda and Pest

Saint Matthias Church

The snazzy apartment we stayed in

The Chain Bridge looking at the Pest side of the Danube River

Me and my friend, Al Pal

Budapest at night

Models on the street

St. Stephen's Church

St. Stephen's on the inside

Some random door

Woohoo!

Thanks for a memorable and wonderful time, Dave and Allison! All images on this post are courtesy of the Webers. :) LOVE YOU!

Budapeshhht

This guy played classical music on water glasses. It was all Nathan could do to not empty out his entire wallet in the money box in front.

We took a train from Bratislava to Budapest. It was cold in the morning!

Here we are in an ATM vestibule waiting for the boys to figure out who owed whom money. It was a bit confusing over five currencies: American dollars, Czech crowns, Slovakian Euros, Hungarian forint, and British pounds. I'm glad we're still friends.

Sight seeing in Budapest. Booyeah.

This is the worst picture of us in front of this church.

This is the best of that series of pictures on my camera, but my favorite of is is coming up in Dave's pictures.

From the top of the church

Yay for friends!

This makes me laugh.

Spiral staircase down, down, down

Our best lunch in Hungary was at this place. The three of them got goulash. 

I got this "meat filled pancake" because I was feeling adventurous.

We got dessert too! Crepes with apricot jam inside covered with chocolate. It actually was not very good. Too bad...

More buildings I can't be bothered to name because I know Jeff Horner will find out for me

We went to Margaret's Island and rode a four person bike. It was a great way to explore...

...until we got rained on.

Great view

Our Giselle look alike tour guide

Our main tour guide said funny things like, "Rise up and socialize us!" when she really meant something like, "Stand up and mingle with one another!"

On the chain bridge near our apartment

View from the Buda side toward the Pest side

Yay again for friends!

Another church

Budapest at night

I loved this outfit of Allison's - and her Chakos.

Allison and Nathan being extroverts.

Me and Dave being introverts.