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Destination USA…

June 5, 2013

Szabadsag Szobor

Finally, the Day has arrived. We are heading back home afterStatue of Liberty having spent close to a month in Hungary.  I and the dogs have had a wonderful and memorable time.

 

But I am not very fond of travel-day drills. Early rise, check luggages, check all paperwork, coordinate with the car rental place, checking, double checking, triple checking… ticket, dog papers, passport, vallet etc. Than the worry about traffic, parking at the airport, the glove compartment, do not forget the phone charger… anything under the seat.. ?

than the juggling act of moving the dogs, crates, luggages into the building, check in the dogs, than the emotional farewell from my sister and niece…

…It is always so hard… all those memories of 50+ years hit you again…love, passion remorse, regret,  panic and the separation anxiety…it is so hard to part from each other…

than I check in, turn around, look at them one more time… I always save these last pictures for the flight. Then the quiet walk to board the plain in the tunnel, the moment to compress all recent memories…  Get my seat, peak at the people seated next to me and wait for the departure…

Where is my drink…?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day Trip to the Country, Pumi History, Palinka Festival and Nostalgia…

Kate Pinches' Magic Pumi Carpet. My Pumis would have been safer to fly on it to Hungary from the U.S. than on Lufthansa...

Kate Pinches’ Magic Pumi Carpet. My Pumis would have been safer to fly on it to Hungary from the U.S. than on Lufthansa…

May 16, 2013

Thursday I went to visit Anna Varadi, Kaffogo Agyag’s breeder in Alsopahok at the western tip of Lake Balaton. Agyag and Fruska was thrilled to play and run in the countryside with Anna’s dog after their high-rise building experience at my sister’s home in Buda.

An animated sequence while talking to my husband Laszlo via Skype...

An animated moment while talking to my husband Laszlo via Skype…

While on the road, I’ve also visited Lovasz Gyorgyne in Kapolnasnyek an important figure in the history of the Pumi in Hungary.  It was an interesting experience to leap back in time and listening to old stories of the breed.

Once back in Budapest, in the evening, my sister’s family took me to a Palinka Festival to Erzsebet-ter on the Pest side of the city – a very Hungarian way to finish a great day – I may add…  The evening brought back old memories from the

My sister Zsuzsanna, my nephew Raymond and me.

From right to left, my sister Zsuzsanna, my nephew Raymond and me. (Everybody Loves Raymond…:-))

1580’s when I used to live in Budapest after moving here from Transylvania…