A nice breakfast begins our day. Tamas was at work but came home to eat with us. Today's new breakfast item is home-made apricot jam. It was made by Tamas's mom.

At 9:30 we went to visit Iboya (Ibi) Janos's wife of over 50 years. Janos passed away in 2005. Ibi's health has deteriorated. She is quite frail and needs a walking stick (actually a broom). It seems like just yesterday that she was an energetic homemaker. She lives with one of her children, Kati, in Garabonc not far from Tamas and Gyonyi. We walked over.
We looked at pictures of our family on the computer, but Ibi would have liked to see a picture of my mother. I will send her a picture when we return. Kati is a chef in a restaurant just around the corner so she can walk to work. She backed some wonderful multi-layer desserts for us; Ibi gave me the recipe for this many years ago. Nancy says she will try to make it.

We returned to the house, Tamas was waiting and we were off to Balaton. I thought we were just going to a beach not far away but it was a 1 1/2 h car trip. When we got there we found out that Tamas and Gyonyi have a small hotel room with a dinette.
We got ready for the beach and it is very close. The hotel has a private area but the beach has a 30-50m area which is FREE. Maybe the people around Georgian Bay could learn from this. Although it was sunny and hot in Garabonc, it was very nice near Lake Balaton where there is always a beeeze. The water was great and cleaner than in Siofok. It also got deeper more quickly. Generally, I liked it better.

For a quick lunch we had "sojtos-tefer langos" (cheese and sour cream deep fried flat donut)... it is super! And washed down with a little beer is even better.
We went for many swims and laid on the beach relaxing. A young man came around with a cart selling hot corn (futt kukorica). The only extra ingredient in Hungary is salt... so I could not eat one without the required Canadian butter.

The trip back was similar but I fell asleep in the back seat. We were going to Violetta's (and Szabolcs') new home for supper.

The home is close to Nagykanizsa in Ujudvar on a hillside facing West. Fortunately, they have air-conditioning. The home is wonderful and the floors all large granite tiles. They said it was inexpensive because there were slight imperfections in the stone...but who could tell. Everything was immaculate... considering two small children this is no minor feat.
we had a very casual supper of various fried and battered foods...onion, cheese and turkey with cheese.
Again I showed the pictures on the computer. They gave us two pictures, one from the wedding and another of Virag.
It was much fun playing with the children and I know Nancy had a tear in her eye when we left.
We gave Violetta and Szabolcs a Canadian keepsake which we know they will cherish.

Off to Tamas and Gyonyi's house in Garabonc where everyone was happy to go to bed...after a few quick drinks.