Our Story So Far...

OK. So last June Anna had to go to the UK for the whole month on business. 3/4 of the way through she calls me and says that her boss called her and asked her to go to Budapest, Hungary for work. At first, I was kinda upset...I mean she was already gone for a month and how long would this trip be and when would she have to go?

That's when she explained that it was for 2+ years and it was to move the whole family over. Holy Cow! We had always talked about accepting a European assignment if it was offered but "always" was before we had kids. And Hungary was a little bit further East than I was originally hoping for.

Now, at this point, the only thing I knew about Hungary was that in Harry Potter, their dragon was the Hungarian Horntail...not very helpful info.

After some research and much discussion we decided that this was too good of an opportunity to pass up.

So...now it's January and here we are now living in the Marriott Executive Apartments in Budapest.

Well, that pretty much skipped past a bunch of stuff. As I get time I will fill in some of the blanks but pretty much everything has been great so far. We are getting to know a little more about Budapest everyday. We've gone house/apartment hunting and have found a great place to live and expect to move in on Feb 1st (assuming our stuff gets here in time).

Katie is VERY excited about starting at her new school on Monday. Tomorrow we are going out to the school (American International School of Budapest) to take a tour and wrap up some paperwork stuff).

That's it for now. Katie just reminded me that it's snack time and "What were we going to have?" I offered a bowl of pretzels and 1 cookie each. She countered with "How about an apple instead?" My kid turned down pretzels and a cookie for an apple. Are we great parents or what?