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General Articles by Audrey Powell on 6/19/2009
Top Ten Hungary!
-Andrea! Her heart and God's love for her taught me volumes. She made my month.
-The Flood! Waking up to a flooded flat, a gas leak, and blowing up the microwave all in one day. Priceless!
-Fake-n-Bake! Cheap tanning salon across the street + 5 girls = lobsters. Crux girls visited a couple times and added some color to our faces just in time for summer J
-Miriam! The 2nd oldest child of Ed & Susan. Miriam is a complete klutz and falls all the time, yet feels no pain. We thoroughly enjoyed laughing at her walk into walls and trip over her own feet.
-Sight-Seeing! Budapest is a gorgeous city, my favorite so far on the race. Ed took us out one day to all the major sights: the oldest Jewish Synagogue in Europe, the Citadella, Hero's Square, and a historic castle. It was a fun, sunny day of exploring.
-Dogs! We took the kids to a park each morning to burn off their excess energy and the park turned out to also be a dog park! I was like a kid in a candy shop playing and chasing all the dogs.
(this pup walked into the fountain, laid down, and refused to get out...maybe he thought it was a jacuzzi!)
-Braedon's New Addiction! Braedon bet me that he would read the Twilight series if I watched all the Rocky movies. Not only has he almost finished the first book, but he admitted, "I can't believe it's actually getting good!" He secretly loves it.
-Laundromat! We lived near a real laundromat and were able to have our clothes washed and DRYED IN A DRYER! We haven't used a dryer all year. They smelled so fresh & clean!
-Arribas! We found a delicious Mexican restaurant with free high speed wifi. We ate supper there every few days and it amazingly never got old.
-Shandar! One of the pregnancy centers volunteers, Shandar, surprised us with chocolate every night in our fridge. He knows the way to our hearts.
-The Idol! Sophie (the oldest child at 5 years) became obsessed with her balloon to the point that she refused to share it with her siblings or even let anyone else touch it. The balloon just happened to land on the grass and pop, sparking an immediate temper tantrum and Cindy joked that God popped Sophie's idol.
-Worship! Braedon led worship in our flat every morning. A great way to start each day!
-Cereal & Milk! We were blessed with a fridge this month and we all ate cereal and cold milk each morning. Not warm, whole milk that we got from the cow next door (like in Moldova) but cold, refreshing, processed, skim milk!
-Crying Children! We took the kids to the park each day and it never failed that at least one of the three would cry over something. Since the kids don't speak English and we don't speak Hungarian, we quickly realized that trying to convince a screaming child in a public park to follow you when you don't even speak their language looks very sketchy to onlookers.
-Bones! Thanks to Angi, Crux finished each day with an episode of our beloved Bones. How we love that Agent Booth :-)
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As we were leaving to wander the city later that afternoon, I smelled gas fumes in the office. Somehow, the flat had been leaking gas and we didn't realize it until then. We aired out the apartment and left before it poisoned us. Then, after supper the fumes disappeared and Audrey got the bright idea to boil an egg in the microwave, since we're lacking a stove this month. She put a whole raw egg into a bowl of water and cooked it for 10 minutes. (Mind you, the microwave is in the middle of the living room). About 9 minutes into it, the microwave exploded: the door 
flew open with a loud bang, 
Me and Katie in our gypsie skirts.
