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Rain

More rain today. We had quite the busy weekend. On Saturday we went to this floating parade sort of a thing. Not really sure how to describe it, really. They had a bunch of home made boats with different themes, and then they launched them on the river and had to float around collecting money and trying to sink each other. This sounds intriguing, but the real deal was somewhat less than exciting, due in large part to the fact that the thing was supposed to start at 10:00, and started at noon, instead. Too bad we showed up at […]

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Berry Picking

Spent the day today picking berries in the garden for canning later on. It’s hot today, and there’s nowhere for me to escape to to cool off. In America, if it gets too bad, I can always take a ride in the car or go to Walmart or something. The land of no AC isn’t always very spiffy. DKC and I watched Spiderman 3 last night. One star out of four. The movie’s a classic example of lots of things going right, but everything playing wrong together so that it all falls apart. Really, if it weren’t for the SFX

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Picture Post

Been a few days since I posted some pics, and they’re building up on the computer, so it’s time to put some more up. Today we took a trip into Trencin to go shopping. I’m not a big shopper at home, and being in Europe doesn’t necessarily improve upon the experience. There’s just too much standing around involved, although clothes shopping is the worst, and there was none of that today, thank goodness. I do most of my gift shopping online, where I can poke around to find opinions about products and reviews. It’s hard for me to go into

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Denist Success

It looks like all is well in the land of dentistville. DKC went today and got a root canal and filling, and that should finish her off. She’s supposed to check in next week one last time, just to make sure everything is in order, but it looks good. (Knock on wood) So with this third tooth finished, it ended up costing $500 vs $4500. Because I know you all care about my budget. The total price of this trip, including Dublin and the dentist and passports and all that other fun stuff, should be around $4500. Maybe a tad

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Castle BBQ

The big event of today was heading up to Trencin castle to have a barbeque and get dressed up in Medieval outfits and take some fun pictures. The archery practice was just gravy. For those of you who don’t know, my wife’s brother is the night watchman at Trencin castle. This means that we get super exclusive privleges normal people don’t get, like cookouts at the castle after hours. Talk about cool. (Although I almost had the cops called on me today when another person at the castle didn’t know who I was and started yelling at me in Slovak.

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