Barbara Thompson

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Today is Alexander’s birthday and I didn’t even take his picture!! What?! We went over for dinner and to pick up the kitties. He is leaving tomorrow for the national LARP event and will be gone until Sunday, so we are babysitting. He made all the props for the event and

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 There was nothing I had to do today, so I did nothing. It was great. It was cool, but hot in the sun, so I put up the umbrella and read on the deck for hours. I started a book I believe I will finish before I go to sleep tonight.

Monday, August 25, 2025 We went back to the airport after a good night’s sleep. We walked in and immediately saw my favorite clock in the world. We watched 4 movies on the plane – Deep Cover (funny!), The Amateur (I liked it), Black Bag (slow and thinky), and Freaky Friday (classic) and then we

Sunday, August 24, 2025 Last day in Budapest. I would say this is my second (to London) favorite city I have visited.  We had nothing planned. After we checked out, we took an Uber to the Central Market. We’d seen the beautiful building and thought we could spend time looking through the shops on the

Sarurday, August 23, 2025 Today is our friend Jack’s birthday, so we found the appropriate place to celebrate him. Next year, we will have a double birthday because Erick and Lindsay’s baby arrived early. Three year old Mac had suggested he should be named Paper, so we have been calling him Paper. His parents are

Friday, August 22, 2025 Our cruise officially finished this morning. Everyone else checked out and went home or on to extension trips to Vienna or Prague. We ran into friends Toni and Eric just as they were going, so we had more hugs good-bye before breakfast. We gave our bags to the front desk and

Thursday, August 21, 2025 It has been HOT the entire trip. We have been able to stay pretty comfortable with American levels of AC on the boat and in the hotels, but outside has been icky. Today, it cooled off!! Huzzah! It said it was going to be drizzly and 73. I immediately thought, “I

Wednesday, August 20. 2025 We arrived in Budapest in the early morning. When I peeked out to see it, there was just another ship parked next to us – quite dark. We went up for our last breakfast (I asked Keith if he had gotten breakfast down – if he had the “Perfect Plate” –

Tuesday, August 19, 2025 We arrived in our final country this morning, Hungary. We played the second game of the trip – a movie/music quiz. The first 10 questions featured a movie poster with the title removed at the same time as a tune from a different movie played. I don’t know if it was

Monday, August 18, 2025 We were parked when we got to breakfast, but I noticed we were on the move shortly thereafter. The view was lovely out the window, but mostly I was eating a bagel and chatting with Keith and Mark from Kentucky. I noticed we passed a house near the shore. Quite a