small negative, big positives

Let me get it out of the way. Yesterday sucked. Eva, our coordinator rode the bus to Prague to pick us up at the hotel by taxi, to ride the bus back to Brno with us. Fine. I get very car sick... buses, for me, are worse. But I tried to be a trooper about it, until the two hour bus trip turned into a five hour crawl down the autobahn (or whatever they call the highway here) because of wrecks involving fiery explosions and emergency vehicles and euro-sirens like in the movies. And then some psycho behind me sprayed perfume to cover up the smell of B.O. I would have rather been shot and then stuffed in the bathroom (which was so far beyond nasty...) The whole thing basically took up the whole day. We were starved and looking crazy in the end, Eva had to get home to her kids, poor thing, she is very sweet and felt bad about the whole ordeal. For her sake, I had to try my hardest not to be a total lunatic. She dropped us off at the hotel, which is quite nice and had no problems with the rate issue, and we settled for a nice dinner at the hotel restaurant.

The good news is that we finally got the right adapter for the plug so we can use the laptop (I plan on recycling this to Nadeen and Mark) so we are well connected, not that you all noticed that we were on borrowed Internet equipment before today. Also, the exchange rate continues to be in our favor, that is nice. Oh, and we went to the Clinic today, WARNING! : avert your attention if you are not interested in the medical stuff... just kidding! But all is well in that area. I am now taking two shots a day for the final few days. Fun. And we got to explore Brno today, it is not touristy like Prague, just a regular town on what seems like another planet. The first round of post cards have been sent, the second round... are waiting for your addresses, duh!

We miss our dogs, and can't seem to sleep without our cats. Two weeks to go. We miss our people too. Big Smooch!