Mom, but not many of our other relatives. Everyone is busy. Some of our other friends found time to fit us in, and I was able to wrap up some more old law cases with the help of my friend, Janice. But there just wasn't enough time to see everyone. When the three weeks were over, we were exhausted and ready to return to our quiet life in the Czech Republic. So we came back to CZ and two days later left for Croatia. The trip had two purposes. The first was to see the beautiful country and the second was to see if we could find the other side of my family. My grandmother, who was a Czech, was born in Croatia. We did find the remaining cousin and a very wild story of robbers, murders, bigamist and thieves. I am trying to write it up now,.. it would make a great soap opera! I'll be happy to share it with you when I get it done! This is a picture of a very distant cousin, Frank Lipsansky and my only remaining second cousin, Alicia. 
We had a great time, lots of good food and drink.
From there we went on to explore Croatia. Zagreb, the capital was wonderful,..filled with great museums. We then went to the far western tip of the country, an area called Istria. It was beautiful and filled with medieval towns and roman ruins. Of course no trip to Croatia would be complete without a trip to the sea. This is the view from our room. Ken went swimming a lot and I watched. 
Two weeks in Croatia and we only scratched the surface of this very interesting and unique county.Then it was back to the Czech Repubic and two days later I left for a week to teach and an intensive English Language course for the faculty and staff at PalaskyUniversity,..the school where I will teach in the fall. It was a lot of fun and hopefully, being the only native speaker there, I added something to the education.. the morning after the welcoming party, I taught them all the words associated with a hangover! Now we are home again and I am working on proof reading a Veterinary Lab manual. The first edition they emailed to me had all the gory pictures,..thank goodness the next copy was just text! I should finish it up this week and then we are off to Vienna to pick up my work visa. Mostly I am getting tired just thinking of all of this!! To those of you we saw when we were in the states,..it was great to see you. To those that we didn't make contact with,...next time,...probably March. For now, stay in touch,...your emails, letters and calls help to lessen the void of separation.
