Visiting Blanka

Thursday, May 22, 2014

   We made plans to visit with Blanka in the afternoon. However, Blanka got a call at 1:30 PM that her finger surgery was scheduled for next week (she has been waiting for months) and that she had to go to the doctor’s office immediately to pick up paperwork to start her pre-op appointments. We went to the playground by ourselves and stayed there until Blanka got there around 3:30 PM.

   When Blanka got there, we went back to her apartment and she had some chicken ready for us. The kids were hungry and much happier once they ate. We stayed until about 7 PM and then took a bus back to babi’s. It is really neat to see how the kids are happy to come back to babi’s apartment – it is their temporary home.

   While at Blanka’s we watched the world championship hockey quarterfinals game between the USA and the Czech Republic. It seemed like a clear win for the Czech Republic until the few minutes prior to the end when the US scored 2 goals in less than 2 minutes. Steve jokes that he is possibly the only American who is watching the championship (not to mention watching the game live) but practically the whole Czech Republic  is watching the Czech team.

 

   Before we left, we got to see Denisa and her husband Pavel for a few minutes. Even Steve got to see that Pavel is not an imaginary person (due to his work schedule, we have not had a chance to see him at all).