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Hey Everybody,
sorry for the long absence but things are a bit hectic here with my inlaws. They'll be gone Monday evening and hopefully I'll have more time and energy to update this blog with pictures and stories..
briefly: my inlaws arrived, I had my birthday last Friday, so officially the 2X years are over and I had a haircut on the weekend, so my hair is a bit different now.. I was the entertainer on the weekdays, so it's been very very very tiring...
my best friend, Viki, give birth to their third baby girl, Kinga, last week.. soooo happy for them.. and also, my other best friend is pregnant with their second one, Congratulations for Gabi :D
anyway, I'll put more details hopefully soon.. and some new pics..
Bori is still an angel, sleeps through the nights with no problem, smiles and laughs sweet, and doesn't cause much trouble at all.. ideal child I have to say...

gas and asian market

Dare guess what's the gas price here?? :D:D we bought a gallon for $1.99 at Costco :D I haven't seen a gallon under 2 dollars since I have no idea .. probably it was still Carrboro ... amazing, isn't it? I've looked it up, and it's ca. 2.3 in Chapel Hill nowdays.. so it means that it's even cheaper here :D anyone up for a visit??
we went to an asian supermarket, it was huge .. huge huge .. it smelled awful though, but we got some good stuff: good pasta, meat, shrimp, sauces..
we're going to have a really busy 3 weeks: tomorrow evening my friend, Judit is coming. She'll give a talk at UoP Tuesday morning, and stay with us for 1-2 evenings. She lives in Livermore, works for the national lab there as a postdoc, we were classmates in university back at home..
then on Friday Csaba, Balint's gradstudent is coming for 4 days. He's visiting Tom's lab in Chapel Hill for 2 months, and he'll have a short visit at us, since the plane tickets were so cheap 2 weeks before thanksgiving.. 240 is not bad for an NC-CA trip :D
He's leaving on the 18th, and my inlaws are coming on the 20th, and staying for ca. 2 weeks... we won't have too much alone-time in the next month, but that's all right, we love visitors :D and we'll have Xmas for ourselves ..
oke, have to go now. I'll post some new pics soon.
meanwhile here's a movie Bori trying soooo hard :D

Halloween

So many of you asked about Halloween, so here it goes:
Reka had gym class the day before, and of course they were suppose to wear their costumes there as well.. so she did.. she was a fairy. She's in this period of hers that she loves dresses, she wants to wear pretty dress every afternoon and dance in it... and we got a costume last wear from Walmart, it seems quite durable, since there was a month when she was putting in on and off all day long.. anyway .. she had that, she dind't want any fancy or new costumes, so I was quite happy about it, and proud of Reka not increasing the US GDP :D
her teacher, Epy, was a witch ..
here are some pictures from the gym class...


Friday she didn't have daycare, we were at home, she was so excited about the evening that her dad will take her trick and treat, like all the other kids ... and when the evening came, we had dinner, and they left, she got cold feeted. they went first to Jerry, our next door neighbor. He's nice, we see him all the time, but now she wouldn't say a word and was hiding behind Balint.. so they came home, Balint got kind of mad at her being so shy.. after 5-10 minutes talking, I took her to the other neighbor, and elderly lady.. she was nice, and Reka was brave, and so eventually at the third stop she picked it up and had fun.. we walked the street, had ca. 15-20 houses, and then came home.. it was nice for me to walk with Reka, I got to know a few people on the street.. for example a man, across the street, I've seen him before, Rubint, he's a hairdresser.. so I guess I'm going to try him out soon :D
I don't have any picture from the actual Halloween night, but oh well, you can see the costume she had from the gym pics..
as of all the rest of the family.. we were fine without costumes and candy.. not our kind of holiday.. I'm glad it's over, since it's Thanksgiving soon enough, and that means pecan pie at Costco :D:D:D

weekend and first whole night sleep

We went to a volleyball game on Saturday and a basketball game on Sunday, since it was raining quite badly all weekend long.. it's nice that you can just decide to go to a game an hour before it starts, be able to buy ticket at the box office, not too expensive I have to add, and then just relax.. ok, it might not be a big university, with great teams, but it's for sure relaxing and enjoyable.. Pacific, or UoP (University of the Pacific) is orange and black.. and their mascot is a tiger as you can see :D

here are some pics from the weekend:



and I woke up Tuesday morning realizing that I wasn't up during the night :D my little girl slept through the night for the first time.. life is funny for sure: my girls can pick the date for sleeping through the nights: Reka slept through first on Easter Sunday of 2004. Now Bori picked the 2008 election eve.. at least it'll be easy to remember..

and as of the propositions: Yes on Prop 8 has won:
08 - Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry
YES: 5,235,486 52.2%
NO: 4,800,656 47.8%

and also for us another important thing is taking effect, which will allow CA to build a fast train through north-south CA.. so we can be in LA in 3 hours.. much better than flying..
1A - Safe, Reliable High-Speed Train Bond Act
YES: 4,971,000 52.3%
NO: 4,547,349 47.7%

an interesting, but also a bit frightening thing:
04 - Parent Notif. Before Terminating Minor's Pregnancy
YES: 4,630,908 47.7%
NO: 5,065,165 52.3%