We took this summer not so serious and it was spent without any special planning. We did not plan any foreign trip just like last year. We saw all our friends on FB checking in from different countries, and different parts of the world. Everybody wanted to go abroad this summer to compensate the missing holiday from 2020. And as a result, the fourth wave of the virus is knocking. But at the same time, we read about the first countries that cancelled all covid measurements regarding differences between vaccinated an non-vaccinated, mask wearing and all restrictions.
I slowly started to go back to work. Till now only on those days when my colleague is on holiday. It did not seem that more than 3 years passed since my last workday at DEXON. Some things changed (most of the employees keep on home officing), some didn't. The office is quite empty but I don't feel like working from home after staying home for 3 years. I felt endless energy to start/continue my work with endless efforts and as a result, I was quite tired by the end of the first week. It was good to return, I got warm reception from my colleagues and our clients as well. And the best thing is that I'm only a few days away to enjoy my full salary!
We made a Balaton round tour within a weekend on 4 wheels, accomodated in tent in a camping with good location, near a fun fair and circus, the beach and lot of sgopping facilities. Then we continue tenting in our garden and often slept outside with Nolen. We also used the tent when my godchildren or Dominik's classmates came to us.
We celebrated some round anniversary within our extended but close family: my brother-in-law turned 40, my mother's eldest brother's (Jóska) 70th birthday, my cousin's younger son's (Levente) 18th birthday.
Other event is the Mátra tour organized by Decathlon (sport equipment store). This tour is about full-day hiking on different distances, while collecting stamps at the check points. Many years ago we started when Dominik was very young. This kind of organized hiking gave me secure then to hike without any fear with a child alone in the forest. But this year, I was thinking that this is not the best way of hiking when the forest is full of other hikers. No calm, no silence, no animals. So the reason why I chose this way of hiking years ago, obsolated.
This year the children's birthdays were Mexican themed. So we made a taco-party with tremendous number of (250+) taco shells and other Mexican food and drink like empanadas, guacamole, salsa, then sweet corn, chocolate fountain, tequila (not for the kids). As a decoration, there was a huge inflatable cactus, and some other inflatable furniture as an armchair, a sofa, a bouncy castle and of course authentic Mexican melodies sounded.
We made a day off full of thumbs up programs with long-seen friends and also spent a gorgeous day on our Foundation Day in downtown by bike ended with great fireworks that attracts many people to the banks of the River Danube.
