Sunday, April 7
Hello everyone,

We are having a fine time! On Saturday, we visited the wine country around Csurgo. Tiny, privately owned fields side by side. And I do mean tiny - like 40X150 feet. Many of them had a small building on site, which was the cellar - though a lot of them were no longer vineyards, but growing Christmas trees instead. Apparently there's no money in wine, they make enough to keep their personal use taken care of, but not much extra. But 80% of the Hungarian Christmas trees come from the Csurgo area.

At the end of our walk through the vineyards, we were treated to a fabulous wine-tasting and Goulash BBQ. Amazingly great! A huge outdoor cooking vessel, filled with pork and vegetables, and hand-pinched noodles, kind of like gnocchi or spaetzle. We needed to sing a couple of hours later, so when we got back to town, we poured vats of coffee down the gullet to combat the effects of wine in the afternoon!

The concert was a big hit, filling the church with a lot of teens from the boarding school across the street. A row of them got up to do "the wave" during a couple songs. Lots of fun.

Sunday morning we went to the church service in Kaposvar. This was a little different - only the minister knew we were coming, and I think some of the congregation disapproved of this Rock and Roll in church! But we also had a lot of smiling faces, so I just looked at them, and ignored the others. The minister thanked us, saying, "you have your way of celebrating God, and we have ours". Oh well.

For the rest of the week, we're staying in Balatonfüred, in an old villa a couple blocks from the lake. Tough life, eh?!

Love to you all, Jim