Sunday, September 22nd, 2013
We woke up in Klato and Elena made us omelets + liquor for breakfast, toured a neighbor’s garden and had mushroom soup (made by Michael’s mother, Hana). 
Every time we left a relative’s house, we got presents- usually it included alcohol! (See below: my bell + apron!)
On our way out of town, we stopped in Nedanovce (a tiny town a few miles away from Klato) to plan a visit for the following week with another set of relatives.
(Zdenka & Marie: The sisters are 80 & 85 year old cousins of his mother!) It was a pretty old-timey way to set up appointments. They sure were surprised to see us!
Hana’s summer cottage is in Neda Nofsa and she took us over to the cemetery to visit dead relatives.
We headed back to our Slovak ‘home base’- NITRA- It’s a mid-sized college town where dad is friends with a Lutheran priest called Pastor Ivan. We settled in at the Penzion Vila Aria and made plans to drive across the country the next day. Luckily, in Slovakia it will only take us 4-5 hours. 🙂
September 23
In the morning, a tiny, hummingbird of a woman, Anka, made us omelets for breakfast and forced me to take a pile of salami for the road. She didn’t speak any English, but she was very concerned that I might go hungry. This often happened to me in Slovakia… I guess I just have that look about me. ; )
Before we begin our cross-country trip we pop over set up a visit with “Young Jan” who also lives in Nitra. Dad knew where Jan lived, so we stopped over- but no one was home. We called Jan’s cell phone and he answered but the connection was bad… until he stepped out onto the front porch! HEY!!!!
After setting up a visit for the 30th, we start our journey to Poprad, at the foothills of the Tatra Mountains.
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