Arriving Sopron...

It's 6:30 AM here in Sopron Hungary, whic means it's 11:30 PM yesterday back home. Had a little trouble sleeping through the night, but I feel well rested now. Beth and Molly are still sacked out.

I suppose yesterday's travel could have been rather exciting, had we even known that there was anything going on. We didn't find out about all the activity at Heathrow until we met our party in Vienna.

The drive to Sopron was a wild ride. Our Hungarian driver, who spoke no English, but was able to somewhat communicate with our fellow missionary from Germany seemed to be a hurry after having to wait for us due to our hour-and-a-half delay leaving Paris (which may have been due to the crisis in the UK).

We didn't see much of Sopron as we drove in , but what we saw was intriguing. A few modern buildings, including several modern gas station/convenience stores were mixed in with very old residences and commercial buildings. We also drove past some apartment blocks with distictive Soviet architechture.

The Hotel Fagus, where we ar staying is very new and quite comfortable. "How can a bunch of missionaries afford to stay in such a place?" you ask. It's simply a matter of GEM finding a hotel during the off-season and getting a really good deal for hosting it's Annual Conference.

It was good to reconnect with some friends at dinner last evening. Looking forward to doing more of that through the week as well as developing new friendships.

Today, we set up the sound and technical systems and hopefully have a chance to explore a bit.