Having survived two flights and a long bus trip, we currently find ourselves back in our apartment in Klaipeda, Lithuania. It is certainly good to be home. Although our luggage did not make the transfer in Amsterdam, the good folks at KLM delivered it to our door earlier today, even though we live in a different country than our arrival airport. Now that is service!

We will be here until Saturday. I have a faculty retreat on Thursday and Friday that will take up the better part of both days. We then leave for Austria to visit Stephanie’s aunt and uncle in Vienna. I will leave Stephanie and the kids in Vienna on Sunday to take a train to Budapest, Hungary, where I will be attending the European Society of Biblical Studies annual conference. Stephanie and the kids will join me on Wednesday for two days of sight seeing. We will return to Lithuania on the 16th.