Hopelessly lost in Austria

We finally got to go to Austria. President Baughman asked Steve on Tuesday at the zone conference meeting if we could pick up Elder Weidmann at the Vienna Airport and take him to our district (stake) conference in Szombathely. The plane was due to arrive at 11:55. We left Sopron 10:30 as everyone said that Vienna was just a half hour away.We stopped at a Shell station to get gas and to get a sticker that several told us we needed to post on our windshield if we drove in Austria. The gas station attendant said that we would not need it to just go to Vienna. We also had programmed our GPS for the airport! We were so ready to be there early and find our way to the arrival terminal.
Steve got us to a town that he had looked up on google and the GPS took us through several small towns. We came to a blockade in the road that was under construction. We finally stopped to talk to a  man that was at his front door talking to a lady and he gave Steve directions AND a map. We came to a road where we could see the control tower and the Gertrude ( our GPS) told us to turn on this very narrow road then onto a dirt road.

This is seriously the road we were driving on as planes were taking off on the other side of the fence. We were ten minutes late to get Elder and Sister Weidmann but they were very nice about it and gave us Swiss chocolate. As we got in the car and headed to Szambathely Gertrude still wanted us to go through all the small towns. Elder Weidmann turned on his Ipad and kept telling us which direction to go. He asked to see our GPS and found out that it was programmed to avoid major highways. Thus you see the dirt road! Turns out that the members we lent Gertrude to had programmed her that way so they would not have to pay for the sticker to drive  in Austria. We did go on the freeway most of the way to Szambathely. We were a little late getting the Weidmann's to their appointments to visit people but they still let us keep the chocolate. They had a friend at the conference who asked to take them back to the airport today. We wondered how much the Weidmann's offered her to do that!

This is the young single adult activity, they are waiting for spaghetti!

More young adults waiting for spaghetti!

This is Sister Szaboda, the great spaghetti sauce maker and another person testing the spaghetti while all the youth look on!

We took three sisters from the Sopron Branch to District Conference today. Rozie nini didn't want to go unless she could take Bambi so the branch president called the district president and he gave permission for Bambi to go to district conference. I don't know if they counted her for attendance. She was even more quiet than me!

It was raining on the ride home but I did try to get a shot of the lilac trees that lined the road.

This is picture is for my brother D to show him what farm equipment looks like in Hungary. This is the dealership with three different choices of what to buy.

There are field after field of this which we think is Safflower oil. Too bad that is was raining and I couldn't roll down the window or the dog might have gotten wet!

Another weekend in Hungary, we have to wonder what the next one will hold!