Sad day...our last day here in Slovakia. We bid the Stenachs farewell this morning as they departed a day early for Vienna and the return trip to Minneapolis.

We all headed our separate ways to finish up last minute trips to the villages ańd shopping. Viktor Krushko came from Presov to help us translate. Vladyka met with his relative in Visny Mirosov one last time and spent a while in the cemetery there hoping to find some relatives-

We then hooked up with Skip and Emily and headed to Stebnik where I photographed relatives headstones and reacquainted with my 84 year old cousin, Anna Pidany. We then headed to Chmelova to pick up Milka Denis who accompanied us to Regatovka to see if we could find some of Emilys Leba relatives. While none are living there anymore, we did find a statue with their name on it and we suspect that it attested to the fact that they were a founder of the church there.

We happened to run into Joe Jurista while we were there and he invited us in for a shot of his homemade Medovica...honey brandy. We all laughed at his tribute to the Beatles...a take off of the statue in Bardejov...only his was made with fish heads.

We shared our last dinner at the Hotel Bardejov and had wonderful food there. We all then met in the square at our usual hangout for one last drink on the town.

Tomorrow we take off across the country for Vienna before departing back for the states. As I had no internet connection there, this will most likely be the last post. I hope to post some photos once I return to the states.

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