Travelling

Business trip.

Albert's award trip.

Visiting family.

Weekend in beautiful Monterey Bay, Mountain View and San Francisco. In SF on 7/24 had breakfast at Union Square in Emporio Rulli, Lakspur.

Dinner on 6/8 at Baleen, Miami (I got monkey rub to go, I liked it so much) and at Vix, Victor Hotel with Pauline and Tom on 6/9.

Anaheim for business conference & Irvine, Burbank to visit family.

Visited Jersey, Gurnsey, London, Southport and Manchester.

Visiting Phillip to see him graduate Warrant Officer School (WOC)

Long weekend full of surprises.

Fast cars.

Albert went on a business trip and me and my mom came along. We walked around all the hotels, love the most fountains at Bellagio. Food was great too - so much choice.

Pete and Sarah never saw snow in their lives. To be sure we see snow and experience snow, to play in and with, we went to Vermont along with their parents.

Pete, Eve, Sarah and Pete came to New York City for the first time. Pauline and Tom joined us, since they were on their way home from Germany and NYC happened to be their stopover.

We visited Daytona and Orlando to celebrate Phil's bachelor degree in aeronautics from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.

Vacationing with Albert's family - including his aunt Teresa with husband Neil from England, Pete & Eve with kids, Kev & Angela with kids and Pauline with Tom.

Lovely time with my aunt Danda, cousins Adriana and Dudo with his family.

Cruise left from Ft. Lauderdale (Florida), went to Half Moon Key (Bahamas), Ocho Rios (Jamaica), Georgetown (Grand Cayman) and Cozumel (Mexico).

Nice weather, good snow conditions, great food. What more would you want.

Work conference with 15,000 IBMers in Las Vegas at once.

Christmas with Albert's family.

Pauline's birthday. Photos

Long weekend getaway.

Visiting Phil. This time I got a clearance to go see Spirit of Missouri - B2 bomber.

Bali, Singapore, Thailand - see itinerary and more.

Spent Christmas with Albert's family.

Long weekend.

Long weekend.

Tom's 60th birthday.

Visiting Phil.

Took Pauline and Tom to: Bratislava, Prague, High Tatras, Spisske podhradie, Vysny Kubin and back to Bratislava - this all in 6 days. Albert and I stayed in Bratislava for Christmas.

Weekend with Phillip, Pauline and Tom.

Trip to see my family - especially the new addition - my nephew Adamko.

Summer vacation with Mano & Ingus.

Business trip - Interwoven boot camp.

Phillip's air force boot camp graduation. Lackland is close to San Antonio, TX. Hello Alamo!

Albert's grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary.

Visiting my family.

Our cruise route was reversed thanks to Chantal (hurricane): Ft. Lauderdale - Half Moon Key, Bahamas - Ocho Rios, Jamaica - George Town, Cayman Islands - Cozumel, Mexico - Ft. Lauderdale. It rained once on the ship at sea, drizzled once in Mexico, other than that, weather was nice. The food was out of this world and at any time you might find some space in you to deposit some food there, you could.

A short fling to Florida - did some kayaking in mangroves (awesome!), had a facial (mud on the face), went out to the ocean on a boat (very choppy seas - 6ft)

Ta - ta - tada, ta - ta - tada... my brother's wedding. Glitz of Vegas and the desert. Lost a lot of money. :-)

Although I was fighting with sore throat while we were there, I went skiing every day. The mountain was irresistible, covered with snow like a bath i scovered with bubbles. For the first time in my life, I've got to ski in really thick virgin powder. We stayed at ski-in, ski-out place on the Snowmass mountain.

We got to do many activities I have never done before. We took a boat out to the ocean and went snorkeling to see submerged statue of Jesus Christ. The water was warm, I could not believe it was December! On our last day, we took a trip to Everglades to see tamed as well as wild aligators.

We decided to go skiing finally. The place: Lake Placid in upstate NY. We were supposed to be skiing on the Whiteface Mountain, but the weather was not cooperating. There was no snow, but we still had a great time.

Slovakia is changing. I wish I could see more changes towards higher quality of life... Oh well. It was a very good trip for me, because I finished there my studies at FM UK, and became "Magistra" in the field of Management.

There was 9 of us to go to Florida this summer. They were my parents, brother Maros with girlfriend Inga, our friends George & Mirka, friend Walter and Albert with me. Everybody was very happy and looking forward to learn how to dive. Weather was beautiful (only several storms and tornado warnings). We didn't come up with any web site from this trip, but we have tons of pictures.

Albert's best friend from high school was getting married. It was very nicely planned wedding. It was right in the middle of Disney, in beautiful wedding complex. Mickey and Minnie were there as well! The bride and groom had set up a web page with a lot of pictures (Note: April 2005: site not working anymore).

Here I am again! My second arrival to US was unpatiently expected. When US Immigration department finally approved my papers (on friday 4/24/98) everything else was arranged within next week. I arrived the next friday (5/1/98). There was Jimmy's strech limo waiting for me and of course Albert, Maros a Ingus. We went straight to the Punta Dura restaurant, which is very good italian restaurant almost right nextdoors to our Astoria apartment. We spent very nice evening. I was celebrating also the night after and then I was sick for three weeks...

Being in England was one of the nicest expeiences in my life. We met with Albert in London, where we spent a week enjoying nightlife and historical monuments of London. During weekend we were in Albert's birthplace - Island of Jersey. I fell in love with Jersey. I would really like to live there one day. We spent the next week with Albert's aunt Teresa and her husband Neil in St. Helens near Liverpool. We went to look at Liverpool, Chester and Southport.

We had very nice time in Kosice, except for the hotel. I wanted to show Albert how normal hotel in Slovakia looks like. We stayed at hotel Kohal and I think Albert will not forget this hotel very soon. He was shocked by the fact that we had to share bathroom and toilet with people nextdoors (who we didn't know at all).

Can you imagine little Skoda Felicia struggeling in a heavy snow storm going to Tatranska Lesna? We saw ourselves stucked in the middle of the road slowly freezing... We didn't think we'll make it all the way to the place we were stayng in. But we did :-D. The second day we went to the "Coldwater Waterfalls". The weather was beautiful, view was amazing, we were very happy. However, we were less happy when we found out that we left our car lights on in the morning and our battery is dead. We found nice downhill road where we hoped it will "jump on", but when we went down that road we found out that it has dead end and if we want to go anywhere we have to climb up this icy steep road we just came down.

We rented a car (Skoda Felicia) for our trip around Slovakia. We were quite happy with it. Why am I mentioning it? It was funny going uphill and trying to "cheer up" the car: C'mon Skoda, you can do it! You can do it!
We stayed with my aunt and uncle in Vysny Kubin. I always admire the beauty of Orava. We were driving around those little villages and Albert experienced something for the first time in his life (actually, me as well). We were stopped on the road by the cow who was staring into our front window. It looked quite hungry.

It was a shock to see our refrigerator even after being in US only for 3 months. I realized a lot of differences that I wass not aware of before. I realized that Slovakia is not a very big country and that it really is a unique piece of land in the middle of all those other states, nationalities etc.

When I arrived to Phily (after being in train for 9 hours) there was a lot of smoke on the tracks. It ooked really scary - like the station is on the fire. I don't know what was it until now. When I walked up the stairs I saw this big bouquet of red roses and somebody smiling from behind them (Albert).

I stayed with very nice people in Pittsburgh. Ben and Patricia Tuchi.They are both university teachers. They arranged for me very nice trip around Pittsburgh with Palo Komornik and one boy who has slovak roots and lives now in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is nowadays much nicer than it used to be. I could not believe my eyes when I saw pictures of Pittsburgh from 40 - 50 years ago. All the buildings were black and you couldn't see daylight at noon because of pollution. Nowadays almost all (maybe completely all) steel companies are shut down and town has to seek other opportunities how to attract people to come to live there.

After two days in train it was very nice to stand on non-moving soil of Missouri. I stayed there with my good friends Chrissie and Bennett. Again it was completely different experience. After Los Angeles and New York I explored small town in the middle of United States.