At Dulles they changed planes to a version of the 777 that had fewer seats than the original.  So there was some seat shuffling to fit everyone in.

We all arrived in Budapest well, but tired.  The skies were clear and it was a warm sunny day.  We did have one bag that didn't make the plane in Frankfurt for Michael.  It is supposed to be delivered to our hotel on Wednesday.  Kristi, Joel, and Cori were waiting for us.  They had rented 2 vans and were going to follow us to Szeged in the bus provided by the organizing committee.  Well, no bus.  So we piled into the 2 vans and off we went, following a map Kristi have bought and my memory of about 25 years ago – and we got to our motel in pretty good time with only a couple small wrong turns.  

Isty and his parents met us at the motel; his parents wished us their best and then headed home to Budapest.   We used kayaks from their Honved Club and they anda friend had delivered them to the race course earlier in the day.  We'll get our canoes from the race organizers tomorrow.  Then we had a nice dinner at a restaurant close by.

Everyone’s tired and crashed now, and in good spirits.  Tomorrow is boat set up day and working to get some fundamental technique points working together in team boats.  We’re glad to be here in Hungary and look forward to great races later in the week.