No Internet & Shattered Shower Door

Not only did we return from Prague last Friday with no internet (this blog post is from using our neighbor’s internet—with their permission :-)), but we came home to a bathroom full of glass from where our shower door had shattered everywhere.    The doors were actually not working great when we moved in to the house, but they have gotten worse since then.  Last year Gary found out from the company that they didn’t make the shower or the doors anymore, but he was able to get some new wheels to replace the old ones in hopes that it would help.  It did help temporarily; however, evidently not for good.  So, now we already know that we can’t replace the door, which means we will have to buy a new shower.  We’ve not had success so far with finding a person who can do this.  We’ve been told that it’s not just a matter of going to the hardware store and picking out a shower (nothing is ever that simple over here).  We’ve also been told by several Hungarians that it is expensive.  Even the garbage man told Gary that it would be expensive (after he took the metal rod out to them to see if they would take it—they don’t take everything—and had to explain what it was and told them what happened).  We’ve waited this week just trying to find a person who knows how to do this, but that hasn’t happened so far.  This will probably be at a halt since Gary is leaving to go teach again.  My guess is that we MAY have a shower in and hooked up in a month if things go smoothly and quickly.  We’ll see how close I am with my guess. :-)  We’re hoping the internet will be working sometime this next week.  I won’t even go into all of the stuff with that other than it’s just part of the experience of living overseas.