I'm mostly packed for our weekend trip, and even prepared food for the road, which my husband insists on. We need to return to the Ministry of the Interior next week to try to get them to add a note in my new country ID about the name discrepancy. Kind of like a "aka Jane Anne Nováková". If that works, then hopefully we won't have to do certain things all over again. If it works (pretty please, pretty please) we may even have the public health insurance application underway by the end of the same day. If it works. If not, at least my husband will have his public health insurance application underway. One of us is better than neither.

I feel a little silly saying it's getting hot here after reading about the outrageous temps in places of the US. I'll say this, though. Our house does not have central air conditioning. There is one bedroom upstairs that has an attached unit, and there is a very strange-looking gizmo thingy that we could bring into our downstairs bedroom and shove the exhaust out the window. Historically, it never really got that hot in Czech Republic. However, now with global warming things are changing fast. Luckily the downstairs is still comparatively bearable...for now. Upstairs not.This Sunday's high in Prague will be 33 C (92 F) and yet the expected high next Thursday is only 21 C (70 F). Strange.