We started our day with a stop at the Stefan Jaeger Museum in Hatzfeld. Jaeger was the foremost Banat painter ever. He is most renowned for his paintings depicting Banat village life from the colonization to the expulsion.Next stop was the Nikolaus Lenau Museum in Lenauheim. Lenau is regarded as the foremost Banat poet. The museum displays a number of pictures, artefacts, and documents, including the one Frank found on our last trip with one of his ancestors’ names. We started to survey the cemetery, but a rain shower struck just as we were getting started and we abandoned our plan.
We moved on to Gross St. Peter. We got a few pictures of the church and finally found the cemetery. The rain had let up a bit, so we waded through the tall, wet grass and actually found quite a few Heinz gravestones of interest to Pat and Kathy. 
We went on to Triebswetter for a tour of its large cemetery, but enthusiasm was wearing thin due to the rain and weariness from the trip. From there we went back to the main road, spent most of our remaining Romanian money, and said good-bye to Sorin. I can’t say enough good things about our two guides, Sorin and Stasa. Sorin is absolutely the authority on Banat history, especially in Romania. Stasa is a superb organizer and facilitator. I would heartily recommend them both for research or guiding.We found our hotel in Budapest and met Beth Long and her relative, Tomas, for a pleasant dinner and evening of conversation.
The hotel is pretty nice and spacious with an ELEVATOR and wired INTERNET. What I said the other day about elevators applies similarly to internet. No matter what it says in the hotel advertising, you just can't be sure. Last night we were supposed to have wired internet. How can you go wrong? Well, apparently you can, as I could not connect. We have had many cases where there was supposed to be wireless internet, but frequently it only works in a few locations or not at all.
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