Yesterday the Pierce family was fortunate to host a lunch for Dario Bardic and Karel Hus, two visitors from Holland.  Dario is a (distant) cousin of Mira’s, and both were in California for a wedding of a friend of Karel’s in Los Angeles and a tourist visit to San Francisco.  John and Meredith came to lunch and John reminisced about his trip to Croatia in 1966.  John even broke out some Croatian.  Meredith and Robert tried to keep up conversation about the old country, but mostly drank wine and talked with Dario and Karel about their visit to the new world, recent sidewalk protests in the Castro, and life in Amsterdam.  We hope to see Dario and Karel again,  in California, Holland, and/or Croatia!