My Aunt Geta with two of her cats (she's mentally ill)
Homemade broom
G-pa Alexandru pitting apricots (not for jam, but for tuica - moonshine!)
View of the house in the country (La Tara in Danesti)
G-ma Maria watering tomatoes
Well, well, well...and of course a fancy satellite dish
In the street in front of house in Danesti
G-ma resting
Nenea - my great-uncle making honey combs
One of the three triplet goats (I think the other two have been eaten???)
Taking a stroll thru my great-uncle/aunt's garden
Nina (great-aunt), Geta, and I
Grandparents' house in Danesti
Community well
Me taking a nap - this is the bed we slept on (not the hay one, but this is just as bad - Matthew couldn't move his head for days after he slept on this bed)
Nenea getting me some fresh honey
3 of 7 cats
"Kitchen" and "Dining room"
Another cat
Cats were everywhere...
Street in Danesti
Looking at some plant
Walking towards the cemetary
Cows
Still walking toward the cemtary
Cemetary
My great grandmother's gravestone
Cows near cemetary
Cemetery still
Sunset... granny and me and matthew's shadow
Goat for Gilda
House my granny wants - it's a kit house made somewhere else and just brought here and put together.
Another kit house
Nina, me, and Nenea as taken by granny
Our room in Danesti
Nina, me and Geta hanging out
Nina and Nenea
House where some guy died - note the black banner to signify this
Nina and granny walking
Garden in the back (front?) of house
Granny, me, grampy
Another one
Grampy, granny, Geta, me
Geta
Geta and I
Me making lunch, Geta listening to music on my computer
Me eating lunch
Geta and dog
Me eating "corcodus" - but I think it was actually an unripened plum: very, very sour!
Grampy
Back in Pantelimon (near Bucuresti) - this is when we just got back from Danesti
Geta opening her gifts
Geta received her favorite: jewelry
McDonald's at the mall
See, Matthew couldn't move his head for a while after sleeping in that bed!
At Starbucks in mall!
In front of mall - this time the security didn't stop me from taking pictures
Half-naked Grampy Costica (dad's dad)
His wife, Adriana
Grampy with his gift
Giving Grampy pictures
Alexandru - one of four of my cousin Robert's kids
My cousin Robert and his family
Opening gifts - girls were told to close their eyes
Girls (Andreea and Mihaela) get new backpacks filled with goodies (clothes, school supplies)
Alex gets a stuffed doggie
All kids get a new pool!
This was their old pool!
Peppers
Mihaela and her new sunglasses
Robert's million tomatoes!
Us looking at his amazing garden
Tomatoes - so, so yummy
Perfect tomatoes!
More perfect tomatoes!
Picking veggies to have for lunch
Their latest addition: Vlad
Alex LOVED sunglasses and wanted to share
Cutie pie Vlad
The Romanian flag
Street in Robert's neighborhood
Gogoserie was closed! Bummer.
Vlad and me
Showing them pictures of Alaska
Showing photos still
Alex and me
Filling up the pool - with well water which is SO cold, the kids couldn't go in it
Alex
Andreea and her mom (Sila) playing w/ frisbee
Granny and Matthew in Pantelimon
Entire family comes over the Grampy's house - Happy Grampy!
Went to mall for McDonalds and a movie (Panda Kung Fu)
Enjoying lunch
The girls - hey, my last name's popular!
Sleepy Vlad
At a park
Grandma and Geta on the day of the girls arrival - Matthew shared his Dr. Pepper!
Us at the Parliament house monstrocity
Granny resting at the hero's monument (sorry, no pictures of that)
Sonia, JL, and I squeezing into the elevator at G-pa's house in Bucuresti
On the way to Danesti again! On a bus...
Granny and Geta
Granny and kitten
Nap time
Geta and kitten
Geta, Sonia, and Judi-lynn
One of the store-houses
Like I said earlier, cats everywhere
Waiting at the bus stop
Time to leave Bucuresti - now we're off to Sinaia
Group photo at Castelul Peles!!!
Castelul Peles
Mattew and I at Peles
It was a rainy day
I tried to get the castle in the reflection of the rain drop - yeah right!
Hotel near Peles
Walking down to the city center in Sinaia
Nice garden/house in Sinaia
And thus began our love/hate relationship with "stairs"
Neat house in Sinaia
JL taking shelter form huge rain/thunder storm
Very heavy rain
Attempted to take another group photo during storm
Did it!
Tele-gondala ride to Cota 1400 (1400 meters up mtn)
Snail
View from Belvedere in Brasov
Brasov!
Walking down from the white tower
Walking around Brasov
Blurry pictures of my dad's cousin and us
Beautiful Brasov
The "B" in the Brasov sign up the mountain
View from the top of the mountain
Attempt at group photo...
Flower growing out of the rock
Men playing chess in park
Lots of men playing chess or backgammon in park
My mamaliga and branza meal (corn mush and feta and sour cream)... This is how much there was when I got it!
Matthew's mititei and cartofi meal
Drooling over my food
This is all I was able to eat! How sad.....(Had soup before)
Castelul Bran ("Dracula's Castle" - but not really)
Matthew, JL, Sonia
Group picture!
Traveling in style in the VW
Bye, bye Ionela (my cousin, she was gone at school most of our visit) and Lia (my dad's cousin)
Nice corn mush (ha, ha!), and cabbage rolls
Walking in Sighisoara
View from our Sig hotel
Our furniture in our hotel - Saxton style, so pretty
Matthew in our hotel room - such cute little beds (emphasis on little)
Even the door knob was nice
Bathroom sink
Bathtub fixtures
Stairs up to our room
Near our hotel
Crazy long tunnel to top of hill in Sig (kids had to go up this to get to school!)
Sig street
Group shot (getting sleepy...)
Street in Sig
View from a scary tower in Sibiu
Cool church roof
View from tower
Room up in tower
Scary, scary stairs to get up in the tower!
My lunch! Soup bowl.
Matthew feasting on Romanian fatty meat and corn mush
Post-soup bliss
Our deluxe room in Sibiu - our bed was on the other side of the wall
Our afternoon snack!
Sibiu sights
Sibiu building
People in Sibiu
Matthew and I resting in Sibiu
Chatting w/ granny while in Sibiu
Sibiu at dusk
Wish this was clear - needed a tripod
Near the Sibiu city wall - old style crafts
From a tower up on the wall
Inside tower
Walking up above the wall
House in Sibiu
Sonia waiting for us to get down
Climbing down the tower
Finally, the tower
Roma
Sibiu still..
Sibiu street
REUNION WITH SHEEPIE!!!!
Happy Sheepie!
My lovely sheep
Oh, I missed you!
One more picture...oh, that's the scary tower we climbed up with the scary stairs
Silly Matthew eating an entire HOT pepper AFTER eating his soup
Tiramisu and sheepie
Pretty wall decoration at the cafe
Wall deco at cafe
We're in Cluj, at Jilda's aunt's house
Jilda!
Statue in Cluj
Jilda and I in her hometown Cluj
