I can still recall our last summer...of international traveling

 Reeewind! Since I have so much to catch up on, and since we can’t travel much this year, I’m reminiscing to my last international trip before I got pregnant last summer. 

Victor got invited by his old boss in Oki to help out with a military exercise in Romania since his boss knew that he knew tech, and spoke Romanian. His boss actually said me and the kids could come stay the whole time during the exercise, but staying in a hotel for a month with them while Victor was working a lot didn’t sound very appealing. So I can out at the end of the exercise and met him in Romania for a couple days. 

It was great meeting up with him after he had been gone for over a month...and in our old stomping grounds. I love coming back to Romania. We stayed in Bucharest mostly, and I was impressed with all the revitalizing of downtown they’ve done. Lots of fun and artsy areas that weren’t there when I lived there. 

We made sure to visit Sora Gorzo, I got to see more people at church, and another person was visiting Bucharest the same time as us: the pope! He drove right past our hotel in his Dacia Pope mobile and it was fun to see him, and more fun to see the excitement the Eastern Orthodox Romanians has to see the Catholic pope? Haha,  but still a cool experience.

We only left the city once—a drive up to Curtea de Argeş and up into the mountains to show Victors coworkers the real Dracula’s fortress. It’s a cool hike, but sadly when we got there, the hike was closed because of bear sightings no! And then sure enough, we saw these guys on the road:

So we took the guys to the famous monestery in Curtea de Argeş. It’s like the Westminster Abbey for Romania. Lots of kings and queens buried there. 

We also had lunch up by this beautiful lake. The guys took a boat ride across to the dam...and I took a nap in the van because I was just so dang jet lagged even after a few days in country. It was crazy. Anyway! A great time in Romania. Excited for the next part of our trip!