The landscape

Here are the pics from my adventure. Enjoy!

In this one, I was just in awe of the weight the branches of this evergreen could withstand!

The Christmas tree (aka "brad," pronounced like "broad.")

This is a picture of all of the people I was with during the holiday: Tony and Geta (good friends), Florin and Laura (the couple I stayed with), and the boy is Razvan (9 year old son of Florin and Laura), and then Andrea (12 year old daughter of Tony and Geta who are expecting a new baby this year!). Honestly, these are some of the happiest people I have ever met. They are always finding something to laugh about or something pleasant to think about. It was an incredibly happy week.

And this, well, this is Romania in the winter time.





There's always another story with which I could regale you, but for the time being, I hope you are able to enjoy the pictures and possibly begin to conjure up the nerve (or the money) to make a trip like this yourself someday.

~Grace
p.s. I'm sorry about the images being sideways, I can't figure out quite how to rotate them once I post them...