just for the record, if Angela and I would have been on this season, we would have won - or at least won the leg of the race that they aired on Sunday. I think I got a little tear in my eye when they were in Bucharest buying train tickets in Gara de Nord. I may have yelled at the TV when one of the contestants complained that she didn't want to spend the night in the train station..."there's a hotel just down the street that rents rooms by the hour!".
I know Ang is probably the only one that can appreciate this post, but it just brought back a lot of memories...seeing the statue of Stefan Cel Mare and watching them on the train ride to Brasov...oh how we rode those trains so many times...good times...with "our" elders & a real life shephard. I even had the sudden urge to ask "avets snickers?" yell "Apa calda varog!" & then say "Mult'umesc foarte mult!"(if you're wondering, and I'm sure you are, we lived in Iasi, which is in the region of Moldova, but we traveled to quite a few places in the eastern part of Romania - from Suceava where the painted monasteries are, down to Constanta on the Black Sea.)
HA! that's awesome. They totally should have stayed at Hotel Bucegi!!! That place was such a hole. I would have rather slept in the train station!!! Avets apa plata? I hated brushing my teeth with bubbles.
ReplyDeleteAhhh...Experiences that will stay with you forever! Or at least until you are so old and have dementia that you don't remember them anymore! ha ha! You guys are amazing!
ReplyDeleteI lived for the e-mails from you two when you were in Romania---remember the LONG one about the incident in the restaurant---the dishonest waiter, the fight and the police--how could you forget? Most of all the babies in the orphanages and all the love you gave them; you each had your very special baby that you loved so much. How about sneaking to give the babies diaper changes and holding them. Precious memories.
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