Bucovina

It's always a pleasure for us to visit our dear friends Anca and Stefan and from one year on our godson David. They live in Suceava in Bucovina, north-east of Romania. Great place, great peoples, great food. We planned a visit as David, the little one, celebrated his first birthday, and it's a real tradition that the godparents take part in this celebration and put the little one to choose from different objects: pen, book, money, medicine, etc. in order to see what is he going to become when grown-up! Interesting and funny at the same time. For David the book, the money and the mouse seemed to be the most interesting and then the medicine. I'm proud of him...hopefully he''ll make money out of books :).
Even the weather was the coldest ever...it almost snowed, we had great time. David it's growing up fast and becoming more and more curious. He's already walking on his own feet!
He's crazy about Peter as you'll see from the photos and not so crazy about me...I'm not fun for him:(.
That weekend we visited Humorului Monastery and it's tower and some nice B&B's from the region. Actually tourism it's the main occupation on these parts as a Monastery is every street corner and history and Stephen the Great is everywhere. You can see for yourselves how time seems to have stopped!









No inspiration for me tonight....I'm not very good with words tonight;) so let the pics speak:

Escape

Was the last summer day...although in September, when we had 30 degrees Celsius and after which a drop to 6-8 degrees followed. Anyway I think we have to get used to having two seasons per year instead of four seasons. So the last day of summer 2008 we spent it in nature, having a "relaxation" and realizing that we're getting tired too soon after climbing a hill. Anyway Cheile Turzii a natural splendor near Cluj-Napoca welcomed us with it well-known fresh air, green trees and wild cliffs.
And when you think that we used to "conquer" the 2000 cliffs of Retezat one day and now we can barely get our feet up to the cross of Cheile Turzii. You can enjoy the full trip on my photo album. There you can see our trip car - a Dacia 4x4 and in the first picture the desperate try of our authorities to have a highway in Transylvania.









Anyway it was quite a hot day on the mountain!

A well deserved holiday

After ages of working at the office and then at home we took a Friday off and set to conquer Hajduszoboszlo, a nice Hungarian resort very close to the border with Romania. The resort is something more like a seaside as it has water pools for all kinds of taste, gender, age or preferences. It has also hot water pools with healing effect too. It proved to be very inspired as outside were no more than 20 degrees Celsius on Sunday.
We enjoyed the wave water pool (artificial waves of course - but very challenging. we had some days of relaxation as we had never had for months. It was not our first time there....we've been there 2 years ago and enjoyed even more. Here are some pics (we didn't take too many) where you can see the adventurers we took with us ;)



No need for introduction for this fellow:)



Here is from right to left: Mom, Mother-in-law and Father-in-law:



Peter and his sister, Erika:



The lake for boat navigation, full of big fishes, ready to be eaten :)



Here is our "black rat"...very confortable indeed:



And here is my father too...very hard to settle him down:



No need to say how much we all enjoyed everything...these guys can be very funny and party people!

Oh man! How I liked bathing and thinking only about what should I eat next? Chocolate or Apples?