Wednesday, September 11, 2019

New School Year

Romania starts school the middle of September!  These three started school on Monday....
Ruthie is in 3rd grade and Karla and Daria are in pre-school!!  Yeah for the beginning of school!!  All three had a great first day!!
Karla - Pre-School - Age: 4 1/2
Ruthie - 3rd Grade - Age: 8, Almost 9 

Daria - Pre-School - Age: 4

The rest of August...

The rest of August, I spent resting and recuperating and catching up!  I worked on photo books...alot!    We had a few swim parties with transition kids and we celebrated Daria's 4th birthday!

 Happy Birthday, Daria!!  All she really wanted was a pink, heart cake!!  



My Family Came To Visit!!

I was so excited to end summer camp because my sister, her husband and my niece and nephew were coming to visit!  They arrived on our very last day of camp, so, sadly they did not get to experience that.  But, we did so many other unbelievably wonderful things!  


For the first part of their time here, I took them to the mountains!  I had been wanting to hike up to this cross in a town called Busteni.  Well, hike we did!  I'm done hiking for a couple of years now!  It was a long hike, but, we all made it!!





The next day, we headed to Bran and Rasnov!




We returned to Bucharest and did many things...
These four became fast friend....


 We watched the light show in the center of Bucharest...





We went to the Animal Farm and Therme Spa...





We had sleepovers....

We visited two orphanages...Voluntari and Casa Lidia....


We cooked together.  Lucy makes great bacon and pizza...


On the last day, we visited the city center and Bella's Starbuck's...


Usually, when I leave the US, I cry.  I know....ridiculous, really.  But, I'm always sad to leave my precious nieces and nephews.  Well, the night before they were leaving, Micah came to me, crying, and told me he didn't want to leave!!  Oh.  My. Heart!!  I'll be home for a visit real soon buddy!