Shotgun!

6/26/10

Hey y'all!

It's our fourth day here in Romania, and it's been awesome. We all got to the church exhausted, but our journey was yet to begin because we were heading up into the mountains of Sinai. Our breakfast wa

s very American: Pancakes & Bacon. (Daimien is telling me to add that all of the girls were the ones who finished off the bacon.) We all added

our little

twists to the pancakes with our optional choses of Peanut Butter, Syrup, Bananas and Nutella. As we were about to leave, Holly ran inside the church to leave her backpack and she heard randombanging. Turns out that Ms.Tiffany had locked herself in the bathroom, so it was Holly to the restroom rescue. (: Holly and I called our usual "Shotgun!" "Double Shotgun!" and we were off! We rode for about two hours until we stopped at the gas station named "Viva", which is surprisingly a lot better than most gas stations in the US. We filed for a line to use the bathroom, and, of course, the girls line was much longer than the guys. Solution: the girls used the boys bathroom as well. We piled back into the van and arrived at our first destination: Count Dracula's Castle. Well, one of several. It was filled with old paintings, furniture, and a wishing well filled with lei. On the way through the tour, we started to talk to some other Americans that we happened to run into. We soon found out that these strangers were Baptist missionaries who had been there several times. It was nice to know we weren't the only Americans there facing a difficult language barrier. Once the tour was over, we went down to the little gift shops and bought beaded bracelets. (I found the exact same one I got in Texas at the shop!) We then headed to the next castle in Sinai. It was much nicer inside and, apparently, they didn't want our dirty shoes to ruin their carpets, so we had to wear these funky slippers over our shoes. Of course, mine were too big and kept slipping off when I walked upstairs, which was quite embarrassing on my part. I continued the rest of the tour sliding like I was on ice skatesso that they would stay on. BAM!* I tried to make people believe that the famous missionary,Amy Charmical, was my great gram and also the Queen Amelia of Romania. I'm pretty sure they bought it.. Once the tour was over, we decided to look at the gift shops at that castle in the cold weather. (Yes, cold weather.. Sorry Texas.) Holly and I bought matching scarves that we wore around our heads in the car so we looked Arabian. As we headed to eat at the pizza place from last year, Giles' van decided to cut in front of us on the road. Thus begins our big van races. Of course, we immediately cut back in the lead and regained our champion title. But our happiness was crushed when we found out the pizza place had been closed, so we had to find an alternative. We drove out into the city and

found another pizza place that seemed pretty decent. We parked the vans and began to walk to it, when, out of no where, we saw a little romanian boy just peeing by the fence. Awkward? Yeah, just a little. We tried to pretend like we didn't notice, but it was the talk of our conversations after that. We arrived at the pizza place and all got seated. We all ordered and then Stuart told us he order bear to eat. We were all a little skeptical to try it, but we did, and it was actually extremely good. It tasted like really salty fajita meet. So, we decided to order some for ourselves. My mom asked big Alex what he was planning on doing, as far as school and seminary. He informed us that he is going to do Masters Seminary in California studying Biblical Counseling, which is exactly the college I want to go to and what I want to major in. It blows my mind how God brings two people who want the exact same thing together, even when they live almost half way across the world. As we finished off our bottles of Apa Plata (water), I accidently knocked mine over, and it flipped over. Being the easily amused

Americans that we are, we all decided to start flipping our water bottles over. On our way home, the van races began once again, bu

t Russ' and Giles' van are disqualified because they passed Alex's car, which is obviously

part of the rules, which makes us the champions. (If Giles tries to say otherwise on his blog, don't believe him. He is disqualified.) We finally made our way back to Pucioasa around 9:30 and everyone decided to head back and catch some Z's. Except for the bloggers of course. (And Daimien). I'm sitting here now with Giles, Holly, and Daimien eating popanaush(?) and drinking Coffee Frappes (which are not as good as Cappuccino Frappes). Well, that's about it. Tomorrow is church! (: See y'all in six days!

*Inside joke.

Congratulations Sorin and Tricia for your wedding today!