In Romania New Years is a huge holiday. We looked forward to celebrating our first New Year’s in Romania.
However, we came home on Friday the 29th from Germany sick with a little cold. We decided we were going to stay home and recover rather than spent the night in the center of town until the weee hours of the morning. Disappointing!
After a week vacation, we needed groceries and so we had a little adventure at the shopping market. Saturday morning on January 30th was like black Friday after Thanksgiving. The whole parking lot was full of cars and all the shopping carts were gone. That has never happened in seven months since we moved here. The store was wall to wall people and shopping carts, getting ready for New Years Eve and preparing for everything to be closed on New Years Day. Exhausting!
That evening we watched the raising of the EU flag on TV which initiated Romania’s entrance into the European economy. Even though we stayed home with the sniffles, we had the fireworks brought to us by light shows all over the sky, and one at the end of the street in the nearby field. It was a trill to have 4th of July in 30 degree temperatures.
Ok – Getting Better!
New Years day there were no cars on the road. It reminded me of Christmas morning in the states. When preparing to go spend the evening with friends we called one after another taxi companies to hear, “nu masina.” – meaning no taxi, sorry tough luck.
Ok, no problem we started walking and eventually found a cab about 8 blocks away.
That night we ate dinner at played take two (a scrabble game), Yatzee, and Uno. Fun!
To top the New Year off, I was able to watch the second half of Nebraska against Auburn using Fox Sports Online. Yea, yea, Nebraska lost. Bummer!!
But, I will be able to download and watch the bowl games on our new Christmas ipod. Getting Better!!!
Lastly, I found out, Oklahoma lost to Boise State. Priceless!!!!!
However, we came home on Friday the 29th from Germany sick with a little cold. We decided we were going to stay home and recover rather than spent the night in the center of town until the weee hours of the morning. Disappointing!
After a week vacation, we needed groceries and so we had a little adventure at the shopping market. Saturday morning on January 30th was like black Friday after Thanksgiving. The whole parking lot was full of cars and all the shopping carts were gone. That has never happened in seven months since we moved here. The store was wall to wall people and shopping carts, getting ready for New Years Eve and preparing for everything to be closed on New Years Day. Exhausting!
That evening we watched the raising of the EU flag on TV which initiated Romania’s entrance into the European economy. Even though we stayed home with the sniffles, we had the fireworks brought to us by light shows all over the sky, and one at the end of the street in the nearby field. It was a trill to have 4th of July in 30 degree temperatures.
Ok – Getting Better!
New Years day there were no cars on the road. It reminded me of Christmas morning in the states. When preparing to go spend the evening with friends we called one after another taxi companies to hear, “nu masina.” – meaning no taxi, sorry tough luck.
Ok, no problem we started walking and eventually found a cab about 8 blocks away.
That night we ate dinner at played take two (a scrabble game), Yatzee, and Uno. Fun!
To top the New Year off, I was able to watch the second half of Nebraska against Auburn using Fox Sports Online. Yea, yea, Nebraska lost. Bummer!!
But, I will be able to download and watch the bowl games on our new Christmas ipod. Getting Better!!!
Lastly, I found out, Oklahoma lost to Boise State. Priceless!!!!!
1 comment:
This is a great blog site Steve. You guys are doing great work. Glad you had a nice holiday. The Boise State game was indeed priceless! The little guys played their hearts out and the whole country was stunned. If you can ever watch that game on line it would be worth it! It was a true blue David and Goliath story. Jamie
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