May Day and Romania

Heather and I have moved on to Romania. We are currently in the northern city of Cluj and tomorrow we go to sighisoara both of which are in Transylvania. Sighisoara is the birhtplace of Vlad the Impaler AKA Count Dracula. It is also know as one of the best preserved medival towns in Europe.

On our last day in Hungary we celebrated May Day with the locals. As far as we can tell may day is like their version labor day. They seem to make a much bigger production of it then we do in the states. The festival we went to had pony rides, food, traditional dancing and a fireworks finale. Strangely enough there were also quite a few Native American music groups playing and trying to sell CDs. It was very strange to wander around Budapest and see dark skinned American Indians dressed with mocassins leather outfits, headresses and face paint playing and chanting. I think some were even singing in Hungarian. All Heather and I can figure out is that the US Goverment secretly shipped off a bunch of native americans to Hungary durring the Indian wars.

Our train ride to Romania was a 8 hour journey that took us from the flat farmlands of Hungary into the mountains of Northern Romania. The scenery was very much like the sierra nevada foothills. The weather is colder here and we barely have enought warm clothes with us. Its quite a drastic change from 107 in Egypt to here. The boarder crossing was a breeze, except for the fact that we realized we may not have enough room left in our passports if every country we plan on going to on the next 3 weeks stamps us in and out. This is not a problem we really ever thought of before. The US passport has 2 pages in the back that are supposed to be used for "additional attatchments" so hopefully this area can be used for stamping in a pinch.

So as I said only 3 weeks left. We are having a blast, but we are both also looking forward to coming home. We are very excited about what the future has in store for us. This trip has really given us a different perspective in life and an insight to so many things in this world.