Sheep Guarding Llama

This is really the beginning of our home stretch, the last full, normal week in Baita.  We got some sun today, too.

Luciana did school today and was working on writing the number five.  It worked out well that she is recently turned five (since we were in Romania) and she took the cutest picture to celebrate how well she is writing them.

It was writing and homeschool around the Miller house today.  Soon there will be plenty of disruption as we begin traveling back to the United States and we spend time with family and the cousins and so we need to get things done now while we can.  Dominica has started looking into the packing, our time is running out.

This evening the girls and I made one of our final dairy runs over to the farm next door.  Some of their friends were there and we were just enough early that the cow had not been milked yet, so the girls went into the barn and watched the cow get milked first hand.  They have kind of seen this but this was the most “in your face” milking yet.  Now they can appreciate just how fresh this milk really is.

It wasn’t so rainy today and we had a nice sunset.

Only a week and a half left for us living in Romania, and even less here in Baita as we need time to get down to Bucharest, return the car, get ready for our flight back to the US and everything.

It’s Sunday and we had no plans today.  Just a family day at the house.

It is a quiet, warm and sunny Saturday here in Baita, Romania.  The house owners came by this morning and did some work in the garden.  They invited us out to help with the strawberry picking so the girls went out and set to work getting fresh produce from our own garden.  Everyone had a great time and it was a gorgeous day for it.

That made for a very fun, authentic and different morning.  What a great way to start the weekend.  They told us that we could have all the produce that we wanted and that we should come out and pick every day as there would be so much of it.

After strawberry picking Liesl baked a cake in the kitchen with Dominica.  Luciana bundled up in our bedroom and played video games on the Steam laptop all morning.

The dogs came by to visit this morning.  Got the cutest picture of Liesl with Negrut, Frunze’s dad.

After a kind of busy morning it was a nice, relaxing weekend for the family.  No travelling of any sort today.

This evening we Facetimed dad to wish him a happy birthday.  He is seventy today!  The girls are very sad that they are far away on his birthday.

This evening Dominica cut up a melon that we got from the grocery store this week.  We thought that it was going to be cantaloupe but it turned out to be a galia melon that looks like cantaloupe but tastes like honeydew.

Another day of rain in Transylvania.  It was raining when I woke up and rained on all through the day.  But it was warm enough to have the windows and door open.  I love the warm spring rains here.  The weather has been mostly awesome for me our entire time.  Exactly how I like it.  Rainy, but not so cold as to be a problem.

Today is Friday.  No news for today, it was a quiet day that had literally no life enterprise on MangoLassi or on Facebook.  We did not go anywhere, we have all of the food that we need, it rained all day and we are tired from all of the traveling and stuff that we have been doing.  Just hunkering down at the house and taking it easy.  A family and productivity day.  School and writing for everyone.

We are all very sad that our time in Transylvania is nearly over.  I am hopeful that we will rent this same house again in a year’s time.  We need to come back here.  It really does feel a lot like home already.

Hard to believe that we have only a little over two weeks left here in Romania before we need to be headed back to the States!  Today is our last planned run to the grocery store to get stocked up on all of the stuff that we will need for the remainder of our time here.  Always a sad moment.

Our morning went well.  It was raining all morning.  Liesl had a very productive day of school.  She covered a lot of stuff and it all went really well and there was basically no fighting which is a huge achievement here.

Luciana finally got Minecraft PE working on the tablets so that we can play together so I put in a little time playing that with her this morning as she has been waiting months for that to work again.

We went to the grocery store at three this afternoon and got way more groceries that we should have.  Seven hundred leu worth of them!  We had better not need any more while we are here!

We came straight home and Dominica made hot dogs for dinner.  Liesl ate over six and Luciana ate a full seven!

I watched The Ridiculous Six this evening which is, I believe, the first commissioned Netflix original movie.  It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great.  Lots of great people, what a lineup and filmed in 4K which is nice, but it was only so so.  But when you consider that it was a made for TV movie, sort of, it was pretty impressive!  It definitely looked and felt like a big budget Hollywood film.