So, Back in Birlad after a week together it was the first time Brent and I slept in a different room since the day we left for Tirgoviste. We had also been no more than 30 feet away from on another the entire vacation... which in most cases would have driven me crazy, but Brent is like the calm shrugging self I never had. We had a nice little date sunday, going out to the zoo in Birlad which was incredibly sad. Animals locked in cages smaller than well, smaller than necessary that is for sure. Bears eating bread instead of berries and meat, Cats. That's right Cats.

Afterward we grabbed a brew and played some pool at the pool hall before going back to his place and making a mexican feast. Refried beans, taco meat and chips and salsa. Delicious. We hung out at his place cause of the early morning. We caught a bus to Bacau at 7 a.m. to catch a ten o'clock bus to sibiu. The ride to sibiu wasn't so much a bus as an oversize fan crammed full. We picked up a lady somewhere in the mountains who was obviously not so good at dealing with motion sickness. There she was sitting next to Brent with a little plastic baggie in her hands. I thought it was just for snacking. Then, The show started. As we were whipping around mountain curves and up and down slopes. She started losing her lunch. Brent turned around and looked at me. "I can't handle this. I'm gonna hurl." Luckily for everyone involved only the woman lost her lunch on that trip... though it was still pretty hard to listen to.

We finally showed up in Sibiu around 5 o'clock a good ten hours after we left Birlad that morning. The Hotel was amazing. the city was Amazingly beautiful. It was a great mid-evil city. Complete with city wall and a huge piata with a fountain and tons of roadside eateries and haberdasheries. The conference itself was also very informative. It was all about how to influence the behavior of your beneficiaries. Instead of just telling them how to act you have to show them and give them incentives. It was a good two days worth of information. And an incredibly three nights in a great hotel... and alot of basement bars.

We then made our way back to Piatra Neamt with Ted. Stayed there a few days and parted ways that saturday. It was a great trip that required a bit of recovery. But it is definetly a spring break to remember.