Sibiu Days

We've just arrived in Sibiu and are now hanging out in our lodgings, the Chess Hostel. We're taking a bit of time to check Internet, because we're not paying per session.

Where did I leave off... On Sunday we washed pottery, got a lot of bags done so they could be looked over and categorized by Eric. Then later that day we went for a drive with Eric and Arina (a girl we met last year and is visiting for a few days) to see monster rock formations in a nearby town. There was a small festival occurring at that time too, so we stayed for a couple of hours to watch the traditional groups dance and sing. And we climbed one of the rock formations, which was kind of neat. We also found out about a cave and went into that partway - it was very cold but nifty.

Monday was a regular excavation day, except without the team and half the Romanian workers had stopped coming as well. It went kind of slowly, just scraping down the walls and clearing away the dirt. Except I kept finding the teeniest tiniest little bones (Fish? Baby bird? Both?) so that slowed down the work considerably.
At the end of the day, Val, Arina, Mark and myself decided to sunbathe for awhile. I finished rereading Small Gods (as good as ever!) and had to patiently wait for Val to finish her book so I could start reading that one. It is, incidentally, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Jesus' Childhood Friend, by Christopher Moore; it's pretty funny and I find myself chuckling every few pages. This'll be my seventh book here, and as I wanted to beat last year's Personal Porolissum Record of six books, I'll be a happy camper when this one's done (which will be soon, as I'm already a hundred pages in.)

So we're going to spend a little more time on Internet here for awhile, then I expect we'll go out and explore the town for a bit. We'll snag some dinner and prepare for a full day's sightseeing and shopping tomorrow.

'Til next time, voi iubesc!