Today was a bitter sweet day. I truly enjoyed being at camp, even with its emotional ups and downs, but I knew we had to go back to Bucharest. The Faber’s were arriving the next afternoon and as supporters, it would only be right for the Mather’s to be there and pick them up when they arrived. BUT, before we went back we still had some work to do.
Earlier in the morning, Cami and Steve trimmed a few of the many trees at camp. If I remember right they are hazelnut trees. I came to find out the Cami or Steve, I do not remember which, actually grew up with these type of trees when they were younger. So needless to say, they had experience with these trees. When they had finished trimming the trees, more like taking whole limbs and branches off they left to go finish staining the front of Cabin 2 aka the Girls Dorm.
While they stained I was given a task. They mentioned the day before that all of the brush needed to be burned, but they were going to add to the brush pile beforehand. So… as one who loves to play with fire, I freely offered to help move the brush to the burn pile. Plus it gave me some work to do. :)
Moving this brush to the brush pile turned out to be a very hard working day. It wasn’t too bad, but the amount of times that you had to go back and forth is probably what made it so hard to finish. First, it turned out to be a really warm day with the temperature at least in the 90’s. Then, I didn’t want to ask the Renee and McKenna, two of the Mather sisters, to help because it was their vacation. It wouldn’t have been fair to them to ask them to work. So, I carried the trees, branches, and limbs from the bottom of one side of the hill diagonal to a higher spot on the hill. Hard work that took me a few hours and left me a little dehydrated, but the job was finished with the help of a lovely Miss Renee who picked up all of the little twigs so I wouldn’t have to do it. She is so sweet.
After all the work for this trip was finished, we packed up the car and headed out. During this car ride I was super curious yet again and decided to ask questions moderately in order not to exhaust them in their answering, so a lot was learned. Unfortunately most of the facts are stored away somewhere in my brain and only can be recalled by the questions being asked again.
I do remember that I was extremely curious about how many tram accidents there are and I was told that there really aren’t many. Apparently a year ago though there was a pretty big accident and one person died, but that was all they could actually think of and that wasn’t even in Bucharest. With that knowledge I pretty much learned that public transportation is definitely a safe way to travel. Especially after you see some of the driving over here. J
Well, after a long day of work and travel, we were back in Bucharest and headed off to bed for another wonderful day with visitors arriving. What could be better? We accomplished things at the camp, had safe travels, a couple from the state’s were coming who were from Iowa, and life was good. If only we knew how the next few days were going to turn out.
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