After arriving in Romania around midnight (and being awakened by the border police) we tried to sleep. Everyone happily but sleepily woke up around 7. We tried to brush teeth and get dressed in the very small cabin. It was a fun challenge :) Then we just hung out there until noon.

When we arrived in Bucharest, the train station was just as you would expect a developing country’s train station to be. We bought Gabriel a pretzel for 25 cents (he didn’t like it). Then had a long hot walk to Hotel Yesterday (where the conference placed Andrew). The AC didn’t work in our room - in fact I think the heater was on. It was miserable. Felicity and Gabriel were both screaming and sweating. I made a quick decision to get another hotel for the three of us so that we could let Andrew focus on his conference. I did a Priceline express deal and wound up in a terrible location but at a nice hotel (with AC!).

We settled in at the Premier Palace. Had some dinner at the hotel restaurant. Then Andrew headed back to his conference. I gave our sweet sleepy children a bath and tucked them in. Then sweet sleep time.

What a sweet day. Last night I thought that I would be anxious sleeping alone with our angels. I thought that someone would kidnap them. But I slept so soundly (probably from sheer exhaustion - I only slep about 4 hours on the train).

I woke up around 6:30 and was able to brush my teeth and wash my face before Gabriel woke up. Then we snuggled. Then Felicity woke up and we nursed while Gabriel played Khan Academy Kids in my phone.

We had a beautiful breakfast at the hotel. Everyone was very kind and helpful.

Felicity was ready to go early and Gabriel woke me up three times during the night. It was a grumpy start.

We had a nice breakfast, then packed up and took the bus to the train station. We got “first class” tickets to Braşov. It was still the grimiest train I have ever been on. Gabriel and Felicity touched everything. I hope we don’t get sick!

When we arrived in Braşov we decided that it would be safest to take a taxi up to our mountain hotel.

We got lunch at a very glitzy but not too tasty restaurant. Then checked into our spacious hotel apartment. During nap, Andrew and I got to have the longest chat that we’ve had in a while. It was very nice :)

I was up first this morning. It’s so nice to have a few minutes of silence to start the day.

We all headed down to the breakfast buffet in the hotel. It wasn’t as good as our breakfast buffet in Bucharest. But I would much rather be in Braşov than Bucharest, so I won’t complain :)

We headed straight out to the lifts. But they were closed so we hiked up a beautiful mountain until Andrew saw bear claw marks all over where we were on trees and rocks. So we decided to turn around.

We went to a fancy hotel for lunch. But it was a disaster because they sat us at 11:45 even though the kitchen didn’t open until 12:30!!! But at least it was tasty.

Poor Felicity has been really fussy the past few days. I think she must be getting some new teeth.

Gabriel and I got some nice early morning snuggles. He woke up early to check for snow :) Felicity woke up and we got some snuggle nursing time.

Then we all headed down for the hotel breakfast buffet. Gabriel thinks these free hotel breakfasts are very fancy :)

After breakfast we headed out to the lift. It was SO cold. When we got to the lifts, we saw that they were in fact running so we got a return ticket. Thank goodness we did, the lift took us MUCH higher than I expected. Straight through the clouds and into a frozen land.

It was SO cold at the top. Poor Felicity’s hands were so cold that she just cried and cried until we got back down. It even hurt to smile for this photo with Gabriel.

Our last day of our journey!

We woke late and quickly got ready for our hotel breakfast. Then we called a taxi and went to the Braşov station. Poor Felicity got carsick and threw up right as we got to the station. Luckily she was in the front pack facing me, so most of the vomit landed on me (and not her or the taxi).

Our train was delayed so we had plenty of time to get cleaned up on the very cold platform. The train ride was pleasant. We got to Bucharest about one. We missed our bus to the airport so took our time and had tea at the coffee shop in the station. The bus ride was packed and slow. Luckily it’s quite cold so it wasn’t too hot carrying Felicity in the front pack, standing on a crowded bus.

We made it to the airport and on a whim tried to see if we could fly out this afternoon. We could have, but it would have cost 400 euro. So we decided to wait for our flight tomorrow and head to our airport hotel.