It's the Small Things

Today was a national holiday here in Romania and so B's archives were closed and we spent some time just relaxing together. [B here: The holiday commemorates the unification in 1918 of the Kingdom of Romania with the provinces of Bucovina, Bessarabia, and especially Transylvania. Today there was a huge military parade complete with tanks and rocket launchers. Kind of scary, and a reminder how nationalist Romania still is. Needless to say, the holiday is not exactly celebrated by Romania's minority populations, like Hungarians, who are less happy about the status quo.] We had a chance to catch up on some emails and had a nice breakfast, which included TOAST! from our new toaster. These days it's just the little things that make me happy.

Later this afternoon, we took a walk around our neighborhood to get some fresh air. It was really cold out, but we were both happy to just get out and have a change of scenery. We had a quick dinner at a restaurant in a mall that is close to our home. The restaurant serves sushi and different asian dishes, as well as more common Western meals, such as eggs and bacon as well as ham sandwiches and greek salads. The food was good and the the owner, who is a Filipino woman married to an Israeli businessman originally from Romania, came to talk with us and told us the restaurant is relatively new and she hopes to be able to add delivery soon. Full of yummy asian food, we braved the cold weather and walked back home. This evening we plan to put up the few Christmas decorations we bought yesterday and get to bed early as tomorrow morning will be rather busy. We both have a meeting with an organization called the Center for Independent Journalism that is doing a project we may both be able to assist with and before the meeting we plan to go to the Starbucks close to us that I mentioned earlier. Tomorrow is their grand opening and I am pretty excited about it. What did I say about the small things?-S