Our anniversary dinner photos and other crazy news

Hi All,

Two weeks ago, we wrote to let you know about our sudden change of plans to stay longer here in Romania. This was to be only the start of a very crazy week.

just that following monday Joel came down with a fever which lasted all week and was finally diagnosed as a viral infection. On top of that, the following Saturday we had to take a day trip to Bulgaria (just for stamps on Joel's passport and a new visa to Romania) . On the way we got in an accident in our friend's car (she was driving) and so sorting that out took about 5 hours (four or so at the police station). No one was seriously hurt though (thank God) but both cars were damaged beyond drivability (is that a word?) . Anyway, Dana's father drove down from Bucharest to lend us his car to cross the border. Unfortunately when we got there, we were told that we couldn't use the car to cross on the Bulgarian side because the registration had to be in one of our names, which it wasn't and Tata (dad) didn't have a passport :( They said we couldn't cross by foot either! So we had to ask someone to drive us in their car, drop us off in the nearest town to the border. We spent about 40 minutes there and then hitched a ride back to Romania.

The trip ended up taking the whole day, when it could have taken only 3 hours!!!

We are happy to let you all know that everything has worked out now and we're also picking up our visas to India this afternoon!

Joel got over the fever some 4-5 days ago and we're ready to get back to India! :-) We'll get to Delhi the morning of September 10th.

Thank you all for keeping us in your 'thoughts' even in the absence of communication.
That's about it for now.

Shanti (peace) to all...