Well I had written half of a perfectly good and incredibly boring post about Day 5 in Romania. And now its gone. I don’t know where it went! I didn’t accidentally publish it, and I don’t know how I could have deleted it. So maybe I will find it when I get back on the good wifi. Maybe day 5 will be forever shrouded in mystery and undocumented.

One mystery from day 5 that I will shed some light on is the KFC crispy hot dog. We had seen some billboards for this and were quite intrigued, as any normal person would be. So it is a crispy chicken strip in a stale hot dog bun with ketchup, mustard, pickless, and onions. Now that thetwinsontour have sampled this culinary delight (?), you need not fall to temptation to this regrettable menu specialty. On the plus side, thetwinsontour did not have to #saynotothestraw at KFC because they had paper straw!! Woohoo! Good thing we had already planned to go to the grocery store for chocolate pudding and snacks. Due to our disappointing hotdogs, we also picked up a yogurt.

So, onto day 6. This morning started out with a walking tour of Targu Mures to see the sights. Luckily, thetwinsontour explored this part of town the night before on our own and had already gotten millions of pictures of the beautiful Art Deco buildings without people in the way. Thetwinsontour hate it when tourists get in the way of their pictures! Local people are acceptable, sometimes. I’m not really sure why there were so many art deco buildings there (with a few ugly communist buildings mixed in) or why there was a building boom there in the 1890s (one of them said 1890 at the top). Anyways the buildings were quite beautiful and we loved them all.

Then we went to an ancient library that didn’t allow photos. I don’t know what it is with these places that don’t allow photos. It’s not so that they can make money on postcards because they didn’t have a gift shop or any postcards. What a missed opportunity on their part. But I can screenshot the few pictures they have on their website! (see below) The library was founded by a rich nobleman in the late 1700s who went around Europe on a book shopping spree and came home with thousands of books for his library. thetwinsontour wish they could go on a multi year shopping spree! We could excell at that for sure! Especially if our goal was gas station candy bars! We try to be strong, but every time we stop for a potty break we end up buying another candy bar, or seven. We just can’t help it. We are powerless against the wide variety of Milka chocolate bars available.

After that we were back on the the road again. Apparently it was a super windy road with lots of twists and turns through the mountains. I say apparently because after searching the woods for brown bears as we drove past and not spotting any, I quickly fell asleep for the rest of the journey.

After lunch we made a quick photo stop in Bicaz Canyon. We were also supposed to have time to shop in the souvenir stands on the side of the road, but obviously our tour guide underestimates the amount of time my sister needs to take selfies because we were the last ones back on the bus and we didn’t have time to buy a darn thing. The canyon looks more like you are standing in between some mountains than standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon. I wouldn’t have known it was a canyon if not for the name. I would have just thought it was a pretty photo spot.

Now comes the tricky part. Our final destination was Maldova! No, not the country that most of our faithful readers have probably never heard of, but rather the region of Romania called Maldova. I haven’t looked at a map to see how close we were to adding another country to the list, but at least we weren’t close enough to get a welcome to Maldova text on our cell phones because that would be tragic to be so close to another country, yet so far away. Maldova the country was a part of Romania before Communism, but then it was annexed and became part of the USSR and the other half stayed part of Romania. After the fall of communism the USSR part became it’s own country instead of going back to Romania because its mostly Russians that live in the country of Maldova now (even google lists the official language as Russian). See, it’s a little complicated.

On that note of confusion, I shall let you go for now.

Love,

thetwinsontour

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