Booked!

A steady rain fell throughout the day yesterday. Great for our grass, and great for the local farmers, many of whom had just finished seeding. And we had just had a fire ban instituted, so there's no reason that won't be removed. Raining again today, but it's supposed to clear up by Wednesday morning.

We don't take many days off while we're here at the park. There's always something that needs doing. But when it rains like that, it's an indoor kind of a day!

Said goodbye to our friends Phil and Wendy who left to go back to Moose Jaw. They didn't have a real long way to go, but the gravel roads out of here would sure be muddy!

Ruth baked some bread, and brought a few more things in from the motorhome and cleaned the motorhome fridge and put the racks back in. And she did some sewing repairs on a few clothing items.

Meanwhile I had told you about the possibility of booking a flight to Romania, so I got on the phone with a Flight Center travel agency where a good friend of our daughter's works.

For some reason, this flight wasn't available online at the $660 price that Google Flight Search had said. The best price I could find online was $685, and the flight times weren't as good.

I had all the routing codes and everything ready for the agent, and even then, the best price she could come up with was $674...it was only $14 higher, so we booked it anyhow! No idea where Google was coming up with the $660.

So, on November the 1st, we fly from Ottawa to Montreal, then Montreal to Zurich, Switzerland, then Zurich to Bucharest, Romania.

We'll be away for six weeks, and return December 15th.

Here's a map that shows where we fly into, and the general area...

Some of our time is going to be spent in the tiny country of Moldova (smaller than South Korea, and less than half the size of the state of Kansas). It is listed as one of the ten least visited countries in the world! 

But, there are some attractions in Moldova. The country has the largest wine cellar in the world. It's 55 kms (33 miles) of underground tunnels and you actually drive your car down there. In the tunnels are two million (yes, 2,000,000) bottles of wine!

And, we're going to visit the breakaway republic Transnistria, the most Russian place that you can visit outside of Russia.

And, we're possibly going to visit Istanbul, Bulgaria, and Serbia.

We're excited!

Here's some pics from our walk around the park yesterday evening when the rain stopped for a while...

Great horned owl youngster.

This rabbit sat perfectly still, acting like nobody could see him if he didn't move!

Lots of robins building their nests.

And our resident moose is still hanging around!

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