Recent Happenstance

In between teaching (Joy) and web-developing (Randall), we do have a little bit of free time :)  Thought we'd share some of what fills that free time... as of late...

1. Dog Park!

We looooooooooove our local dog park.  We may even love it more than Liza.  We usually go in the evening after dinner (when we've found many other dog owners are there).  Now, don't get us wrong, Liza is our little Princess (as our local pet store owner refers to her), but we have absolutely enjoyed getting to know these other local K-9 pets!  Just to name a few: Murphy (black lab), Albert (yellow lab), Jessie (mut-german shepherd), Rudy (bull terrier), Herra (husky), Herra #2 (rottweiler), Bo-Bo (mini pincher), Rio (yellow lab puppy) and many, many more.  Here are a just a few shots of her in the park... We've gotta be better about not just taking pics of Liza :)

 

 

 

 

She really is a princess, isn't she? :)

This is the not the last of the dog park, believe us... 

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2.  Museums

Bulgaria does this really cool thing where they open all their museums for free, at night, twice a year (once in the spring, once in the fall).  Maybe we do this in American; no idea.  Anyway, the fall museum night was this past Saturday.  So, we headed right down to the Archaeological & Historical museum.  Here are just a few pics (before we were told not to take pictures):

 
 This is the logo for the night at the museum - "нощ" (nosht) means "night."

 

 

We'll have to go back when it's a little cooler... it was still warm, here, last weekend, and, since it was free, there were a lot of people a the museums.  We've got 2 years!

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3. Skull Racing

Plovdiv has an olympic-sized canal (3 km long), the largest in the country, in Plovdiv.  And, our Bulgarian neighbors-best buddies invited us to watch the European Skull Racing Championship on Sunday.  Liza came along, the weather cooperated, and we even found some delicious donuts at the concession stand!  Priorities are priorities, right?

Here are some of those shots...

 
Jokingly, all day, we pulled for the "blue" team.  They won most races!

 
Vania & Marty are in the front (our neighbors) & the other family in the back are new friends.  Mila (the little girl) fell in love with Liza that day & took care of her the whole time :)

Couldn't resist this one.  Mila's grandma came, too, and while the boys weren't skateboarding, she was in charge of hanging on to them.  Love it!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

TTFN!  Ta-ta for now!