Grape harvest festival, and superheroes.

It is cold and rainy outside, and I'm curled up in the coffee shop, sipping hot chocolate, bundled up in a cozy sweater, with one more of my homework assignments out of the way.

I've been super blessed this weekend people, let me tell you.

Yesterday I woke up to fall. If you know me, you'll know fall is my most favorite season. I love the feeling in the air, the leaves falling off the trees, pretty much everything about it. I made my way to our Saturday morning brunch to find that we were having biscuits and gravy. Honestly, that alone would have made my whole day, but it got better. We were informed of a grape harvest festival going on in the village, so a couple hours later a group of us headed into the village.



It is a true cultural experience. The people dress up, and decorate their wagons. They go through town, then they all get out and eat, and dance.

We joined in on the dancing!

I cannot even express how cool it was. These kind of things are one of my favorite things about being in a foreign country, I love getting to be a part of their traditions and seeing their culture. Everyone was so nice, they offered us pastries, and when they started dancing pulled us in to dance with them.

After the festivities were over we headed back to the castle.

That nights theme for dinner was superhero/damsels in distress.

Its so much fun to see how creative everyone gets with their costumes, and I think out of the theme nights we've had so far this has been the one most participated in.






This morning I was able to go with a couple of sweet friends of mine with one of the families to church. It was such a blessing, it is kind of hard to go anywhere to church on Sunday's, so its really great anytime we get the opportunity.

So this has been my weekend. I'm a little sad it is almost over, but this time next week I'll be in Romania!


Enjoy your Sunday everyone!

Much love,
-Sara.