Labor Day in Romania

The first of May is Romania's Labor Day... Everyone was off work and out of school! Many different activities happened today, one of which was a picnic with Casa Rebeca. Now, a picnic here in Romania is not exactly what you may picture. Here, we go off road in our cars (which are not 4 wheel drive) until we find some woods. The kids then hop out and run into the woods for firewood!


As you can see Bella gathered a good bit! Secondly, our wonderful educator and "House Dad," Marius taught the boys how to build a fire.


The fire is important because this is not a sandwich and chips picnic... this is a grilled meech (like sausage), potatoes, onions, etc. picnic! Stefan, the youngest at Casa Rebeca stayed close by during the grilling process to make sure it was all going alright!


You will also see a lot of tree climbing, soccer playing, hill rolling, and other outdoor fun on one of these picnics! Krisztina is our very adventurous tree climber... We called her the little monkey all day!


One other thing you are quite likely to see here that you may not see on an American picnic is a shepherd leading his sheep right past you! It is pretty fun though.


As you can see... the kids from Casa Rebeca enjoyed their labor day very much. It is great to have times like this with them to teach them life skills, allow them to have fun outside and to have time just to sit and talk with them about what is going on in their lives. It was a great holiday!