Our first...

Vampire bite!

So, we've got a list going of "who will be the first to...." and so far step in dog crap is me, fall on the stairs is me (actually fell up the stairs, but same difference, although we've all had incidents on the "twisting terror" as Marya calls it), and lo and behold, yesterday we encountered our first vampire bite! Shown above is Marya's trash can wound (don't ask), but it's more fun to say she's been bitten by a follower of Count Dracula...speaking of which, we might be going to a place called Club Dracula this evening. Should be interesting.

A little subway story for ya: This morning I was about to get on so I put my pass in the reader and went to go through the turnstyle but it didn't budge. Marc and Marya had gone through ahead of me and they said I looked like a dear caught in headlights. It was a little nerveracking considering the guard pointed at me and sternly told me to stay where I was. At least that's what I think he said. Marya and I have a tendency to magically translate Romanian to English even when we have no clue what they're saying. Seems to work so I think we'll stick with it. I've been trying to speak a lot more Romanian now that I'm getting the pronunciation down for common words so I can at least function in a normal everyday conversation. Most people are pretty receptive to us when we at least attempt to speak in their language. I'm sure that sometimes we're slaughtering it, but at least we're having fun!

Tonight's our first full weekend here, so we're planning to check out some of the night life. It's been a long week and I'm exhausted, but I think I can stay up for a little Romanian clubbing/bar hopping :) Based on our past week, I can only imagine what's going to happen when we're out, but I'm sure it will make for some amusing posts.