May 29 - We Arrive In Novi Sad With SIM Cards In Place, Money In Hand, And Sheer Joy At The Size Of The Place We're Staying

Wow, this apartment!
We spread out, shut doors, relax
Roam the streets for food

May 28 - The Skies Open On Timisoara After Some Big Driving Failures On The A1 When Googleova Fails To Grasp That An Exit Is Closed

GPS goes wrong
We arrive hungy and damp
to find this sweet spot

May 27 - Creepy-Crawling Our Way To Bran Castle

No vampires in sight
I eat round bread cooked on coals
Damn all this road work

May 26 - Full Day Of Big Walking In Fabulous Sighisoara (Which I Now Know To Call Siggy-Shwara)

Hills and stairs to climb
Gage and I take the back roads
Seeking distant views

May 25 - Possibly The Strangest Tourist Attraction Ever In The Underground Of Turda

Deep in the salt mine
We row in the gloom, breathing
therapeutic air

May 24 - I Search In Vain For Papanasi, But We Do Find A Late-Night Cabbage Eatery After The KFT Show

Hey, a walking tour
Hip city packed with students
Night brings old rockers

May 23 - On The Road To Cluj-Napoca, Having Decided To Ditch One More Night In Monastery Territory

Goats crowd the highway
I'll miss these green mountain views
We're urban-bound now

May 22 - A Busy Day Takes Us To Suceava Fortress And Monasteries At Suceavita and Dragomirna

Rhythmic wood drumming
She calls the nuns to prayer
As it's always been

May 21 - The Monastery Visits Begin With A Surprise Scramble Around Icy, Beautiful Pietrele Doamnei

Voronet-blue tales
Five hundred years and still here
We hike to the snow

May 20 - One Of Those Times Where You Go Looking For One Thing But Find Another That's Possibly Even Better, And Also Ride The Piatra Neamt Telegondola

The church should be closed
In fact, it's not the right one
But it's magic here

May 19 - In Which We Don't Get To Go To The Peasant Museum

But why is it closed?
Never mind. There's markets here
Pokemon park day

May 18 - Buna Dimineata, Bucaresti

Lost in the city
No GPS! Roundabouts!
Then we walk and walk

May 17 - Lost In The Time Change On The Long, Long Haul From Vancouver To Bucharest

This day is so long
Did I sleep at all? Not much
Binged on "Killing Eve"

May 16 - Sunset Somewhere Over Manitoba

Car, ship, bus, metro
That's just to get to the plane
Red-eye to London

May 15 - The Playdate Gang Heads To Gyro Park, Where Much Fun And Mad Runs To The Bathroom Ensue

Nothing beats beach play
Two kids in mild sunshine
Building driftwood forts

May 14 - Hysteria At The Preschool Dropoff

The girl's losing it
Hard-hearted, I leave her there
Bridget says it's fine

May 13 - Also, Today The Baby Was Named Beatrice Mae

Shower curtain's shot
Fragile R can't bear the loss
I hunt duplicates

May 12 - A Mixed Bag Of Events Makes For A Pleasant Mother's Day, Even Though I Don't Even Like The Concept

Mother's Day bike ride
I eat tarts with R and Co
Then "Mamma Mia"

May 11 - She Was Done Crying By The Time We Turned Onto Bay Street

It's Buccaneer Days
Tearful beginning as R
seethes with emotion

May 10 - The Social Services Roundtable Gets Its Start, And I'm Pleased To Have A Seat At It Even Though Managing My Expectations Thoroughly

Aren't I the big shot?
Wearing a weird Wal-Mart blouse
Flying Helijet

May 9 - And Then We Ordered Pizza And I Fell Asleep On The Couch

Moving day again
Preschool is a trauma, but
the kid does stay put

May 8 - Taking R Home From Sidney (And Back) Has Me Reflecting On How I Can't Handle This Crazy Traffic Anymore, As If Years Of Busing Flipped Me

The thing about drives
is I hate them to pieces
All tolerance gone

May 7 - A Late-Afternoon Visit To VGH Complete With Commuter Crawl And Construction Waits Is No Fun For Anyone

R is acting out
Wish we had skipped this visit
By night, all is calm

May 6 - Baby's In The House, Plus It's Moving Day With A Four-Year-Old

Pumpkin has arrived!
We visit, though Lady R
hates the hospital

May 5 - Early-Morning Wakeup Call As Grandchild 9 Gets Serious About Arrival

Call comes just past 3
I head to the baby house
to snuggle my pal

May 4 - When The Weather And The Period Of Free Time Coincide

Let's seize this sunshine
Reading is a luxury
This yard won't last long

May 3 - A Day Mostly Stolen For Myself After Realizing That The Only Way To Reduce Hours Is To Reduce Hours

Here's what I could do:
Work less. Bike-ride more. Walk dogs.
Read in the late sun

May 2 - I Accompany Chelle To The Non-Stress Test And Recall The Feeling Of Cold Jelly On Your Belly

Room's full of Baby
Squeaky little duck heart beats
Come on out, wee one

May 1 - Birthday Pony Rides For The Two Wee Ones Was Like Witnessing The Start Of A Love Story

Her face is pure joy
She sits astride her pony
like she's born to it

April 30 - Chicken 6/49 For The Family Birthday Dinner

We're here for the queen
She orders us about, then
sneaks away with Paul

April 29 - They Always Do Warn You That The Years Slip By Fast

Heron Rock dinner
My man is 67
I'm so much younger