Bears Cave

Damn this week was full. I can't belive it. I couldn't get the time to write about what else happened while Matt was in Romania, visiting me. Anyway... So about this Bears Cave. Is that a cave full of bears? Or maybe it's a cave owned by somebody named Bears. Well the first option is more close to reality. It is a cave indeed, in Bihor county, Romania, discovered back in 1875 by accident, where were found about 154 cave bear skeletons. This species of bears was extinct around 12000 years ago, during the last ice age.
This is the place where Matt and I, together with Flaviu and Ioana (Christina) went on Sunday. It was so cool. We woke up early in the morning after just few hours of sleep. We took all the passengers form their beds and left the city behind. It's not a long drive, just about 90Km, so in no time we were there. I was shocked to be required to pay besides the entrance fee (about 1,5 EUR), also a photo fee(about 4,5 EUR). WTF is that? I mean why do I have to pay to take photos? Anyway. We paid and got inside. The guide started telling us about the cave in Romanian, so I had to translate to Matt. Man, that wasn't easy. The guy was speaking quite fast and my English, definately got worse since I last spoke it. Anyway, after about 45 minutes minutes of cave exploring and 200 photos later (we definately took photos for that money) we got out. Then we realized again how hot actually was outside. I've understood that inside the cave it's a constant temperature of +10 degrees Celsius, no matter the season. Well outside there were at least 30.

Ioana felt the urge to pick up flowers once we got outside. Flowers that we've called weeds all day after. It was so much fun. But she seamed really happy having them. The whole way back she was blabbering about the way I was taking turns on the road, as the little plastic bottle that she used for putting the flowers in waters, kept falling. I am sorry that the road is not straight, Ioana. :)

So we left Bears Cave, with that nice feeling that you've seen something beautiful. Well that was short, as we came across this nice museum.

It was amazing. This nice family was hosting freely a state of the art museum in their own house. It was full of old stuff. And I mean really old. Stuff dating from even before World Wars. Starting with traditional clothes and soldier helmets, continuing with tools for gardening or woodcutting, and ending with really old fireplaces and spindles, this whole museum impressed us to the bone. We even found a jack (cric) for the wagon, made out of wood. And a chain made out of wood. Wow! That was cool! We were thinking how the hell did the creator made it. It was a chain with it's rings put together, but without cutting or glueing the wood. Amazing. Too bad Matt didn't felt like joining us, as he took of he's shoes, and he was too lazy to put them back on. We were speechless when we came out.

Once we got back to Oradea, we felt like going to the pool. So we went. Too bad it was closing about 1/2 hour later, so we had to change plans again. We went back to Felix where we were supposed to meet Relu and Georgi, but, sadly we could not set up the meeting properly, so we couldn't find them. We had a nice sandwich though :)

Once we got home, around 8pm, we were so tired that we didn't felt like going out anymore. So we just hanged around and played monopoly. Obviously Matt won. I couldn't believe it. He was so damn lucky! :)