Oradea sightseeing

It has been a long Saturday. I woke up quite early, taking into consideration that last night we got home very late and got to bed even later. We had breakfast and we went to Baile Felix. We shown Matt the water lilies and other things around this place and then we went for a chess game at the Thermal Hotel. You know, those big chess pieces I've mentioned before. It was cool. Until I lost :P Nah, it was great all the way. It wasn't easy for him to beat me anyway. He needed a lot of focus :)

After that we went back to Oradea and met up with my friends Relu and Georgi to go for a tour. We saw the old buildings from the center of the town, the Theatre, and an old synagogue. It was very cool to find out more about it and about the Jews beliefs. I tried to translate to Matt as accurate as possible whatever we got from this old man who was kind enough to tell us a few words about that building and about this religion. The building was nice also, but kinda left to fall apart as there weren't enough money to make it look good. Too bad. In front of the synagogue, in the picture to the right, you can see a white tent. Well that's where it was hold an event which we also visited before the synagogue: "The Days of the Romanian Carpet". I don't know much about carpets, but I really don't think those were traditional carpets. So it wasn't much fun.

After the short religious enlightenment, we went to visit the Fortress of Oradea. Well it's a nice very old building. Quite large, dating since around the year 1000. I hope he liked this also.

Later, we went out. Well it was a hell of a night. We had so much fun, and so many laughs. Amazing. Around 4:30am, after a long night of going through different clubs and pubs we decided to go to eat. That's when the real fun began. Matt needed to take a leak so he embraced the nature. Literally! We still don't know what he stepped in, but it sure smelled like sh*t. We were sitting at the table, together with Flaviu and Ioana (well Cristina, as Matt knows her) and we were laughing like crazy. You should have seen the look on Matt's face. He was really worried about smelling so bad, but still, laughing with us. I really believe that he stepped, up to his waist, in some sewer drains or something, because it was sure as hell stinking bad. I am happy though that he didn't hurt himself. Just got seriously dirty. I can't find my words right now to describe the whole story, but I do hope that Matt's gonna present it on his blog with more details. We got home very late that night. Around 6:00 AM, just well for a few hours of sleep, to get ready for the next day, when we were to go to the Bears Cave.