Kyustendil

So, several weeks ago we took a little trip to Kyustendil. It's a town about an hour, hour and a half away with some Roman fortress ruins and a nice little pedestrian area, etc. It was such a pretty drive, on little hilly roads past mountains! Small-ish mountains, but still, mountains. Here are some pictures... And YES, it was a few weeks back. Our internet is not as reliable as we would like. Makes it heck to keep up with blogging... I think it's starting to get better. I guess Z calling them every other day and them promising to check things out may pay off. Just maybe. Anyway, the pics!

I just get slightly giddy at signs like this... I mean, we can drive to ATHENS!

These little platforms are all over the place on street corners. I need to find out why. No one's ever inside them.

In the main plaza in Kyustendil. Bran went decked out with his "arm shields" (toilet paper tubes) and his knight "helmy casco" ("helmet" and "casco" is helmet in Spanish. That's what they call 'em.)

How dang cute are these two?? This is the picture I put on the header...obviously. Because, look! They're BOTH smiling!!

Then we found a nice playground to play at for a while. NO wooden slides. Our playing was cut short by Nuala's need to pee. Her very first public public potty break. Where we had to frantically search for a toilet and thankfully found one in time! Ahhh, sweet success.

Heading to the Roman fortress ruins. Bran ready to fight dragons.

This hug turned dangerous as they both got a little wrestly and, as happens, wobbly on the slightly steep stairs. We rescued them in time.

There were lots of lizards at the ruins, so those "baby dragons" were fun to chase. We didn't really get any good pictures of the fortress...or of the awesome hamburger thing I had in Kyustendil. Or of the deeeeelicious ice cream cones... or of the guy selling people the chance to weigh themselves on his scale. What an entrepreneur. But, we had fun!