Does this ramp meet code? If you managed to get your wheelchair up to breakneck speeds and actually made it up this ramp, you would slam into the nice marble pillars waiting on the top step! 
One of the most beautiful buildings we saw in the part of Romania we saw. It is a museum that houses the folk costumes of years gone by, even some wedding dresses. No photos here! Check out the handicap ramp just to the right of the bottom step.
Greek rocks. I think we should have started some sort of International class through UAB on rocks. By now we would all have a degree.
The triangle rocks in the front were used as weights on fishing nets sometime BC.
Rocks that they would let you touch!!
Cereals and SUNFLOWERS!!
Romania is not ready for American tourists. They had to stretch to put together a tour for us and as it turns out, we picked a tour that of course included ROCKS! If you ever read that Romans or Greeks have ever been through any given country/continent, you can bet that someone at some point has dug up their ruins and now they have some sort of museum dedicated to it! I say that the Romanians are not ready for American tourists because none of their ruins were behind thick glass or had laser protection from thieves! I felt like Nicky could have filled his backpack with some of those rocks from 2000 BC! He did not. He could not have afforded to pay for the luggage overage every airline now charges!! Met a small girl that spoke no English except Coca-Cola. She pointed to a barn that saw across a pasture. The kids were tired and thirsty. We walked over to the barn passing 3 men smoking one of those crazy looking pipes and I pushed a carpet that was hanging as a door, to the side and inside the barn was a cooler that at the top said Coca-Cola. It would be a perfect TV commercial for Coke. After showing the man my American dollars and my Euros, he chose the Euros and I paid 4 Euros for 5 Cokes and we all left and headed back to look at more rocks. The people there are friendly and try hard to understand you, although not many people spoke English at all. After talking more loudly and using hand motions, we decided that English wasn't going to get it. We all need to get classes in basic Romanian before we come back here! The ride from the ship was 43 miles to look at their rocks and then we came back to the town of Constanta. During the ride, we saw MILES of farm land. Cereal comes from this part of the world and I am sorry to say that I was wrong about Bulgarian sunflowers. Romania, or at least the area we were in, has miles and miles and miles of them. I have never thought about where sunflowers come from, but I would have to say, if there is a capital of sunflower growing, it would be here and they are some kind of beautiful!!!
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