Here in Romania labor day is held on 1st May(which was yesterday). There’s a tradition over here that almost everyone goes out in the nature(mostly outside the forests) to make a grill with the family and to make mici( mici is a traditional Romanian dish, a kind of grilled minced-meat rolls made from beef (usually mixed with mutton and pork meat).

I wouldn’t want to break the tradition would i? So we decided to go near the zoo(there’s a big spot filled with grass where we usually go every year to grill, and lots and lots of other people also go).

On wednesday me and my girlfriend went to the local hypermarket and bought the necessary food:

- 2x 2 litre Pepsi twist

- 2,5 litre Skoll beer

- 1KG meat for mici

- 4 sausages

- 2,5 kilograms of bread

- mustard

- a big cucumber, 1KG tomatoes

- 250 grams of cheese(how could this miss from camp fire?)

Total price: 21$

in addition to what we bought my girlfriend brought 2kg’s of potatoes and some other condiments and stuff. Norbert brought the grill, the axe and some other tools required to setup the fire. The irony was that neither of us remembered to bring matches to light the fire, so i had to go over to a “neighbour” who setup his grill close to us and ask for some matches.

We had a hard time starting the fire, because all the paper we got was commercial colored paper, and it took a time till it started burning. After we got the fire started everything went pretty smoothly. me and norbert brought some dry branches and wood and made a pretty good fire.

We got there at 11PM and we got the food done at 3 PM. Its a great feeling to do everything by hand and work your ass off to get everything done. Its hard but in the end its worth it, even the food tastes better. I don’t like to go out grilling with a grill that uses coal, and all you need to do is spice up the coal, put some fuel on it and in a matter of 30minutes you got everything ready and your ready to eat. We went there to spend all our day in the nature, not to go there and come home in 2 hours.

The food was great, we were pretty overwhelmed by it, also almost all the beer got drank by me, because both Norbert and my girlfriend preferred to drink pepsi.

Here are some pictures from yesterday:

After we ate we gathered all the trash and threw it away in the nearby trashcan, we arranged the remaining food to be in one place and we laid down, we even used the umbrella because the sun was shining so bright(good thing i brought my sunglasses).

At 5 PM we went to the zoo, which was full so we sort of checked out the animals in an express way. I still can’t believe the 600KG bull stuck his head out so people can cuddle him.

From the zoo on our way home we stopped at a restaurant looking place where we ate some desert, from where we went home. On our way home one side of the sky was filled with clouds, the other was bright blue, somewhere most probably it rained somewhere because a cool rainbow was formed.

We were lucky that it was good weather, because today it rained a lot and it was an ugly weather. The most important thing is that we went, we had fun and didn’t encounter any problems, oh and most importantly we took pictures!