A few days ago we went to the mountains (the Carpathian Mountains). We hiked all the way to the top of one mountain where there was a cabin called "Fantanele", which means "Little Fountains" and I don't know why, because there weren't any fountains! We saw a pine tree that had fallen down from a storm, and it was much easier to climb it sideways than climbing vertically! (I just walked on it). The pine tree leaves smelled good, so I took some branches that were on the ground and put them on a rock. I didn't want to lose them so I put signs all the way to the top of the mountain with sticks and rocks. I put sticks and rocks behind trees, behind mossy places, and in tree stumps that were really broken and old, so you could put the sticks in easily. On the way back down the mountain we saw the sticks that I put there and followed them. After that, we crossed two little streams that didn't really have a name yet, which is funny because on top of the mountain where the cabin was, there was that word "Fantanele" that meant "little fountains", and were no fountains. Then we went back home where we were staying with my mom's friend. There was a river right in front of the house, so we had to cross a bridge to get to her house. (My mom accidentally dropped her sunglasses in that river when we fist got there (uh oh!)).
The second day there in the mountains I ate my first "salcam" (salkuum) flower which you can see in this picture. It tasted really sweet and it smelled really good, so we took some of their seed and are going to try and plant them. My mom liked those flowers when she was little, too. Next, we went to the side of the river and found little sticks and made a little raft for bugs and tested it out and watched it float away, but then we caught it in the river with a really long stick so we knew it worked, and there was one bug on it, I think it was a spider, but it wasn't poisonous (it must have been a water spider). That was a lot of fun!
