Apparently my skin is glued

Hello, today was just fantastichno. We ran in the morning to the park with President Karadjov like normal and then ate the best breakfast ever - it was just oatmeal. Tania is a magic worker, how she made it so good I just don't know. Then we all cleaned the apartment - We all were kinda singing to ourselves different songs, that was a nice moment. THEN we packed up and got on our way to my first bulgarian picnic this summer on Vitosha mountain.

Carolyn and I had already cooked our portion of the picnic - snicker brownies and frog eye salad yesterday, so we just grabbed that along with a bucket of marinated meat and shicabobs and what else do you need in life? really? We through Altye in the back and little Berti sat in the back with Tania and Carolyn.

It is beautiful on you way because you leave the biggest city in the country to small cobble stone roads with forest on either side. You are in a completely different place, its amazing. Once we parked we found a little path and hiked to "our place" as they called it because 2 summers ago we had gone with the branch and done a bbq. It was lovely to be all together. I feel very close to them, our surrogate family here. Not in a way that I would tell them everything really about things that are hard for me, but i just feel sooo loved by them and they really care for us in every way. It feels so great. I just pray that I can know how to give back to them and how to know what help I can be.

So we found "our place" and set up camp. I chatted with President about trees and plant spirits - how that is a mystery to me yet I know its true that they have spirits. I wonder if they have feelings. President was feeling bad cuz the fire was slow, but it ended up making the most delicious and juicy and tender shishcabobs -- mmmmmmmm. With green and red pepper, eggplant(blue tomatoe is another name in Bulgarian), onion, and tomatoe. We ate and chatted and were all really glad to be in the fresh air. It was just so nice.

After we ate we all laid down on a nice sheet to nap. Before Carolyn and I laid down I gave her a little shoulder rub. President said, is there something wrong Carolyn? I can take a look at your shoulders if you want. . . Then Tania commanded her to lay down, feet facing down. Then Presdient revealed that he was a massuse for years. ! . Ok, if I ever knew that, I suvsem forgot. Cool though huh?? Then he gave her a 45 minute massage and said he would take a look at me too if I wanted. So then I received the most thorough head massage of my life. Apparently my scalp muscles are tight!! And he did things to my head that felt sooooooo good. Oh man. He rubbed my head and neck for 45 mins to an hour. Wow. I say, wow. That was so awesome. I was in some kind of bliss. Just eaten beautiful picnic, in a beautiful mountain camp site, laying in the sun, getting a head massage with people I consider my family, and President teaching us facts about our health all the while. It was something beautiful. Memorable. Hubav Hubav e jivot.