Month: June 2017

Best dance warmup after a late night of partying – stretching to live sax and cimbalom playing melodies from Bukovina. A bit warmer today – cool windy last few days was so pleasant! We’re all having a great time.

The first day of dance and singing classes were great for Judy, Dalia and me. Quite a good workout for brain and body. Dalia was thrilled how much she enjoyed it. Sophie played her accordion a bit and chose not to dance so far. Judy and I got in naps. 

Leaving Garrison on the lovely day of Sophie’s graduation we fully appreciated the beauty of the Hudson Highlands.  Garrison castle (Castle Rock ) was magnificent perched amid green hills. We got stuck in traffic for a while because a truck was wedged across one of the lanes of traffic, and Noel had to get out to direct traffic in order to get by.  

The girls played ukes and sang in the car which was sweet. The 2016 Sienna minivan is very comfortable and handles well even when stuffed to the gills.

Since we got an early start we made it all the way to Csipke camp (www.csipke.org) near Brooklyn MI by 1:30am and three of us settled in for the night while Judy danced and drank brandy with her buddies.
This morning when awoke we heard a loud croaking, which turned out to be three Sandhill Cranes having their breakfast on the hillside outside our cabin.  We have a private room although the walls to our neighbors are paper thin.  After breakfast we took an energetic dance class with young couple teaching dances from the Bucovina region.

This camp is wonderful although the accommodations are somewhat basic (for example our room has no shelves, cupboards, hangers, not even a towel hook.

I’ll post more pictures soon, and hopefully have more interesting things to write once I catch up on a bit of sleep.  For now we are having a wonderful time, and glad to have safely completed the first 600-odd miles of our trip.