Last night we went to the home of my son's 11-year old friend for a birthday party, and let me say this: Romanians really know how to throw a birthday party for kids, because they include the parents in the process.
We ate well, but drank even better. Romanians know their fruit liquors, and because many are simply not sold here in the US, are good at moonshining. We had three kinds of homemade plum brandy, and a sour cherry liquor they call Visinata--. Wicked stuff, one of them, called Tuica, could have stripped layers of paint off a picnic table--but the plum brandy labeled (with a piece of masking tape) "Plum Tails" was pretty good--it may have been mislabeled, it tasted more like Calvados or Applejack.
Fun night. Frontal lobes are paying for it dearly this morning. Ohhhhhhhhhh!