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DAY OFF…RIGHT

 This day was Sunday, and the activities from the Branch don’t start until Monday.. We have a week packed  with activities which I will blog. …I was going to say blog each day…but I’m already behind in my days, so that ain’t happening. 😂😂.  Anyway, this day was a day just for us to chill and/or do whatever…well we did the whatever part….enjoy the pictures.


Ate breakfast.
Started our journey uphill. Details below


Padre always taking pictures with random people.😂😂

Kevin in the hole again.😂


Drove to Shkodër which is about an 1 hour and 1/2 north of Tirana. This city is the 5th most populous city of Albania.  Our purpose of this trip was to visit the Rozafa Castle.  

Rozafa Castle below….that we climbed to get there.  Remember this was our ‘chill day’ that quickly became our ‘whatever’ day.

so we climbed up to the castle..

The Hills are alive!!








And thoroughly enjoyed it….but then we had to climb back down!!😳

Yup, we climbed back down and then the it happened…

Padre was our driver for the day…yes our goober driver…#1 son was our navigator .the speed limit is 80 over here and Padre made sure he obeyed…returning home (Tirana) we took a detour to avoid traffic delay 😳…you talk about over the river and thru the woods to grandma’s house we go…of course Padre still obeyed the 80 mph down those dirt roads, some rocky roads, some roads so narrow if we met a car, we had to put the car in reverse…keep in mind…we’re going 80 the entire time… we saw a big fat swine…going to fast to take a picture, dogs that goober the driver claims he saw but didn’t hit…if only those dogs knew.😂😂

No worries

….let’s not forget the gps navigator that guided us into a gravel pit and all we could hear from the front seat was “follow that bus”…who was also lost in the gravel pit.  Gps was off duty I guess….No worries, we made it  to our hotel….laughing all the way….then we ate.

Always Rejoice

Stay Tuned

Ms Paula






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