Bad News and yesterday

Uh-oh! I have some bad news. We aren't going to Transylvania today. Some bad news came up for Dylan and he's going to fly back to the US, and Eli wanted to be with him today, so we aren't going. Oh well, I hope we will go another day!

Guess what Dad, Eli, and I did yesterday? We 'took the waters', as some say, meaning we went to the Turkish baths again! It was really fun, we stayed in there for almost three hours. It was too bad that the flea market was closed. So after the baths we went home, and in like a half-hour Dad and I went out to an Operette! It's like a musical play thingy. The story took place in a Hungarian-Romanian-Jewish village in Transylvania. It is about a girl named Roszi (pronounced Rosie) who is poor but wants to get married to the rich farmer's son Andras. But then she finds out that she has no papers, no birth certificate, no certificate of baptism, nothing! So, on the search for papers, someone gets something from an orphanage saying that she is not the daughter of her parents, she was adopted by them and her real parents are the rich Blum and a seduced maid of Israelite religion. So now she is a Jew! Her lover, Andras, hears about it and runs away to the army.

Mrs. Blum, a widow, hears about all this and invites Roszi to come live with her 'own kind', Jews, after she was thrown out of her house. But the other Jews do not accept her, believing she still be a Catholic. Roszi runs away to her best friends inn and decides to work there. Meanwhile, Andras and his friends have deserted the army and have come to the inn, but they are betrayed by another woman. They are hauled off the jail, and the sergeant took Roszi's best friend's father with him for hiding the runaways in his cellar before he got to tell her that their had been a mistake with the papers and she was not a Blum, but a good Catholic daughter. Eventually, the father gets out of jail with Andras, they tell Roszi the news, and Andras and Roszi get married with a happily ever after! And they're not the only ones with a happily-ever-after, Roszi's best friend ran away with a Jewish boy who she liked to America! It really was a great play, even though it was three hours long!

I had a really fun day yesterday, and even though we're not going to Transylvania we will be going somewhere this week! Look for it soon!