Who is she?

She's not a karate kid...



And she is already independent (=sitting)



And yes is my littlle niece already 4 months old...having fun with Chris, in Brasil, one of her three hometowns :).

The ugliest shoes...probably ever

Yep, there is a top "Ugliest shoes ever" and the award (my choice) definetely goes to...THIS:



Imagine someone using his/her brains to create this...gee! Imagine a woman wearing these shoes and going out! Oh dear! Some designers really need a break!

How are u all, after my long pause with this blog? Many interesting things happened during this time...but this pair of shoes beats them all ..by far...hehehehehe!

Rainy days

Uf! rainy days these days (I would say 1 week and a half by now) and too much water for the earth "to drink" at once, so many floodings all over RO. Surprinsingly Tuesday morning I could barely enter in the building I work, the whole courtyard was submerged and the water coverd one's feet. In the afternoon the waters grew even more so the water was 1 meter high. The firemen had to come to help.

I heard that the road from Cluj to Gherla and then Baia MAre was closed due to the floodings. I searched for some news and here is a picture taken Wednsday in Jucu, near Km 17 for those who know the area. See the traffic signs half submerged.



They say it was worse than this in other regions. Poor people! Now it seemes to be better but during the weekend more rainy days are expected.

Forgot to mention that temperatures dropped to 12-13 C. So it's a very good weather and terrain for off-road activities.

La vie en rose...

If "ma vie est rose" I think everybody's can be the same. Here is someone who is totally agree with me on this one:



Laura with one of the dresses we (mom and I) bought for her. Of all I loved this one the most...and I was right! Is she real or simply a doll? :)

LAURA - my niece

She is 1 month old and is the newest member in our family. I've only seens her in pictures so far, hopefully we'll soon meet in person. Here I've stolen some pics from Chris just to show the world that I am the most proud auntie of all:







Although 1 month old she seems to be the younghest fan of Brasil football team:



Anyway it's hard to be a baby:



...especially in daddy's hands:



She is sooo cute, don't you agree? I cannot realize yet that my Bro and Chris are parents ;)!!!

Older pics II

... I stil have a few pictures left.

This is from 2008 - Bro&Crhisr visited Romania (first time for Chris). We went clubbin' in Cluj:



Some of my first drawings...and the final project...unfinished though:






The fifth member of the Ballas', HERA, she is a lovely, smart, loving dog. She can be happy, upset or loving just like a human being (2009):



Giant mushrooms, we went on a Sunday to collect them from the fields around Cluj. My parents-in-law a mushroom lovers and knowers. But this one is giant (my father-in-law here with a white one) - 2010:

Older pics I

Today I finally managed to ask a colleague from work to help me with downloading the pics I took with my mobile phone. Gee! I have pictures from 2 years ago on it...and all this time I couldn't convice myself to get that downloading cable I needed in order to complete the operation.

Now, here are some photos taken during 2008-2009 winter, at Suior, skiing session. My folks were around too:





Some Romanian artist pictures (Diaconescu, I had one with Florin Piersic but lost it) - we've met them in Cluj at different events (2009):



Having dinner at Marty restaurant with some fiends (Marta, Edit, Istvan - the guy is the singer from SEMNAL M band) - this is our 40s gang (2009):





Meeting Santa and cute Rudolf (2009):



Out in the freezing cold of 2009 winter with HERA our dog (2009). Yep that's me! I had 3 overcoats on me and feeling almost confortable and there were -15 degrees Celsius outside - in Faget:





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