We are slowly making our rounds visiting various family members. Of course, I am being the good Macedonian wife and always bringing gifts of chocolates and coffee to each family we visit. (Customary practice)

Baba's sister lives in a subsection of the capitol city, Skopje. Maybe a 10 minute drive from their apartment. A lot of gypsies live in this village. No easy way to explain what they term as gypsies and I haven't gotten the nerve to take any photos yet. They are very dark, skinned; much like my husband after being out in the sun all summer (smile). Anyway, her sister has a home that is more "out in the country" per se. They have a yard where they grow peppers, other vegetables and flowers. And the big excitement, for Riley Ivana, was they had rabbits and roosters. Riley had various family members running her back and forth to their cages all evening long. Then she wanted to water all of the flowers. She went through every jar they had filled with water and then asked for them to be refilled. She was in heaven. On the way back to Baba and Dedo's she asked if "we could live on a farm?"