These mountains are freaking HUGE!!!!

As the title suggests we are now in the mountains of Transylvania, the Bucegi Mountains to be exact which are part of the Carpathians. We arrived in a town called Sinaia and ended up staying in a little old lady's house. She spoke not a word of English so we got to practice a bit of our Romanian on her. We have really noticed how much easier this language has been to pick up compared to Ukrainian as it is Latin based rather than Slavic based. She must have been able to understand us too which was a bit exciting as we figured out we did have a hot shower and that we could come and go as we pleased. There was a little more difficulty when she had to go shopping for half a day and had to leave the front door key with her neighbour but we figured it out. It was cool having to go through her kitchen to get to our room and passing her chickens that lived in a box, her dog, cat etc etc..
The town is in a valley with massive mountains looming over it which we decided to catch a cable car up. It was a two cable car trip with the first taking you up to 1400m and the second taking you up to 2000m. Up the top it was sunny but freezing and as we were above the tree line it was very exposed. We wandered around for a couple of hours seeing a shepherd and his flock, some deer and lots of flowers, lichen, spiders and grasshoppers. And of course plenty of jaw dropping views, lots of those.
As we descended on the cable car we realised that we had just had one of the best experiences, the mountain was just so beautiful. The best part was we knew there was more to come.
The next day we visited Peles castle which was another jaw dropper. It is the classic fairytale castle which took 39 years to build (a few months after which the king it was built for died-Doh!) and which we have decided to move into if we come across some ridiculous amount of money.
We then headed to Busteni which is at the base of another cable car up into the mountains. Tomorrow we are going up and are hoping to do a bit of walking, staying at cabanas (mountain hut thingos), and hopefully seeing some wildlife. Our current wildlife count is some frogs, some deer and two squirrels. That isn't counting the hundreds of stray dogs and cats everywhere.
We should have some amazing pics for you guys next time we can add them......
Photos: Peles Castle, Us chilling out on a mountain