Today we drove to a town that has a famous church that we were going to see before checking into our hotel.  It was raining, but the 179 steps up to the church were covered, sort of like a covered bridge.  We got,up,there only to find out the church was closed!  So,we hiked back down.  All 179 steps.  Our hotel was an old place in the town with lots of old buildings built around a town square.  It rained all day on our drive and this has cooled everything off.  We wandered around the town, hitting some of the shops, rested up and then went to a restaurant in the house where Vlad the Impaler was born.  Vlad and his father were known as Devils and in the Romanian language that word devil sounds like Dracula…and that is where Bram Stoker got his inspiration for Dracula.  Vlad had been sent off to a type of prison as a child and endured travesties there.  So,when he became an adult and had power, he impaled his victims…but he was not a vampire and didn’t drink blood.  Romania really isn’t known for vampires at all.  Bram Stoker just had a fertile imagination…and the Dracula he wrote has never gone out of print.  The next morning after breakfast, the group hiked back up to see the church that was closed yesterday…and it was closed again today.  So,after the hike back down, we went to the clock tower and climbed up it for the view.  That’s it for today…