Jet lag and other joys of relocating

It's been a week, both literally and figuratively.
We've been in Viștea de Jos for a week now (although it feels much longer), and we've managed to exhaust ourselves.
The exhaustion is due to a number of factors, jet lag being one of them. Anyone who's traveled across multiple time zones is familiar with the disorienting sensation of waking up and wondering not only where you are, but when.
In order to acclimate, it's important to push through, to force the body to adjust to the new time zone, which means no naps. no sleeping in, no late-night Netflix binging, but in the meantime, your stomach will growl while you sleep, at 2 pm you'll have the sudden urge to get in your pajamas and start flossing your teeth, you'll rudely text friends at 1:30 am their time.
Most travelers also exhaust themselves from trying to optimize every moment of their precious vacation (6 cities in 4 days and that sort of thing) but our exhaustion is far more banal, it's just due to how many shopping trips we've crammed into this week. With only one exception, every single day since we arrived, we've taken a trip to one city or another in order to shop.
Stuff (and lots of it) is coming, but not until the second half of May when our container arrives in Constanța. In the meantime, we need lamps. The current lighting situation in this house is a case of either or—it's either pitch black or lit up like a dentist's office. While you'd be all set for a molar extraction, there's nothing to read by, nothing to create warm shadows and depth, the sort of ambiance that eases the sterility of a new house and makes it a home.
So lamp shopping we've gone, but lamp shopping is not the sort of material for a blog which is my way of saying that I've hardly got anything to write about.
We've had some nights of snow in the mountains (which has made me very aware that I didn't pack sufficiently warm enough), and picked up Silviu for a visit. Silviu doesn't walk as well as he used to and that's giving us the chance to slow down and settle a bit.
Warmer weather is in the forecast so we plan to stop shopping and start prepping some garden beds for seeds and spending more time outside.
In the meantime, here are a few photos from our drives to the grocery store and the Kingdom Hall, as well as some photos of Mihai and Silviu enjoying father/son time.