Deciding to brave the streets of Albania the first full day of having their car, they invited us to go with them to the top of Mt. Dajti via Telefreiku, or cable car. A couple years ago, the Albanians purchased the Telefreiku from the Austrians. From what we heard, we were told to go sooner rather than later since the Albanians don't do upkeep as well as the Austrians :)
We had a great trip up, and at the top there were restaurants and horse back riding and four wheeling. Now when I say horse back riding and four wheeling, you are probably imagining beautiful trails to explore and see the views of Tirana. Well, you would be imagining wrong, haha. There was basically an open field about the size of half a football field where you would ride the horse. And the four wheeling? Up and down the sidewalk when you and you children walked to see some of the sites....yeah, and they weren't going very slow either! Albania is all about safety :)
Oh! And I can't forget to mention the dog, I mean dogs :) We had walked up a path to what we thought was a old hotel turned museum. there was a hill right before it with a pathway leading up. Unfortunately, the path was closed off, and it wasn't anything we could go into. As we were deciding what to do next a dog appeared up on the little hill. I said something like, "Aww, the dog is protecting the house." Then another dog popped up, and I said, "Look another one!" And then about three or four more dogs appeared, and we are all like..."oh crap", as we turned around and booked it quickly back down the path :) haha. Unfortunately, I didn't think to take pictures of these parts. But we did get some pictures overlooking Tirana, though it was kinda a hazy day.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun, and Asher slept all the way down to the bottom and all the way home, so that was nice!
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