There's not much to say this week because we didn't do much except for Thursday night.On Thursday we went to a traditional Bulgarian restaurant.I guess traditional restaurants are usually touristy, but not this one. Diana and Iliyana, Ivan's wife and sister, had to read the menu to Dale and I because it was completely in Bulgarian.We weren't there long before the ban started warming up and the xoro, pronounced horo, line started up.Everyone holds hands and does traditional dancing in a circle.Some of the dancers were quite professional, and I actually recognized a guy from the restaurant a couple days later on TV.After a couple beers Dale and I were ready to start dancing.Unfortunately the girls didn't give me a heads up and I was wearing flip flops.Dale picked it up pretty quickly.It took me a little longer to pick up, maybe it was the rakia or my whiteness.The xoro is proof white people can dance.After all the food and beer and rakia the bill was still only 18 lev (about $13), well worth the price for an authentic night in Sofia.

On Saturday we decided to go to the Nevski Church since it was closed the first time we went.It was impressive, but one of the newer structures we had seen during our travels.It was nice but not near the scale of the Hagia Sofia and about 1,300 years later.I guess the saying holds true "they don't build things like they used to".