The mystery has been solved!! My friend, travel buddy and partner in crime R. sent me a package.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Got it!"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Got it!" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525384907/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6525384907_857787ec03.jpg" alt="Got it!" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

A special thanks to everyone on twitter who helped me figure out where in Mladost 1A I was supposed to go to retrieve my package. I might still be wandering around greater-Mladost 1A looking for the post office if it weren't for the maps and links to the Bulgarian postal system post office codes.

Here are some photos of Mladost 1A today:

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Block 511 in Mladost"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Block 511 in Mladost" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525381823/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6525381823_268b603cf6.jpg" alt="Block 511 in Mladost" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Clouds and blocks in Mladost 1A"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Clouds and blocks in Mladost 1A" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525382347/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6525382347_15c7751990.jpg" alt="Clouds and blocks in Mladost 1A" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

Turns out my post office is #1729 in Mladost 1A, Block #555. Oh. I live in block five-hundred-and-forty-something but interestingly it's no where close to block #555. Pretty clearly, I am never going to figure out this numbering system.

While I was wandering through the blocks in search of the post office, I did wonder: where is block 1 in Mladost 1A? And why are the streets in Mladost 1A named on both google and bgmaps but not in real life?

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Block 520 in Mladost 1A"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Block 520 in Mladost 1A" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525383591/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6525383591_4655c6651f.jpg" alt="Block 520 in Mladost 1A" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Blocks in Mladost 1A"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Blocks in Mladost 1A" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525384099/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6525384099_f10db40342.jpg" alt="Blocks in Mladost 1A" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

I also wondered: who spray-paints block numbers on buildings and why they can't be a little neater about things? About this point I thought: I am lost.

But, there it was. Block #555 and the post office. This is hands down the nicest post office I've ever been in Bulgaria.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The post office in Mladsot 1A Block 555"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="The post office in Mladsot 1A Block 555" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525382947/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6525382947_ccc6191e69.jpg" alt="The post office in Mladsot 1A Block 555" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

Things at the post office were uneventful. I handed over my slip. She looked for my package for a little bit even though there only seemed to about 10 to choose from. She found it, asked for my identity card, I handed it over, signed for the package and that was that.

Easy-peasy. Well once you know <em>where</em> exactly you're supposed to go.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Mladost 1A: a grandfather with granddaughter"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Mladost 1A" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525384519/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6525384519_dd8b8e93d1.jpg" alt="Mladost 1A" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

I walked home with the package tucked under my arm.

This time, I was preoccupied with the question: how did I get so lucky to have such great friends?! I mean, I have the <em>best</em> friends. I am incredibly happy and grateful to have them in my life.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="My second package in two days"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="My second package in two days" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525385327/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6525385327_3bd1ecd792.jpg" alt="My second package in two days" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

On my way home, I decided that I'd open this one after deciding not to open the one my parents sent me until Christmas. That was until I got it home opened it to find it wrapped. Beautifully wrapped in fact. So I read the card instead. Then I decided to save it until Christmas as well.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A Christmas note!"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="A Christmas note!" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525385799/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6525385799_9df2ae7987.jpg" alt="A Christmas note!" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

Because really, did you read what she wrote? How could I not wait?!

I couldn't stop laughing after reading the card. Bulgaria's most famous English language blogger<em>. </em>Enter: laughter and head shaking. Don't worry R. I'll eat some banitsa for you--at least until you can eat some of your own.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Another package, this one beautifully wrapped from R."]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Another package" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525386401/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6525386401_a8a1ded48e.jpg" alt="Another package" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]