Eastern Europe Set 2

When Romania had a king, this was his palace

Trev, Shan and Lallie in front of the King's Palace

Grandma in front of the same palace

The front of Dracula's castle

More of the front of Dracula's castle

And still a bit more of the front of the castle

Here was are at the entrance to Dracula's castle

Shan, Lallie and Trev are entering Dracula's castle

Why don't you come on in with me?

The castle is filled with many hidden stairways

Alicia found some of the hidden stairways challenging

I found the hidden stairways very dark

And very eeeeerie!!!

Here is a look down into the courtyard of Dracula's castle

Grams doesn't look too scared wandering down there all

by herself

Mom and the girls made it to the top of the castle

The view from the top is pretty spectacular

Another view from the top of Dracula's castle

Course, all that climbing tends to get kind of tiresome

We did, of course, take the opportunity to attend Church

The young adults (and Sister Cocha, the pretty 81-year-old

young lady between Elder Eyre and Grams) had a little going

away party for Elder Eyre on Sunday evening

Elder Eyre was a little bit sad about having to leave Romania

(in case you can't tell, that's Trev's sad face)

A little roadside example of the modern gypsy transportation

Cows walking down the streets of the village - -

hmmm, reminds me of Minersville when I was a kid

Eastern Europe - Set 1

Welcome to Romania - Main Square of Bucharest

The Romanian National Capital Building

Part of downtown Bucharest

Becky was a little bit concerned about the water . . .

This is the reason we came - to get Elder Eyre (and we got him!!!)

Elder Eyre and the returning group of missionaries

(The young lady is their Romanian instructor from the MTC,
she was back in Romania visiting during the time they were leaving)

We spent a fair bit of time touring around Bucharest (we'll have a

block of pics a bit later) . . . But we also got a chance to take a

quick "P-day" trip down to the Black Sea

And the Black Sea really is black in some places

(this dog was white when he first went swimming)

Obviously, we didn't go swimming in it . . .

(Actually the Black Sea was quite beautiful - just don't have a lot of

shots to show you. We did walk in the sand for a few moments, but

mostly just enjoyed the good food and great atmosphere)

(In case you are wondering, the great cuisine you are viewing in the

picture is pig guts)

Jet lag is a bugger, isn't it???

How's this for an interesting downtown power grid?

Visiting some members in Ploesti

(This is Pino and Violetta - Pino is a Romanian author and . . .

although she doesn't publish them, Violetta tells some amazing

stories)

The bus driver is ready . . . This was our transportation around

Romania, a mini tourbus. Later, we'll show you some pics of our

trip to Dracula's castle and across Transilvania

A little roadside stop on our way through the Romanian

mountains to Brasov

Some of the interesting architecture in Romania . . . we'll definitely

have some more pics of this a little later on

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