Saturday, July 4, 2009

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

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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