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

2 comments:

Aubrey and Chris said...

Oh it looks like you are all having a fabulous time. lovs!

hilla said...

I don't think it looks as ugly as you all made it sound. The power grid is a little alarming, the water looks like mine does every morning when we first turn it on, and Alicia's jet lag pic is more frightening than any pics you've posted of romania! muahahahahaha.