Mountain Tops and Bran Castle

The team saw many beautiful sights while driving on the Transfagarasan, which is the highest road in Romania. It was sunny and beautiful, it rained, it hailed, but most of all it was an experience of God's handiwork. The following day they took a tour of the Bran Castle. This is such an interesting historical sight. The grand finale after lunch was papanache. This is a fried dough, similar to a doughnut covered in a sweet sour cream sauce and fruit preserves. The close-up photo of panache is served without the cream sauce. However, the apricot preserves were excellent as the sole accompaniment! 

Fun Day with the Youth from Bethel

On Friday we took a beautiful drive out to a wonderful farm retreat and spent the day visiting, playing, eating, and singing! We celebrated one of our team members birthdays - Emily. We also almost go to pet some cows that walked past our car as we were attempting to drive down the road! We love Romania!

Notice the crate of fresh cherries! The trees are loaded with them.

There was lots of volleyball!

Fun talking with these young ladies!

We are glad someone was there to play the Cajon!

Emily's birthday cake! Beautiful and delicious!

Emily is surprised by her cake and having happy birthday sung to her in Romanian as well as English!

After the picnic we went over to Pastor Cristi and Alina's house and had some pizza and fun conversation! What a blessing for them to have their home completed.

BBQ with the Young Adults

Great weather, great friends, great food, great fun! We had an incredible time on Saturday with the youth from Bethel Baptist. We had a beautiful country setting for our BBQ. This gave our team lots of time to visit and get to know more of the young adults from Bethel. Enjoy the pictures!

Great Group! Fun Day!

Fun Times

A Universal Language

Sunglasses!

Making Coleslaw

Delicious Meal!

Friends

Stephanie Giving Lessons

Group Singing

Ninja

Last Supper and Last Gelato

We are now back in the United States and very glad to see familiar faces and signs.  We traveled a long way, it took a long time, and it was very well worth it!  We will post a few more videos from the trip in the next few days.

But for now, here are two pictures of two of our “lasts”.  Our last supper at Pastor John’s house (Marianna, his wife is an exceptional cook) and our last Gelato in the city park with some Romanian friends.  The hospitality of the Romanian people is very heart warming.