THE ROBERTS IN ROMANIA

We had the opportunity to travel to Bucharest, Romania to do an audit of a Regional Seminaries and Institute Director.  When we arrived on a Monday afternoon he suggested we go to his office and start the audit, finish it up on Tuesday and then Wednesday would be free for him to show us Romania.  We were thrilled.  The chapel in Bucharest is beautiful...

The government required a bomb shelter to be built under the chapel, which gives them an awesome room for activities for the youth and YSA's.

We put on our "YSA Hats" and attended a Family Home Evening and so enjoyed this small group of wonderful Young Adults and their adviser couple.
Tuesday we finished the audit in time to take the English tour of the Peoples' Palace, the 2nd largest building in the world.

This is view up the boulevard from the balcony of the Palace

On our tour of Romania we drove for 3 hours to Transylvania to see Bran's Castle (known as Dracula's Castle)

It was a simply decorated castle build in the 14th century.

I loved the courtyard!

The drive through the villages and forests of Romania was beautiful.  Then we visited one of the most beautiful castles in Europe: Peles!

This castle was built between 1875 and 1883 with 160 rooms! 

As you can see the most beautiful part was the woodwork--amazing!

 

The setting was gorgeous!

Although the countryside was gorgeous, the city of Bucharest

was full of once beautiful but now shabby and run-down buildings.  

This picture says it all!  Never thought we'd have the chance 

to see Romania...are grateful we did!!!