We're here!!!

O my gosh, it is so good to be here! We arrived yesterday evening safe and sound. The trip was pretty good even though we had some unexpected baggage fees, we almost missed our flight, and Bailey got horribly motion sick on the long flight from Chicago to London. But all is well now. We spent our first night, and will for the next few nights, separate with three different families in the local church here. They are all very sweet. Today, after we did some laundry, talked about the plans for the summer with our host family, and ate lunch, we took a tram ride to see Bucharest a little bit. After that we went to a prayer meeting with some of the local church members which was a great time to get to know them. After that, Kristen and I, who are staying with one family together were fed a wonderful Romanian meal which was chorba ( a pink, sour vegetable soup),moussaka, and seriously the best ice cream I've had!! The family was very sweet, spoke English very well, and we ended up staying there and talking and laughing for quite some time. They are actually the pastors of the local Bucharest church and were very interesting to talk to.

Tomorrow we are headed to Bulgaria!! We are spending the weekend there with the Nazarene church there in Razgrad, helping them and participating in a big dedication service they are having this weekend for their new church building. We are going to meet a lot of new people as well as spending more time with the friends we've already made. Very excited! Our host, Michael Hudson, is driving us there, then coming home to Bucharest till Sunday so we four girls will be spending a few days there in Bulgaria by on our own without our hosts! Should be fun!!

I need to get to bed. It's 1 a.m. and we have a busy day in front of us. I will be posting pictures up here after I get back next week from Bulgaria. We won't have internet access for a few days so I will update then!!