The next two days were not exciting...I packed and got ready to leave for my 10 day trip around Europe. In conclusion to this blog I would like to end with my favorite quote:
"No individual has the right to go into this world or go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it." - George Washington Carver
I hope I did in Romania.
Final hospital goodbyes!
Tattoo fun...
The twins...
MIhait! Fun with stickers...
7th Floor Apartment
Our little Costy...
Viorel...so cute...
For our final goodbye with the apartments we had a dance party!
Mirel and I...
3rd Floor Apartment and Our Kiddos
A picture with some of our workers...
My Final Goodbye to Andrei...
This is how Andrei decided to pose for our final picture together...haha...my little monkey.
Last day with Andrei...
Right after I said goodbye to Andrei...these were the gifts I left with him.
The Branch!
Around the Orphanage!
Alex's Birthday party!
Andrei, Cristi and Andrea...my little orphan angels...
Sitting outside with Maria in my lap and the other girls and their kiddos...
Alex swimming on his back...
The Light of my LIFE! My ANDREI!
tickle...tickle...
Classic Andrei pose...such a little stinker...
Can't Get Enough of the Babes in the Hospital!
A little bit of heaven...
The most gorgeous eyelashes you've ever seen...
I'm in love...
This is the little baby that would copy my laugh every time I laughed... such a cutie!
The Black Sea Adventure
I'm pretty sure this is the best picture we took on the trip...
Mindy and I...
Whitney S. and I laying out...
The GANG!
Burying Kenz...
Elyse carrying the umbrella on the way to the beach...
Right before the banana boat ride!
Putting our gear on for the Banana Boat ride!
No turning back...
We are off...
Burying Mindy...
Hospital Fun!
Mihai! Our little angel.
Yes there is some pink in my hair...
The poor thing did not feel well at all.
Kristi! One of our kids at the orphanage with cerebral palsy. He had to go to the hospital for some treatments.
Andreiseni...A Little Bit of Heaven on Earth
Time for bed!
Sleeping under the stars...
We love horses oh yes we do!
Our little cup of honey to eat from the bee man.
MacKenzie's belly after our fifth feeding...we all felt that way...
Any more food anyone?
The old man who sat across from us at the ceremony...he was adorable.
Flowers we were given by one of the families.
We're about to be fed...again...
All the houses have grapevines that line the ceiling when you go to enter their homes...
The librarian who kept giving us gifts!
I caught a baby duck! I was so excited!
The family that grows vegetables in the town.
The beauty of the lake...
The bee man!
One of the houses we dropped by. We were warmly welcomed.
Andrei and his foster mom.
The Monasteries...
Our professor Dave came for a visit. We tried to pick him up for a cool picture. It didn't work.
The beauty...
GORGEOUS
A reservation we stopped by...I shared my apple with a baby deer.
Mario our Romanian Liason. She is great!
Annie's 20th Birthday!
Under the pavillion...
Annie holding the necklace I got her from Krakow...
The most disturbing display of dead goats in the park we have ever seen...it was sick...only in Romania.
GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN
Our jumping picture...good times...
Whitney S. and I hit legs while we were jumping...
The pyramid...
Reenacting Annie's Drawing!
I was trying to make sure their poses were just right...
This was the black and white picture we took in order to reenact the drawing Annie drew...
Color version....
Our Birthday Girl!
Whitney S.
An amazing pic of Mindy...haha...I love it!
JULY 4th! I'm PROUD to be an AMERICAN!
The gang...
My roomies...we're all dressed in red, white and blue!
Picnic time...
Balloon Toss!
I just got a piece of ice down Annie's pants...haha...poor thing...
MacKenzie just got ice down my pants...
Water fun...good times..
This is the face of Elder Armstrong who just had a bag of ice water thrown on him...
Good times at the Hospital!
I put a fake tatoo on Marius...
We couldn't get her bed side to go down all the way - so I jumped in and played with Alexandra - she recently had another surgery...
Auschwitz and the Holocaust...
Entrance to Auschwitz...we didn't take pics inside out of respect for those who died...
Birkenau...a few miles away from Auschwitz...
Housing...if you could call it that...
Drawing done by children in one of the blocks...
Each block had line after line of this type of bedding...each slot fit four to five people to a bed...
The restrooms in each block...
Pond memorial where the ashes were put after the bodies were burned...
Rubble of the crematorium that was blown up by the Nazis to cover up any evidence of their wrong doings...
Krakow, Poland
We had fun building a pyramid in the courtyard of the Wawel Castle...
Medieval Square!
Our sillly side...
We kept getting lost...but we always found our way!
Feeding the birds in Medieval Square...
My blue bike with a horn! I love that little horn...
Can't tell it's a rental bike huh?....
A little rest from bike riding!
We decided to rent bikes for a few hours and ride around Poland...so fun...
We love our ice cream soo...
Running around...
The girls...
A giant head in Medieval Square...
Whitney Scott decided we each needed an individual photo shoot along the Wawel Castle wall...
My FAVORITE CITY! BUDAPEST...
Yes this picture is real...
So gorgeous it takes your breath away...
Parliament Building! GORGEOUS!
We love chocolate crepes oh yes we do!
Monument to Hungarian Jews that died in the Holocaust...
Ironically I ran into Truman Hunt (CEO of Nu Skin) and Scott Schwerdt (President of Americas and Europe at Nu Skin) when I went to church in Budapest...For those of you who don't know I worked at Nu Skin for over a year, and I was treated very well by the company....What a small world.
Shopping on the bridge...sooooo fun!
On our way home...wornout and sunburned...
The most gorgeous waterfall ever...outside the castle...
The city I love!
Heros' circle...
The castle...
Try saying this word five times fast...haha...
Good ol' sleeper trains...
Largest Jewish synagogue in Europe...
We're soo crazy...
Even on vacation church is a good thing to attend...
SCABIES!!!!!!!!
The night we found out we had scabies we had to take a shower, put the ointment on, then sleep in our outfit that we were wearing the next day...then we had to do it all over again the next day...DANG SCABIES...
Annie and I had fun being dramatic in this picture...
Cream to the rescue!
The Hospital...
Marion....can you say adorable!
Marius giving me a kiss on the cheek after a rough game of arm wrestling...
My Orange Hair...
I was feeling a bit nervous...if only I knew what the outcome was going to be...
This was my hair right after I dyed it...it has now faded (thank goodness) back to a golden blonde...yes - everyone have a good laugh...P.S. Mom I need you to set me up a hair appointment for the day I get home...thank you.
Marion's Funeral...
Picnic with the Priest and Mayor
I felt like I was in a fairy tale!
The priest...
The mayor (left) and a friend (right)...
Oh my Claudio!
My Claudio laughing!
Kenz and I at the hospital...
Dinner with the Moldova Boys
The Hospital
Florine our little trickster...
Alexandra...so adorable! She has been in the hospital for months. She has had several surgeries on her feet.
The gang on the 6th floor...
Claudio...the lost little boy on the 7th floor...
Our little Marion from the orphanage...he needs a kidney transplant desperately or he won't make it...
The lovely hospital floors...
Melissa's Birthday!
This is my favorite pic of Melissa...haha...
Picnic Time!
After a long game of Ultimate Frisbee...
Elyse and Mindy...oh the joy.
My friend Sera and I.
I hand sewed this skirt and wore it to church! I was soooo proud of myself!
Annie made a skirt too...we had to take a pic...
Night on the town....
Mamma Mia Steak House
A bunch of people were handing out flowers in an effort to get final votes for some politician...we didn't vote, but we did have fun with the flowers!
The Hospital...continued
Poor thing had the worst fever...
Alexandra and Roxanna...two sisters...so full of energy and love!
Samson...this little boy cries all day for his mom...
Florine our little flirt...he went back home Friday...he will be dearly missed!
My Little Orphan Kids!
MY ANDREI!
Valentina my little vampire...
Maria...she is always full of surprises!
Iulia...
Constantine...
Irina...
Church
Church and our fellow Relief Society Members!
My Roomies!
SCARY!
This is written all over in our apartment building...guys aren't real respectful of women here.
More Babies!
We found more babies without moms to love...they were hiding from us on a floor we never go to...
He kept falling asleep while I was feeding him...
Annie was blowing on the babies neck...there is NO air conditioning in the hospital and they bundle the kids up. Everytime we pick them up they are drenched in sweat...poor things!
DINNER at Sister Geneviva's House
We had no idea what we had in store for us...haha...
I wasn't feeling so good...
Whoops..Sister Geneviva dropped beans all down Melissa's shirt..
The Girls!
Slumber party after a long and very hard week...
Alex and I...my little blue eyed friend...
THE HOSPITAL
The hospital...it's more scary inside.
My sweetheart...the poor thing is a boy, and they dressed him in pink.
Poor thing...everytime he coughs her entire face turns purple.
Our little Octavian!
MacKenzie tried asking the nurse this orphans name and they said "he's an orphan he doesn't have one..." We decided this was too sad so we named him Octavian.
This baby was a newborn orphan. So tiny...The poor thing is having heart surgery soon...
I was blowing on her stomach...she got a kick out of it!
Our little angel...except we call her grumpy because sometimes she doesn't like to smile - but when she does she lights up the room!
Florine and I...he's such a little ladies man!
Countryside of Romania
City of Brashov
Brashov
Mindy and I in the town square of Brashov!
At the Hostel!
Mindy got the bottom bunk, and I got the top...so fun!
The ENTIRE gang at the hostel...
We love each other!
Peles Castle
Can you say GORGEOUS?
I look like I'm in pain...
Dracula's Castle
Part of the gang!
Vlad the Impaler's Castle
The Cemetery and the Old Man
The old man...
The PIATA...it's like an underground market place where everyone brings their fresh fruit and vegetables to sell...it's our favorite place to go so far.
THE CITY OF IASI
View Outside Our Window...
Although you don't see a lot of grass in the city...you can tell it's very green here...I can't wait to see the country side!!
These are the apartments in Iasi...buildings like these cover the city...
A gypsy girl came up and asked us for a banana for her baby brother...we gave one to her - but you have to be careful because more will come and beg you for food.
A gypsy family...you see them walking around sometimes...however, they are discriminated against by the Romanians greatly.
Us girls needed some CHOCOLATE...gogosi is amazing here...it's like an inverted donut. We can't eat too much of these though or we are going to come back weighing a thousand pounds.
Cultural Palace continued...
The Cultural Palace...just down the street from where we live...absolutely gorgeous!
The city wasn't designed to have parking spots...so cars park everywhere...including the sidewalks. The drivers are a little crazy. They don't really follow the the driving laws - then again maybe they don't have any?
The rain loves us!
Embrace the RAIN!
Water in my shoe after the first Sunday...nice...
The Last GIRLS' Night!
Aunt Courtney and me....isn't she simply radiant!
My Mom and Aunt Ariane...but she's like my sister...
The COUNTDOWN begins...
My Attempt to Pack...
I think I need to reorganize...or cut back on the amount of clothes I'm taking...
Such a homemaker...these scrubs will be my best friend in Romania!
Toys for the children!
5 comments:
Good Job, Whitney!! there should be more ppl like you in this world..
I just wanted to say I've been reading your blog for awhile and I've enjoyed it so much!! My family and I are missionaries here in Romania (we live just north of Brasov). I'm not LDS I'm baptist but nevertheless I've been really encouraged by this blog, your love for these kids, its amazing. I've loved reading all of your stories lol as I've been able to relate to a lot of the same things hehe. Its so good to see someone who love and cares enough about these kids to show & tell them about how much Jesus loves them. ♥ I'm sure you have left a huge impact on their lives!! Anyhow :) so I guess I'm a bit long winded tonight lol, I suppose I just wanted to say God bless and thank you for caring about romania.
love in christ
arielle
PS my families website is romania.opbbc.org if you ever want to check it out :)
Thanks for your comments I really appreciate them...I'm going to miss Romania and the kids I have grown to love so much. Good luck with everything!
I have no idea how i stumbled onto your blog, but i do have to say that by the looks of your pictures to Romania, you have a heart of gold. It also shows in your smile
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