We're In Romania!

We made it to Romania! We left from the Grand Rapids airport on Sunday afternoon, and were sent off by some family and a few of our closest friends. It was a great sendoff and we were so glad they came to support us. Our kids Sam, Lexi, & Precious were there too, it was so great to see them. Everyone laid hands on us and prayed for our journey and then we went through security, with Sam following saying he wanted to come with us. Awww! We'll dearly miss everyone but knowing that they're so supportive is a big help.

Lexi offering her drink to Mark before we left. All of our flights went really well, were on time, and all of our luggage made it here! Thanks for the prayers, we heard that we may be the first ones to fly over on British Air and get all of our luggage right away.

Today we went to see our apartment so we can figure out what we need to buy for it. This is us in the elevator. We are on the 8th floor.

This is the living room, Mariana and Corny were at the apartment cleaning it out.

Jen brought us there and Linuta was also there. Beyond the window there is a balcony that goes along the entire length of the apartment.

This is the spare bedroom which we will probably use as an office. The bed is actually a pull out so people can come and stay with us (hint, hint).

This is our bedroom, pretty good size and lots of storage.

The kitchen is small and very retro, the stove is also very small but we'll have to adapt to it.

The rest of the kitchen with the dining table.

And finally the bathroom, can you count how many shades of blue there are in here? All in all the apartment is pretty nice, there is lots of storage space too. Next step is to buy all the stuff we need, mostly kitchen furnishings. We'll run to IKEA sometime this week to get that.

So far we are doing pretty well on energy, jet lag doesn't even seem that bad. Continued prayers for energy would be appreciated. Everything is different as we expected, so we have lots of learning to do. We won't start our language classes until late September so we'll have a couple weeks to figure out how to get around and buy things here. We'll keep the blog updated as often as we can, especially at the beginning there will be so many new things to talk about!