So since the trip is over, I am thinking that I am probably not going to be posting in this thing any longer.  But since I am leaving m final remarks right now.  I think it is good to say that Sunday the 19th is going to be the day when the teens share what God did in Romania.  So be there.

As the last post for this trip in Romania, I think that i will keep it short and sweet by saying that we are going to miss this place.

Two days left of our Romania trip and we still have so much work to do.  unfortunately, the crew insulating the room had to restart several times, but we never quit.  The attic is looking great and we are looking at a tidier Horizon of Hope.  Tomorrow will be some final clean up, but mostly we will be saying goodbyes and packing.

Our last sunday was filled with teary eyes and happy goodbyes.  The group that went to visit the village for the last time shed enough tears to make up for the ones that stayed back to nap.  After our evening service, we went to our favorite American-ish pizza place where we ate till we we could eat no more.  For a relatively uneventful day, we had one adventure take place.  The tale takes place in a small village in Romania where a young Michael Semon finds himself asleep during the time the vans all depart for the church.  Upon his awakening, he discovers that, not only is he alone, he is locked within the Horizon of Hope building.  When word of his absence reached the group at the church, a search party was sent to retrieve him.  Luckily, we found a shaken Michael making a puppy dog face in the window begging for a rescue.  He found comfort in knowing that his adventure was worthy of making the blog.

At long last everyone finally got to visit Dracula's Castle.  In my own opinion, I thought it was far smaller than I imagined, but it was impressive all the same.  After our tour, the group swarmed throughout the shops and stocked up on souvenirs and also armed their arsenal.   For lunch we experienced a truly cultural meal at Mcdonald's in Brosav.   The fact that their employees understood English raised my standards for the mono-lingual McWorkers back home.  The heat must have been getting to the group, because everyone wanted to get back to Horizon of Hope to relax and enjoy some cheesy potatoes.  As for our day off, It went fairly well by my standards.

After a solid three days of body-slaughtering soccer, we have reached the end of our ministry days in the village.  The goodbyes were hard, but we have a feeling we will be seeing them again.  This evening, we had the opportunity to go to the home of a woman who has been preparing our meals.  It was probably the closest thing to a Garden of Eden.  They had every type of fruit with honey bees and goats.  If you were to look at the house from the outside, you would never imagine that a lush garden was kept inside.  Beyond all that, today was pretty laid back.

You get the pleasure of enjoying two posts today since I missed yesterday.  So to recap yesterday, we pretty much did the same thing as Wednesday except a team of about 8 stayed back to work on some more of the projects around the building.  Surprisingly, we got a comparable amount of work done in contrast to the amount of work with the entire team.  After our standard day and routine, we closed out our evening with a nice time of testimonies, prayer, and worship.  Just recently Charity has been leading the girls in a morning Bible study and the guys have been studying Matthew in their own morning study.  So God is definitely moving all up and about this place.