Freedoooooooom . . . . Scotland Pictures

Hi! Wow, we have been busy little travelers. We're a bit behind on pictures and blogs and will try to be better. Since we last blogged, we spent a week in Scotland, a week in France, and 4 days in London. We are still in England, staying with some of my (Krista) distant family (my third cousins!). It's been wonderful. They are absolutely great and the sights have been cool too. We even got a day at Wimbledon, which was just amazing and surreal for us. We'll get some France and England pics up here soon, but until then, enjoy the ones from beautiful Scotland. In four days we head to Norway!

Click HERE for a Flickr Photo Album from Scotland

The Beautiful Country of Ireland!

We have now been in Europe for two weeks! We spent our first week in Ireland and our second week in Scotland. At both places we were able to stay with awesome friends - friends we met in Kenya on our short-term medical mission trip with EPI this past January. The hospitality that we experienced was amazing and inspiring. Some of our friends even gave up their master bedroom for us!! We learned a lot about our version of hospitality and realized our own selfishness at times. Our friends in Ireland and Scotland are just amazing!

We just left Scotland today and are now in a little town in France near the beaches of Normandy (we flew into Paris and drove right out). I (Krista) am resurrecting the little French that I once knew :-). We will hopefully have some pics of our time in Scotland up shortly, but until then, check out the beautiful sights we got to see in Ireland. God is such an amazing creator and we are so blessed to be able to enjoy his brilliance.

Click HERE to see our Ireland photo album in Flickr.

We're still figuring out Flickr so if the above link doesn't work, try copying and pasting this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/51235431@N08/sets/72157624284298550/

And if we did something wrong with the album in Flickr, let us know too. We might not continue using Flickr, but for now, we'll give it a go.

A look back . . .

Oh how I've missed you life of plane flights and traveling and calling credit cards to tell them where we will be going and drinking bottled water instead of tap water.....oh wait, scratch that last one. Not this time! I'm pretty sure it's okay to drink the water in Europe!

This is so crazy! We are going to Europe for almost 4 months (we leave tonight, check out our updated calendar for our schedule)!! Who gets to do this kind of thing? We are so unbelievably blessed and are so excited about this opportunity. We are learning so much about God's grace and love and how we don't deserve any of it, but how He lavishes it upon His children.

We were also so incredibly blessed by our last 7 months. Over the past few weeks here in the States, we have had the opportunity to share about the past 6 months in a variety of ways (slideshows, videos, long conversations, etc.). And speaking of video.....we were able to share a little video we made with a couple of churches as we shared what God is doing around the world and in our lives. And since we can't go around to everyone's church (well, unless you want us to come, let us know! :-)), we thought we'd post it up here. So here ya go -- our last six months condensed down to 4 1/2 minutes!