Hooray for functioning computers!

So a big thanks to Mickey who fixed the 'ole computer for us!!! It's up and running like new. Europe was a fabulous trip...we took a little over 2000 pictures on the digital and about 30 rolls of film. So on with the show!



The Eiffel Tower was amazing. We climbed the stairs up to the 2nd level...almost 700 stairs! Then we took the elevator all the way to the top. We had dinner that night at a little cafe near the tower and then went back so we could see it at night time. It was amazing at night time. Every hour on the hour it does a neat light show.



Notre Dame was awesome. We got to go up the towers to see the Gargoyles and everything.




The ruins in Rome were really fascinating. It was so neat to think of all the history that happened there. Just think, this is where Paul came to talk to Caesar!



The Collesium was neat to see. We didn't actually go in it, but it was neat to see from the outside.

Words..

I never can think up a good title for new posts :)





So I'll probably get some pictures up next week. The computer is going to get worked on this weekend. I don't know what happened to it while we were gone, but it got screwed up good. So our friend, Mickey, is going to clear the hard drive and start over from scratch. We went and got an external hard drive today so we could save all our important stuff...




Here's a picture from the Sunday after we got back. I did the Lincoln Half Marathon. No great finishing time or anything, but I did beat last year's time by a little bit. There was a small group of people from Heartlands who ran...Ave did the full marathon (his first one...good job, Ave!) Doug did the half and got done well before me, not that that's much of a surprise or anything :) It was a perfect day for running. It started out in the upper 40's and not a cloud in the sky. By finishing time it was about 60 and just gorgeous. My knees didn't give me any trouble which was awesome...I credit that to the fact that I was praying almost the whole time that God would let my knees hold out :) I was worried since I didn't run at all in Europe and I haven't exactly been Mr. Discipline with my running as of late anyways.

On a side note, I'm updating this in the middle of the day because I stayed home from job #1 sick today. I haven't felt 100% this week, and this morning I got up and started throwing up. I feel well enough to go to job #2 tonight, so that's good...

Home Sweet Home

So we're back home now. Vacation was absolutely glorious. I think our favorite city was Barcelona. They had such a great mix of cool shops, little restaurants, great weather, and it was very pedestrian friendly.

We were blessed with safety and overall good health...we each had brief moments of feeling like poo, but all in all we were fine.

I'll put some pictures on here before too long, hopefully. Our computer's being stupid for some reason, now that we're home. So I'm updating this on Stan and Mel's computer. Whenever we get everything up and running on our computer I'll put on some pictures and what not.

Ahh Spring

I love spring.  It's in a tie with fall as my favorite season of the year.  I love to watch the changing of the seasons...to see God's hand at work, turning the grass green, watching the tulips pop up through the ground.  Joyful and I got out and did some yard work today, trying to get some stuff done before we head to Europe on Thursday.  It's not very often that I actually enjoy mowing the yard...that first time or two in the spring is always nice, because that means that winter is officially over.  Baseball season has started (the Cubs are already sucking it up), it was almost 70 degrees today, and the Huskers are in the midst of Spring Football...gotta love this time of year.

 

Chances are good this will be my last post for a while, seeing as how Joyful and I leave for Europe in 5 days!!!  Huge amounts of thanks go to Nic and the rest of the Moores for watching the pets and the house for us.  It's nice to know that our big, ferocious beast of a dog will have company while we're gone...they always do a great job.  If they have parties, they clean up really good so we don't know, and there's usually pizza or some other kind of food in the fridge when we get home :)

 

Have a glorious rest of April...I know we will.