Back in Action
Well I am safely back from my European adventures! We left Barcelona at 10:45 am Wed. morning and arrived in El Paso late Wed. night after 24 straight hours of traveling. Normally I cannot sleep in planes, cars, buses, or anything like that, but apparently I can after being up for about 22 hours first!
It was an incredible trip--cruising is a totally different and much more luxurious mode of travel than I am used to, and we saw soooo many wondrous sights, both natural and man-made, that it felt like we had been gone forever by the end of the 2 weeks. If I had to pick a couple favorites though, I'd say Venice, Santorini, and Dubrovnik. I'm working on organizing and captioning my pictures as we speak, so in the near future I'll post a blog with some of my best shots, and then once I integrate some of my traveling companions' pictures (most of the ones of me are on other people's cameras!), I'll post several facebook albums; there is a link on there for sharing with non-facebook users too.
It was a true vacation in the sense that I had no phone or internet, which made it very easy to barely even think about work! I love the mission and all but I have to say it was blissfully relaxing to be completely disconnected! I took yesterday to unpack, grocery shop, and let the jet lag catch up with me (I was dozing off while watching TV at about 8:15 last night), so this morning my can't-sit-still self was ready to get back into the swing of things. My inbox has returned to its normal level, as has my to-do list; topping it off is the Christmas Catalogue I need to have a draft of by Monday! Also coming up before I skip town AGAIN on 11/3 (SE conference in St. Louis) are a church Council meeting, Development Committee meeting, Conversations in Spanish meeting, golf tournament, Reformation service, fall festival, dentist appointment, and taking my cat for a vaccination. He is really not going to like me very much after leaving him, making him get a shot, and then leaving again!
One last thing...I was excited to come home to the news that WE WON THE LCMS WORLD MISSION PHOTO CONTEST!!! THANKS for all your votes--"Ray and William" was the big winner! The picture is going to be on the front page of The Reporter (print version), and the picture + a full article will appear in the online version. We're currently trying to figure out how to best utilize our prize winnings...
Until next time, blessings!
It was an incredible trip--cruising is a totally different and much more luxurious mode of travel than I am used to, and we saw soooo many wondrous sights, both natural and man-made, that it felt like we had been gone forever by the end of the 2 weeks. If I had to pick a couple favorites though, I'd say Venice, Santorini, and Dubrovnik. I'm working on organizing and captioning my pictures as we speak, so in the near future I'll post a blog with some of my best shots, and then once I integrate some of my traveling companions' pictures (most of the ones of me are on other people's cameras!), I'll post several facebook albums; there is a link on there for sharing with non-facebook users too.
It was a true vacation in the sense that I had no phone or internet, which made it very easy to barely even think about work! I love the mission and all but I have to say it was blissfully relaxing to be completely disconnected! I took yesterday to unpack, grocery shop, and let the jet lag catch up with me (I was dozing off while watching TV at about 8:15 last night), so this morning my can't-sit-still self was ready to get back into the swing of things. My inbox has returned to its normal level, as has my to-do list; topping it off is the Christmas Catalogue I need to have a draft of by Monday! Also coming up before I skip town AGAIN on 11/3 (SE conference in St. Louis) are a church Council meeting, Development Committee meeting, Conversations in Spanish meeting, golf tournament, Reformation service, fall festival, dentist appointment, and taking my cat for a vaccination. He is really not going to like me very much after leaving him, making him get a shot, and then leaving again!
One last thing...I was excited to come home to the news that WE WON THE LCMS WORLD MISSION PHOTO CONTEST!!! THANKS for all your votes--"Ray and William" was the big winner! The picture is going to be on the front page of The Reporter (print version), and the picture + a full article will appear in the online version. We're currently trying to figure out how to best utilize our prize winnings...
Until next time, blessings!
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I'm also delighted that you're back in action -- I know YLM must have missed you guys!
Blessings, Carol