Month: July 2014

  • Unpacking Our Lives

    Today we unpacked. That’s it. End transmission. OK…there was a little more to it. The day started off with some nice dolphin toast… wait, never mind that! Move along… We unpacled a lot today. I can’t say I have photos of it all because we were moving along in a hurry, but I do have some.…

  • Special Delivery

    It’s here! It didn’t fall into the Atlantic and amazingly everything was just the way we packed it when it left the United States. Our container arrived today! As our friend Rachael said, “Getting your container is like Christmas, only better because you already know you like the stuff.” She’s right. It was like Christmas…

  • Say It Right, Broken Flight, And A Little Too Tight

    Today was a bit of a rest day. We had a full day yesterday traveling from Bratislava and we spent the evening cleaning and packing as we made a small move from the place we’ve been staying to another missionaries house just down the road. Our container is scheduled to arrive tomorrow! We believe we…

  • Applying For Visas and Paying for a Ticket in the Middle of the Freeway

    We actually had a great day. Some friends of ours offered to get us a hotel in Bratislava because we had a very early appointment at the Czech embassy and the embassy is about 4 hours from where we live in Czech. So we got great rest last night and the hotel provided breakfast so…

  • Our New Van!

    Today’s blog update is going to be a bit short because I’m sitting in a hotel lobby in Bratislava, Slovakia and it’s 10pm. We have made the almost 4-hour drive down here because tomorrow we will be going to the embassy for our 9am appointment to apply for our Czech visas. Those documents will allow…