Saturday, May 31, 2008

San Francisco

Meet: Daniel and Corrie, board members of Sozo Ministries Africa, and very dear friends that also served in Rwanda 3 years ago. Now they live in San Francisco, we drove down to stay with them.
Being with them makes us realize how much we have missed them these last years!
San Francisco traffic.

The famous Market trains down town San Fran.

Water front with the piers.

We are enjoying ourselves, time is flying for sure!

Funny San Fran story:
Travis and I decided to walk down town, enjoying walking without strollers to push and children's hand to hold. This being our first time in San Fran we used a city map to find our way around. Instead of wondering about safe and unsafe neighborhoods, we just took the shortest road and enjoyed all we saw around.
Sure enough while walking on Eddy we looked around and realized we enjoyed the people around us and were drawn to conversations with them. We stated to each other how we could enjoy living in a city like this, how we enjoyed the street life around us and how the people were fun and different.
It took a while before realizing that we had been the only white people around....
Later we heard that this was the tenderloin district, the area most whites will ignore and walk around..... the area where we felt at home... hmmm... what's up with that!

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Photo Update on our R & R in Europe and States

Zoey's 7th Birthday, celebrated at Red Robin with friends and the Red Robin staff singing to her!


Fun at the park.


At our condo in Lincoln City, at the Oregon coast, Pacific Ocean.

I think my kids have not been this clean in years! As the chemicals in the hot tub removed all the (possibly) remaining dirt from 3 years in Rwanda!

At the Oregon Zoo with Joel and Ali. (Dear friends in Rwanda... they are back together!)


Roasting marsh mellows with friends.

With uncle Chad (Travis's brother) and his dog, catching bubbles.

Lots of fun at our friends, Curtis and Barbara's house.

Reuniting of old friends. Girls with Rachael and Kelsi.

Going shopping at TARGET... Woohoo!

Mount Hood, beautiful view from down town Gresham.

Our time in the Netherlands:There is nothing like celebrating our national Dutch holiday called Queens day in the Netherlands.

At the North Sea, the Western coast line of the Netherlands.

Keukenhof; enjoying thousands of bright colored tulips and roses.

Day at an Amusement park with our friends Ruben & Christine.

And of course a day in Amsterdam.