A Quick Hello

Hey everyone! I have been in Costa Rica for... well, I don't know exactly - what day is it? - maybe about 3 weeks. I spent the first two weeks with the Lynda Godwin Road Warriors youth service project (the same one I went on two years ago to Costa Rica and that Rachel went with last summer to Uganda) in Progresso, Costa Rica at the Ighani's farm. We successfully installed 25 solar panels to 25 homes - meaning that we gave light to 25 families where they had never had light previously - it was absolutely great. We did have some interesting adventures in the process, however. I hope that I will have a chance to go into it in a little more detail sometime but this needs to be a quick posting so I'm just going to continue. I am now in San Jose with Ann and Parviz but tomorrow we head down to Panama City to fly to Colombia for our training seminar. We will be there for about three weeks. Hopefully I'll get another chance to write soon! bye!

A New Beginning - but first:

Hey everyone! It's been a long time since my last blog - what can I say, I've been really busy (and I've loved it!). First as we all know I went to visit Nathan in Israel with my immediate family. It was an amazing three weeks that I'll never forget. There are tons of pictures on facebook that I'm sure most of you have already seen so I don't need to post a lot of them here... just a few of my favorites.


We spent our first two weeks seeing the sites of Haifa and Akka, where we saw some beautiful places, ate some amazing food and spent time with wonderful people.




Then we toured Israel where we had some more amazing experiences: camel riding, ruins sitings, and dead sea swimming (or, more accurately, floating).







Then we were back in Huntsville preparing for a family reunion! It was great seeing everyone again. We had a great weekend together. Here are some pictures from that: the easier to come accross family portrait and the much harder to get picture with everyone (except Nathan, obviously, and Uncle Dave, who is taking the picture)!















And tomorrow I begin one more exciting adventure: my year of service in Costa Rica. I'm not completely sure how often I'll be able to access the internet but I'm going to try to keep in touch with everyone. Hasta luego!