We should have done this 3 months ago!!

So, due to a number of reasons, procrastination being the primary, we have just now set up a blog for our current trip that has taken us across the globe. We have done our best to keep in contact through email and have loved hearing back from so many of you! It is fun sharing such an eye opening and forming experience with you all.

Anyway, we will do our best to keep this blog updated every few days and add a picture or two when we can. We also added the mass emails we have sent out over the past couple months if for some reason you stubble onto this and don't have any idea what the heck we are talking about...

Today is our last day in Amsterdam and we have really enjoyed our time here. We are staying with friends(parents of Adam and Allison Buzard) and they have been EXTREMELY hospitable. We even have a sauna in the downstairs apartment they are allowing us to stay in!! The city is really diverse, in fact it just recently became the most diverse city in the world, and we have been able to walk everywhere. The 120 something miles of canals that run through the city are beautiful and we have been able to check out the Van Gogh Museum along with a few others. Because of the diversity, we are able to find any type of food we could have imagined. Yesterday we had falafel's(spelling?) and today we will eat some Chinese fried rice that we picked up at the market.

Because we have had an extended stay here(5 days), we have been able to take it pretty easy and spend plenty of time reading, catching up on email, taking long walks, playing cribbage and having some good conversation. Amazingly we still aren't sick of each other after 3 months straight!! Yesterday we actually downloaded the same Rob Bell teaching onto our Ipods and went for a walk in a local park(which has a Picasso sculpture in the middle of it!) while listening. We followed that by having some coffee and discussing some of the nuggets we were able to take from his talk. Really good for us to do...

We take a 6 hour ferry ride tomorrow to London and are staying with the Prince family, who we got in contact with through some close friends. They recently moved to London from San Francisco and have started a missional church community and non-profit. We are really excited to share and learn from each others experiences.

Hope you each are doing well and having some shaping experiences of your own! We are beginning to miss everyone more every day. Looking forward to being back in a few weeks...Jon and Jan