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Ciao!!

We are a bit behind in the blogging. Internet hasn't been real easy to track down for a decent price since we left our friends place in London over a week ago.

In the past few days we have been able to go to Lisbon, Gibralter(U.K. territory), Barcelona and St. Tropez(France). Today we are in Florence, Italy and the sun just peeked out from behind the clouds a few minutes ago. It is really beautiful here and we are doing our best to run around the city as fast as we can with only one day to do it!

We are getting a bit tuckered out of traveling at this point. Don't get us wrong...We are REALLY grateful to still be on the road and doing our best to soak it all in, but a taste of normalcy doesn't sound too bad at this point either. Being a tourist is alot of work!!

Over the next week will be going back to Rome, then to Naples, Croatia, Albania and get off the cruise in Venice, where we will be for a couple of days.

We have met some really nice people on the cruise ship and have had many encouraging and intellectual conversations. Honestly, having been tourist for so long, we live for the occasional stimulating conversation. With only a couple weeks left in our travels we are doing our best to soak in some relaxation, exercise alot and spend plenty of time in spiritual meditation. It has been a great mentality for us both so far.

We continue to be very grateful for the ways God has revealed Himself to us in new ways on this trip. Amazing all the different ways that He has been seen and experienced. Many of those experiences have come through dialog with you all and the people we have run into along the way...

Hope you are well and love you very much!!

jon and jan

p.s. these are some pics from Gibralter at the wild monkey reserve...we are far more terrified than we look!