in Belgium

hey everyone, im still in belgium!! im also using an "azerty" keyboard so sorry if there are typos. havent had many chances to get to an internet place so thatsd explains the absence of new posts. wont be back till the 8th of august, and then it will be back to minnesopta!!

off traveling :)

today was a long day, but was a good one! steph and i got up sunday morning and went to church, then had lunch with the Petersen's, and then packed our bags for the SQ trip to Belgium. We stayed up the entire night, and left at 2am to drive down to DFW airport in Dallas (a 3 hour drive). We arrived there late (cause we left late) and just made our flight. We flew into New York and arrived there just after 12pm. We have now been up nearly 24 hours (minus a few on the plane) but we are in New York City. We dropped of our bags at the hotel and took the subway to downtown. We saw the statue of Liberty, ground zero of the former World Trade Center buildings, the Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, Trump International Tower, Times Square, and a host of other cool buildings and sights in NYC. And we did it all on no sleep and in about 4 hours. It was just me, steph, jen and kristin. We then met up with kent and emily and had a little leadership meeting and now it's time to hit the hay. We pick up all the athletes for the Belgium trip at the airport tomorrow and then we fly over to Brussels, Belgium around 6pm. It potentially could be my last trip with SportQuest, and it's kind of bittersweet. I'm really excited for the trip and what is going to happen. Please pray for us and for the people in Belgium if you remember. I probably wont be able to post while i'm gone so dont worry if more than a week passes, i'll eventually be back. and I'll put pictures from the trip to NYC and from belgium when i get back and am able to post. bye!!

link for pictures

ok, i finally got the rest of the pictures up. If you want to see pictures from the basketball camp and of our SQ team that was in Ireland, click on this link and it will let you see them, http://nwc.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2017728&l=d0afb&id=110901656.
Things are going good here for Steph and I, just been busy working in the office getting all the last minute things done for the Belgium trip, doing all of our laundry, catching up on personal stuff like bills and mail, and just enjoying being "home" till we leave for Belgium on Monday. Not much more news now, but will post again soon.

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few changes

I messed up when I put those links in for the pictures in yesterday's post. Disregard those links and try these: for sightseeing pictures of our trip: http://nwc.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2017628&l=01a91&id=110901656. I'll put the other link up tomorrow when I get the pictures up.

Ireland Trip

wow!! well, as you noticed in the last short post, steph and I got back into the states late Saturday night. We mostly just rested up yesterday and caught up on a few voicemails and email messages. Today we are back in the office and working, trying to get the last few things finished up in preparation for the Belgium trip (which we leave for on Monday the 16th and will be gone for 3 weeks).
The last 2 weeks were great! Steph and I got to go to Ireland a few days early and visit some friends and do some sightseeing. We arriving in Ireland on the 27th of June, took a bus up to Dublin and stayed there with some friends. We walked around Dublin city and then some other areas in the "suburbs", visited some friends, and got to see alot of cool sites. It was so great to be back over there and also to get to take steph with me. Then on Fri. the 29th we traveled back across the country to Limerick, where we did some more sightseeing and stayed in a Bed and Breakfast.
Finally on Sat. the 30th, the rest of the team (Jennifer, Ronni, Taylor, Kristin, and Seth) arrived in Shannon to meet us for the camp. Also joining us from Ireland were Elton, Ngoni, and George. Overall, we had a great team and we all got along really well, and it was so much fun!! The first two days we went sightseeing to Killarney (Muckross National Park) and then to the Cliffs of Moher, and finally to Lahinch where we went surfing.
The main purpose of the trip was doing a basketball camp Mon-Fri. for 4 hours each day, and then to do outreach with the Shannon Evangelical Church. The basketball camps went really really well!! We had about 30-35 kids and they were very excited to learn and made great progress throughout the week. In the evenings, we had O-Zone (11-14) and JamZone (15-19) for the kids on Mon, Wed, and Fri. at the church. This is the youth group meeting (which is usually just friday nights, but this was a special week) and it was alot of fun. Not too many kids from the camp came to these three evening events, which was a little disappointing but we are trusting that God still moved in their hearts as they saw something different about our team. The other two nights, Tuesday and Thursday, we had sporting events. Tuesday was the Mini World Cup, where we had basketball games between a US team (ours), an Irish team, Filipino team, and then a Zimbabwean team. Also, Seth and I and Ronni sang the national athem for the US, needless to say it wasnt pretty because seth and i were singing. While we sang, steph and kristin had made up an interpretive dance to go along and it was super funny! It will all be on YouTube, so look for that soon!! (http://www.youtube.com/phatrhino13) Then on Thursday we had a night where we split up all the kids from the camp into different teams and they played each other in real games, and invited all their parents. Not many parents came, but it was a really fun night!!
That pretty much sums up our week. The only bad thing was it was too short. I wish we could have been there so much longer!! well, leaving work now. I'll post again soon.

home

well, it's sunday and we just got back home late last night from Ireland. I'm pretty tired, but we made it back safe and had a great trip! I'll post more details about it tomorrow.