Days Inn Grand Rapids Downtown

... night, thereby sacrificing one night’s accommodation for the relative safety and sanity of Chicago again (from where we’d fly to Boston). Having made our new travel plans we started on our final walk back to the hotel, once more experiencing the suburban perfection of Holland. There was immediate unease caused by the lack of humans anywhere in town,...not even birds were singing. The only sign of life were the squirrels, there were hundreds of them ...

So I head off today on this big adventure! I will be in Amsterdam for 3 days and then I head off to Arusha on Sunday with my group. I am full of excitement and nerves and I can't wait to learn and experience everything this semester will offer. There will be many stories and photos (if I can find somewhere to upload them) to follow. 
Love and peace to everyone I will miss you!

-Molly

Well, this is just a welcome to my newly-formed travel blog. I've been in Holland for most of the summer, and I am going home in a day and a half to spend the next two weeks with my family. Holland has been good for me... I don't think I could have spent another summer working at my high school job in Red Wing. But hey, who says you can't go home?

Tuesday 7/28

Photography day is here or was. Dan the model called to ask permission to bring a model friend along and so did. Started at 10 am and finished at about 2pm having made over 1000 images. Now the processing of those images, down to a very few, begins when I get back in town. Dan and Braxton both said it was fun and I had a good time as well. Time to think about supper and getting this place cleaned up. Tomorrow its back to da lake and …

... lake looks like it comes up and under the cabin, VERY nice. It is very quite here so much so that the only sound are fingers on keyboard, or is it just my hearing. Anyway, very nice and I have made contact with the model for tomorrow and all sounds good. And so that's a wrap for today.

... opening.) Of course, it was a laugh and all was fine! On the rainy Thursday I made the fateful decision to play with my kids (should've taken a nap instead). While running through the house (I know, I know, another bad choice) my foot collided with the pantry door. As you can see in the photo I have a broken toe. Not ...

... Lodge Bed and Breakfast in Athlone and dinner at Hatter's Lane near the Shannon River, http://www.iolfree.ie/~burrenlodge/ Sunday, Sept. 7 - Today we travel east, visiting the Bog Railroad, the Hill of Tara, Old Mellifont Abbey, Monasterboice High Crosses and Malahide Castle, before staying at the former gatehouse for the Jameson Distiller's estate ...

... appreciated. These things will, most importantly, start funding education in St. Pierre. We can help them help themselves. Hopefully this will inspire others to venture out of the box and help others among us, whether it is Haiti or locally in our own cities and churches. There are people in need all around us. I feel truly blessed to have had my eyes opened to how truly blessed I am! When you serve the poor you serve God!

I really don't like roller coasters and I'm on one. I'm waiting for my visa. The Kazakhstani Embassy is closed for business on Wednesdays so it's highly unlikely that I'll be able to keep my Friday plane tickets. I'm guessing that I'll actually be on a plane and in the air early next week. It sure ...

... house to get summer clothes and CD's to bring home with us. After four days with Cath and Jude, we went to Bill and Sandy's. A great visit. Sandy arranged a beautiful open house for us on Holy Saturday. Lots of people: Bill and Sandy, of course, Paulette, Pastor Joe, Peggy Rozga, Chuck Ellingson, Brad Hausler, Mary Steppe, Irene, and two friends of Sandy and Bill and Brad Hausler from Minneapolis (I can't think of their ...