It’s been a while since we last posted, so I thought I’d throw out a few interesting nuggets:
Most Interesting Person: Yesterday I met an older gentleman named Neil who is world renowned for training rescue and caedavor dogs. He lives right outside Newcastle in the mountains.
God Is Too Good To Us Yet Again: We continue to have these moments where stuff we didn’t even think to pray about drops in our laps. Like when I went to get a mobile phone and they were all out of the model we wanted, but it just so happened that when the kid went back to the stock room they “must have got a new shipment or something” and there was the one we wanted. Or when we were given a piano, delivered to our door for free by a man we’d never met (friend of a friend). What’s up with that? We didn’t even pray for a piano because it seemed to far out there.
Best Food Surprise: Last time we were here we were really dissappointed at the pizza, so we were all geared up for years of sub-par sauce and cardboard crust. But it turns out the little pizza parlor in Newcastle has pretty good Italian-style pizza for only a few pounds. Yes!
Forgotten Pet Peave: People in Europe generally don’t use sheets! They tend to have a fitted sheet under you and just a duvet (thick blanket) over you. For some reason, this bothers me to no end. I can’t quite sleep right – like I just feel naked and can’t get comfortable. Guess that’s my OCD side coming out… (To be fair, we did have a sheet at Campbell and Kristi’s, but not at the new place, which was a simple remedy after the first night)
Tonight we’ll hopefully get to go to the pub and hear some good traditional music. Looking forward to that, for sure.
Mark
hey how are your church experiences thus far? That would be a great blog post.