Israel 2018. Day 1 Another Awesome Adventure We are so excited to have this wonderful opportunity to see where Jesus walked when he lived here on earth! We began this journey this morning with a rather bumpy start—we managed to forget our nicest camera at home! Thanks to our wonderful daughter,Andrea, she will be overnighting it to friends we are staying with in Passaic, New Jersey. Hopefully it will get there tomorrow (Saturday). We took of...

Israel Trip Day 2 Sunday Today was a relaxing day for me! We got up & had a delicious breakfast! After breakfast James helped the Pastor fix a saw & also the electronic church sign! I just stayed at the house & waited for our camera to show up (which it did around 9:45). Hopefully we won’t forget it anymore! After lunch everyone took a siesta! When we got up we walked downtown in Passaic & got some hot chocolate from dunkin’ donuts!...

July 3, 2014 Day 17 of our European adventure We got up early to finish up the last minute packing before checking out of our hotel to wait for our taxi! I had reservations about whether or not Ricardo ( our taxi driver) would remember to pick us up but he showed up right at 7:00 am as we had discussed yesterday! We got to the airport & had to wait to get checked in but finally got everything checked in & our suitcases weren't even overweight which I ...

July 2, 2014 Day 16 of our European Adventure Today we were able to sleep in a little since we had agreed to meet Carol & Rob by the sagrada familia at 9:30! We were going to call them last night however we realized we didn't even know their last names! But we had agreed to meet them before we got off the boat at this place & we also had received an email from Carol while we were in Barcelona so we proceeded to our meeting place after enjoying a few p...

June 28, 2014 Day 12 of our European Adventure James here - Two words... Today Rome! After a 1&1/2 hour bus trip we made it. We saw quite a few sites along the way but we were soon standing in front of the grand Roman Coliseum. It was really crowded, in fact I think I could have walked across the square on the heads of the people. We were warned repeatedly about the pickpockets, then we started our journey up to the coliseum. Due to the crowd we were given ...