We're Here!

The kids enjoying other kids who know what life is like when you're getting ready to move to Africa!

Focus on the Family headquarters is just around the corner, and we LOVED Whit's End, and Odyssey!

A 3-story slide that you had to be 5'9" or under to go down... Jana just made the cut off!

         

They had a wardrobe that you could walk through to enter in Narnia!

                     

Even the Imagination Station was there!

                                           

Politics???

 Since I am not a very politically savvy person, I will likely never again post about politics... but on our trip across the United States to attend Mission Training International's SPLICE session, we have happened upon some great goings on!

 Our first stop was in Danville, KY to visit our dear friends who moved from MT to KY at the same time that we moved to GA.  This happened to coincide with the Vice Presidential debate at Centre College!  We stood on the roadside and watched the motorcades speed by-fire trucks, suburbans, police, lights and sirens.

 Even the coffeeshops were on board for the VP debates coming to town!

We stood on the lawn outside and watched the debate on the huge screen~ it was a great experience, especially for the kids to see all of the preparation that goes into hosting such an event.  Secret Service agents, law enforcement, and even a Mobile Decontamination Unit was set up in the surrounding area!

Herman is dead...

...we hope!

Aaron brought home a stowaway.  We call it Herman.  Science calls it Cutaneous Larva Migrans.
We named him as a coping mechanism to deal with several weeks of hosting this most unwelcome parasitic guest! 

Herman is a worm living in Aaron's hand.  He can't penetrate the dermis, so he doesn't have any potential to threaten general health and well-being.(or at least that's what they've told us) But still- it's creepy!!  We've seen two different doctors, and treated him with two different meds- by treating, I mean, attempting to kill.

He would have died on his own eventually- but we aren't that patient.  When Herman moves, it itches and is highly irritating- and we're greenhorn missionaries, so we wimped out and gladly swallowed whatever pills the docs threw our way!  We are chalking this up as fun, exciting story number 1- many more to come I'm afraid!