Seriously...ever since I've been getting older, time seems to fly by. A year is like a snap of a finger. That's crazy man!
More fun traveling pictures: this is me at a windmill park in Holland. I spent a long weekend there over Thanksgiving to be with "family," the Thomassens-good family friends of mine and fellow missionaries. Yes, I love this picture of me.
This is me in Italia!! This is one of the countries I definitely wanted to visit while living in Europe and I actually got to go--work related! We had a Southern Europe Missionary retreat in Belaria, Italy. I took a couple days of vacation to visit Venice before, and Florence after (pictured below, me on the Ponte Vecchio).
Here are some more Spain images. This is me with Alexandra, a baby girl I often see at get togethers of friends from the church. She is adorable! Mmm. Her daddy is a Spaniard and her mommy is from Chicago. Her parents say she always seems comfortable around me and that she doesn't go to people she doesn't know very well....but I what can I say...I'm Auntie Crystal!! I love getting my baby time with her when I can since I'm so far away from my own!!
And these lovely ladies are Sephora and Orialí, my friends from France and Dominican Republic respectively. Sephora was here for May and June for an internship. Ori was studying in Madrid and was sort of an intern here, she's leaving at the end of August to go home :(It makes me sad-because we have fun together and I can practice my Español with her. She'll be missed. But now I have a reason to go to the Dominican!!
One of the highlights of the year, truly, was having my 3 good girlfriends from home visit me for a week of fun in Andalucia, the southern part of Spain! Angela, Amanda and Emily flew over for a little spring break and to visit me of course! They were the first of my friends/family to visit me all the way from the states! We had a great time. It was so great to have close friends to talk with and just have fun! Thanks girls for coming!
At the end of my 1 year blogs, the first person to know (and tell me) how many new countries I've been in (including airport layovers) gets a big Spanish beso from me next time I see them!
3 comments:
Let's see... you have been to Spain, obviously. Denmark, ireland, holland, germany, italy,sweden,and i think that is it... i think you went to switzerland as well, but not sure... am i right?
well, you forgot some. but I haven't posted all of my 1 year blogs yet. you did well...you missed where I spent Christmas and New Years. Maybe you'll have to wait until part C!!
france. you visited france. and monico...
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