Wow almost two months away... where to begin... well, its like this.  I realized I had been spending way too much time on the internet and decided to unplug.

Life has been pretty exciting over the last couple of weeks.

First, with the advent of spring and summer weather Rachel welcomed it with a nice rose bush in front of our apartment

Next we traveled to CMA Council with the in-laws down in Orlando, Florida.  It was our 1-year anniversary gift to each other.  It was very cool.  The speakers were great and preached things that Rach and I needed to hear.  I unfortunately did not take any pictures at Council but I did get some nice beach shots, mabey it stems from time in Korea where you develop this fear of looking like a foreign tourist... but as Jay was quick to remind me, we were all white, we stick out.

Speaking of foreign tourist, just this past week our church is hosting a bunch of Brazilians who have come to improve their English.  We started out with a retreat to Western North Carolina mountains and went rafting down the Nantahala River.  Twas also lots of fun.  Rach and I have gotten to know several of them well and have been invited to go teach English in Brasil.  We'll see but I think we'd be totally up for that.

The English Encounter ends tomorrow.  It has been excellent and we cannot wait for the next one or possibly Lord willing travel to Brazil.  Well on an ending note I will leave you with this juicy bit of gossip.  This guy is counting down the days til Nancy Drew comes to Korea

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Will