update

well, i've already gotten behind on this. Just wanted to update everyone on what's been going on. We were in PA at the beginning of the month, visited the Lititz church, and spoke to 12 different ABF's about the Château ministry - really had an awesome time there. Also got to stop by on our way back and see Matt & Marianne Vosberg, and their new little girl Morgan.

Debbie's been working on the mural, I've been working on design stuff, not too much new going on. We spent Thanksgiving with my family, actually we spent a whole week with them, since we decided to let a French couple stay in our apartment that week. The Griffiths (fellow missionaries to France) had some of their friends from France visiting, and since our apartment was right across the hall from the Griffiths, we decided it would be much nicer for their friends to stay there, rather than in a hotel somewhere.

My brother Joel and I (and his friend Drew) got up at 4am to sit in front of Staples on black Friday, hoping to pick up some good deals when the store opened at 6am. We're pretty geeky. Not as geeky as the 8 people in line in front of us, but still, pretty geeky. But I'm happy with my 400GB SATA hard drive for $50 :)

Debbie and I celebrated our 5th year anniversary on the 23rd, and enjoyed a nice trip up to Chicago to see a broadway musical, and shopping. I can't believe we've already been married 5 years, we're so ancient.

Know your world?

Think you know alot about geography? Try this:

http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974

and post your score (if you're proud of it) in the comments.

(you can try it a few times, it changes the questions, although you'll get a few repeats)

stats

just in case anyone is curious, this site has been up for one month now - and here's the traffic stats for it:

269 visits by 76 different people in 6 different countries.
Of those visits, 25% were using an Apple macintosh computer, and the rest were windows (other than 2 visits from linux, which were probably Dan Sandlian, since that person uses "chunghwa telecom data communication" which sounds suspiciously Taiwanish to me). Apple still has a ways to go in it's takeover of the world. Still, it's a start.

off to PA!

This weekend we'll be heading over to PA - visiting the Lititz church on Sunday, and meeting with a few other church mission teams or mission team leaders - and we're hoping to touch base with a few people who may be interested in working at the Château as interns - it'll be a busy 4 days.

Other than that, not a lot going on. Our garage sale went well, we have slimmed down our belongings and are ready to move out of the country. We found a home for our cat Nadia - she's staying with my parents, who already have two cats, and really didn't want another one, but my parents are way too nice, and agreed to watch her for us. That's about all that's new - just working, visiting churches, and raising support :)

Thought I'd throw in a video I put together about the Château ministry, some of you have probably already seen it, but some haven't. Enjoy!