1 last video

Yea for getting to ride a camel - even if it was a tourist trap on the beach!!

Watch it till the end and see him almost bite me!

Videos

Trying out posting some of the short videos I took on my camera:

Men praying in a mosque

Expatriate protestant church / French service worship

Donkey parking lot at the local village market

Mountain village market

Rug Weavers

Some Pictures

We are in the process of loading our pictures on one website where you can view them all. It isn't complete yet but visit http://northafrica08.smugmug.com.

Here are a few previews:

Courtney, Tracy & Emily drinking freshed squeezed orange juice on the square

Emily, Courtney & Jennifer model local hair wrapping styles

Emily rides a camel on the beach!

The gate into the Medina - blue on one side (the city's color) & green on the other (Islam's color)

Thank You

Sorry I didn't diction well with the second sentence of my last post. A little jet lag perhaps...... We also wanted to thank everyone who supported us financially and prayerfully during our trip. God really made an impact in each one of our lives! His heart beats for the unreached, and each of our missions is to go. If you don't reach out to those that need to see His grace, who will?

Finally Home!

We are all finally home! It was a great trip and we can't wait to tell everyone the heart happy and funny stories with you all. Some of the group from last year's trip met us at the airport after getting off the plane - thank you guys! It was comforting to see some familiar faces. BTW.... Mike Penny was there and received a severe lashing for misconstruing the hiking scenario. Ha! Sorry about that Mike :) Laundry is being done and we all have a list of everything that we want to do now that we are back in the States. Please keep checking the blog as we will be posting stories and sharing photos soon!

Out of Breath... whew!

We are on our flight to Atlanta...barely! We had to literally sprint across 3 terminals, re-checkin, and go to security again but we all made it on the flight just as they announced final boarding call.

It has been a really long day of travel after our taxi drivers in North Africa got turned around and we drove down any interstate exit ramp the wrong way and did a U-turn in the middle of the highway! Fun times. Next we went to the wrong terminal there and got on just in time for that flight too. In North Africa you have to go through 3 security areas and everyone single person gets a pat down. Guess we should feel good about that though and not complain. Another cool fact is that we were probably on the safest flight we could be because the prince of our North African country was traveling in first class with all his entourage and bodyguards.

Please continue to read this blog as we will be adding final thoughts, pictures and maybe some video in the coming days as we process all we experienced.

Thanks for your support and comments - they really meant a lot to us.

Flying Home

I'm up early to finish packing. We are meeting at 7am to get in taxis to head back to the airport which is about any hour and a half away. We fly out at 10am and arrive back in New York City 8 hours later. We will have a little layover and should be back in ATL around 7:30. I have mixed feelings about leaving and think it will be interesting to process all we've learned and the vastly differnt cultures back in America but I am ready to get back to all the freedoms and conveniences we take for granted.

Can't wait to see you all and eat some Mexican food/get a pedicure!! :)

Praying we have an uneventful trip home!