Around the World....

List of my top 10 favorite cities in the world to date...

Jerusalem, Israel

Prague, Czech Republic

Charleston, South Carolina

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Venice, Italy

Savannah, Georgia

Antalya, Turkey

Berlin, Germany

Salzburg, Austria

San Diego, California

There are many other places I have been that I really love as well...like San Francisco, CA. Dublin, Ireland.  Faro, Portugal. Malaga, Spain. Agadir, Morocco. Stockholm, Sweden. But they didn't make it on the top 10 list.

My next cities I want to check out are...Sainte Mere Eglise, France. New York City (I've been to airport but never in the actual city) Ciaro, Egypt. Buenos Aries, Argentina. Barcelona, Spain. London, England. Moscow, Russia. Petra, Jordan. The Grand Canyon. Niegra Falls and Alaska to see the northen lights. I would also really like to do a road trip across the USA. I think that would be awesome too.

Who knows if I will ever get to all these places...but then again I never thought I would go to all the places I have been. The Lord has blessed me so much in giving me so many opportunities to live and travel abroad! I never thought that walking by faith, obeying the Lord in some crazy ideas would take me all over the world and back again. I hope that never stops...

July...

Wow, I haven't written in a few weeks now. A lot has been going on. I started working as a cleaner at a gym called Fit X here in Münster. I've been getting up to work at 4:30-8:00am every morning for the past few weeks so maybe that has cramped my writing abilities since I feel like a zombie woman most of the day. Anyways...

This past month has been a fun one despite the cold and rainy weather here. We traveled to Berlin to meet up with our friends Sammy and Caleb. They live in Sweden, so Berlin was a good place to meet in the middle. I blogged about it on our ministry blog here: www.paulandbec.blogspot.com. Needless to say Berlin is now on my top 10 favorite cities in the world! I loved it! So much life, food, history, amazing architecture and people! It even had some dirt...which I know sounds weird. But seriously, here in Münster there is none,  so seeing dirt, cigarette butts, coke cans and some trash made me feel good for some reason.

The other night Paul took me out on a date in the city. I actually wore a dress and make up and did my hair nice. And Paul wore a nice button down shirt. We ate at Vapianos. Paul ordered his usual calzoni and I order a dinkle pasta scampi. It was so delicious! We then walked around the city, ate some ice cream and headed to hang out in our favorite cafe here in the city called Cafe Gasoline. It is an old gas station that they turned into a cafe and bar. We love the atmosphere there because it reminds us of how the cafes in Israel are. Except they don't have the awesome coffee that Israeli cafes have. It was really great dressing up and everything! I mean we hang out together all the time but we rarely dress up and on a proper date. It was super fun!

 

Bleeding Red, White and Blue...

I am very patriotic, I was raised that way. With each year that passes it seems as though I become more and more. I am not ashamed of it, traveling the world these past years I have realize how truly unique and special my homeland is. It is like no other country. The American people from the beginning were people who desired change, desired to be free and were willing to fight for the rights in which to do so. They were people of faith, people of determination, people who would not back down from a crazy tyrannic king and the world's strongest super power. As I read the Declaration of Independence yesterday, it truly is an amazing declaration for humanity. To believe that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness-" and to that "whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it". America has changed a lot of over the years, and I am not saying that Americans are always right about everything. But this one thing we have done good, and that is creating a country where the freedoms which God our Creator has given us can actually be lived. I am proud to be an American, I am proud of the truths our country was founded on. I am proud of the men and women who have died laying their lives down for these truths. To protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I love the spirit Americans have...to be creative, to take risks, to not back away, to be different, to hope for a better future. Paul and I have been watching this series found on YouTube called America: The story of US. It really has brought out the American spirit in us. Seeing why Americans are the way we are, all the change and hardships our country has gone through and triumphs we have had. It really is amazing!

Now that I got out all my patriotism, I can actually tell you how we celebrated yesterday being Americans in Germany. It was probably the saddest 4th of July we ever had, but we didn't let it get us down. We made hot wings with a Louisiana hot sauce. Potato salad, sweet southern tea of course. A red, white and blue dessert made from American jello, whipped cream and blueberries. Though there were no fireworks, we did listen to some patriotic music and watched some patriotic movies. The Patriot, just for the record is one my favorite movies, Mel Gibson is amazing! And I even got to talk to my family in the Great State of Virginia. Here are some shots of our lil' 4th of July Celebration.