Portsmouth, UK

Today was a beautiful day. First time we saw the sun since we came. It was warm and wonderful weather. After a good lunch we headed out to explore the town of Portsmouth.

Here are some pictures of the day.

Mark's garden

Mark making lunch

Josephine

A cool bunch of buildings down by the sea

First time in the Atlantic Ocean in a different country!

Paul and Mark

Josephine 

The pier

Mark and Josephine

Got some ice cream

Swans...the Queens bird

One of the forts we visited....

One of the ships called the Mary Rose

A tunnel in the fort...

The Garrison Church. 

The roof was bombed off during WW II.

England, UK

We made it to England!!

We left John F Kennedy Airport in NYC on Wednesday evening. Our flight was about 5 hours long to Iceland. We landed at about 6:30am local time. From there we had a 2.5 hour flight over to London so we arrived there at 11:30am.  Took the train from Heathrow Airport to the center of London. Walked through the Royal Park and saw Buckingham Palace. It was quite expensive to stay in the city so we headed down to Portsmouth by bus. We are staying with some friends from a church here. 

Here are some pictures of the trip so far.

This is all our luggage!

Ready to go...

Layover in Iceland

Buckingham Palace in London...

A new friend we made in London!

Virginia

Here is a collection of some of the pictures while we were Virginia. Miss you guys!

Shenandoah Valley Morning

The heavens declare the glory of God; 

the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 

Day after day they pour forth speech;

night after night they reveal knowledge. 

They have no speech, they use no words;

no sound is heard from them.

Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,

their words to the ends of the world. 

In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. 

It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, 

like a champion rejoicing to run his course.

It rises at one end of the heavens 

and makes its circuit to the other; 

nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Psalm 19:1-6

Sunday And Walk

Sunday. 

We went to church in the morning and then just hung out the rest of the day. Took a walk to the railroad bridge in the evening. 

Anto

Jesse

Jadis

Anto wanted to take a picture of me

Haircuts and English Tea

We are in Virginia visiting my family for a week. Its been nice to be home. Paul has been giving haircuts and Mama planned an "English tea" in honor of us going to Europe. It was complete with little current tea-cakes. Good times.

Goodbye

Before we left home we stopped in to say goodbye to our favorite neighbors and of course our newest little niece! :) We will miss her ALOT!! Love you Amora!