Vacation Time!
A number of you, including my sister-in-law, JoAnn, have questioned our commitment to actually working here in Freiburg. We post a lot of pictures of places we've been, sights we've seen, and we've been (jokingly) accused of being on vacation out here, and not doing much in the way of real missionary work. All I have to say in our defense is that this post will do nothing to disprove any of those allegations. August is THE month for vacations here in Germany. There are lots of cars towing trailers and lots of those rented motor homes clogging the roads all through southern Germany and Switzerland. Friends of ours here have taken off to Italy, the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, and Ibiza, vacation islands in the Mediterranean belonging to Spain), and even the Maldives. This is an island nation off the southwestern tip of India, and is becoming quite popular. As far as we're concerned, our prime responsibility is to feed the Young Adu...