Europe 2010

Rome was amazing!! We stayed at a little hostel right close to Vatican City! We saw the Vatican and the Colloseum and had a great two days!! We made friends with people from as far away as Austrailia and as close to home as New Jersey! I really enjoyed it!

We were going to leave Rome and go to Venice, Italy. We had met two girls in Barcelona who were vacationing and they live in Venice and we were planning on catching up with them, but when we tried to book a hostel not a single one was open that was priced under 100 euros each! With our budget of 70 euros a day TOGETHER (for food, transportation, shelter, all of it) we could in no way afford that. We then looked into a few cities in Switzerland and found the same problem! It was not that any of these cities didnt offer cheaper hostels, it was that they were all booked up! We finally settled on Paris. We were planning on going here later and just thought we could do it now and not have to worry about it later. We booked a cheap hostel and headed to the train station. We waited in line for ticketes only to find out that all the trains for Paris were full! So I guess that is not the path we were supposed to take either... So we decided that Germany was where we were supposed to go. Grant has a friend who is graciously allowing us to stay with her in Mannheim, Germany so here we are.

I am so thankful that God keeps us on his path. He is in controll of all of this and it does not really matter where we think we are going, God remains faithful to us taking us where he leads.


Another change of plans has been happening over the last few days. My Photosafe broke. That is the device that I use to store all the videos from my video camera so I can record new ones on the memory card. It worked at the start of the trip and has been in a nice padded case the whole time but for whatever reason it has decided to break. This means we can not empty the memory card to record more footage. I spent some time in prayer and considered my options. I decided that this is God telling me to just live over here, to not worry about this documentary and to just love the people and show them the love of God. So, while it saddens me to not be able to film over here I have realized that this is was never about what I want to do. This trip is and has always been about what God wants so I praise Him for making things so clear as to what He wants from me. I am sad that I will not have videos to show you all, but trust that this is the best way.

"When a person's steps are directed by the Lord, how than can anyone understand his own way?"

Keep the prayers coming!

-Lexi