The Land of Pol

Tomorrow, Chase and I leave for Poland with four friends (well, three if one can't locate his passport in time) for our second international mission trip. We're supposed to have Internet access at our hotel, so we're planning on updating the Poland Blog we made last year. If you go to that blog, you can see pictures and stories from last year's trip and a bit of what we're supposed to be doing this year.

More Fun with Our New Camera

Since the weather was so nice last evening, Chase and I decided to go out and play with our camera some more. We went down to Giant City State Park and then picked up a friend and went to Garfield's for dinner. I've also included some pictures from an international picnic at Lake of Egypt the Thursday night.

Me in some tall grass

The steering wheel of our tiny car (thanks to Grandma & Grandpa!)

Chase next to our tiny car. This reminds me of a senior portrait, you know, when guys are all proud of their cars and get their pictures looking all tough by them.

The smiley face water tower

At Garfield's you can draw on the tables, well, on paper on the tables.

Chase wearing his Polska jersey- he's ready to go to Poland!

Our friend Bethany will be on a mission trip in Tanzania with her husband and a team of students while we're on our Poland trip.

Chase took this picture of our pastor's daughter, Lydia.

Angela warming up by the fire

Chase took this picture of Bekah. She was trying to imitate Lydia rolling down a hill and ended up with a mouth full of grass. Apparently she was spitting it out for quite some time.

PIZZA? Now THAT'S What I Call a TACO!

Last weekend we trekked back to Kentucky for a graduation celebration. You can read about that on Chase's blog. On the way back to Illinois, we stopped in Louisville to visit our friends Caleb & Keli. Caleb is a fan of tacos and taco-related foods. For dinner, and for my first time ever, we had taco in a bag.

What is taco in a bag? It's pretty simple; you just take all of the stuff you would normally put into a taco shell, but you put it in a bag of Frito's instead resulting in this deliciousness:

There ya have it, taco in a bag. And now here's a picture of Keli & me enjoying some:

We took this past weekend as an opportunity to use our brand new camera and get familiar with it before we go to Poland. Here is a fun picture I took of Keli:


And here's her crazy dog, Luther:


Here's her crazy statue of Don Quixote:


This time next week we'll be taking pictures in Poland!