Of Windmills, Tulips, and Hope

Hello world!

Greetings from... *drumb roll* HOLLAND!

We have spent the last two days here in this beautiful land of Windmills and Tulips and have been having a lovely time of it!

Living life dramatically is just so much more exciting than...than... ... ... not living life dramatically.

"Tourists!"

Here is where we saw wooden shoes being made.

Wooden shoe as far as the eyes can see.

Here, Austin sports a fashionable pair of cow wooden shoes.

*woot-woot!*

Just two good lookin' dutch girls.

Amsterdam.

Bikes everywhere.

Very cool.

Our hotel is a little more ritzy than we are used to.

We pretty much feel like the hilliest of hillbillies here.

It's fun.

Another wooden shoe picture?

For those of you who haven't had the chance of being charmed by Nikki's grin... this photograph is for you.

And for those of you who have had this incredible experience... enjoy it once again.

Today we visited Keukenholf a large and very beautiful garden.

Be aware of many random photographs of people posing in front of flowers.

Pretty much, there were a whole heap of pictures being taken.

See Isreal chase duck.

See Isreal climb.

I have decided to spare you from all the flower pictures that no one really wants to see (your welcome)... but I have to share just this one.

These really inspired me today.

Hand painted by God.

Our God really is a God of the small details too!

(Awkward photo alert!)

Then afterwards...the highlight.

Corrie Ten Boom's House.

Wow, wow, wow!

In Israel some of us went to the Houlucost Museam.
Everything those people went through was enough to put me in a daze for hours.
And what was worse, they had no hope. They needed Jesus!
So different from today at Corrie Ten Boom's house. Corrie had hope, she had a message to share with the world. Corrie had Jesus!
And we have that same hope, that same message! We have Jesus!
wow!

Now in closing, a quote from Corrie:

"There is no pit so deep

 that God's love is not deeper still."