Mozambique

We have been in Mozambique about three weeks now. When we arrived we spent about 10 days at the Guest House. It's really nice and is above the New Tribes Office so we were by all the missionaries that are preparing to go into the villages.

We have really been welcomed by all the NTM Missionaries here and really feel at home. I was impressed, off the bat by DJ, the team leader, when I met him in Florida last year and was invited to come. We have had alot of fun with others here too: Pete and Charity Rogers have been great. They are such hostpitable people. Pete loves Computer games so we have had some fun playing games at night also. Corlaee is having fun seeing people she grew up with and went to Bible School with. She is really getting her fill of girl time which she has missed since we have been traveling. Everyone is about our age but they all have 2-4 kids already!


Portuguese is really fun here too because it's just close enough to Spanish that I (Jason) can usually understand, and Coralee gets a lot too. They even understand me about half of the time when I am using my Spanish.

We've actually been somewhat of a help to them I believe in the office too. Coralee has been working on lots of projects: Inventory and typing up a huge Field Plan chart into Excel. I've been busy doing what I've been doing everywhere in Africa so far: Fixing the Computers and the Network. It's been really fun!

Last week we went to a Village to see what the Missionaries are actually doing with the people. It's really amazing. New Tribes wants to make sure that the church that is established is really well grounded and that the believers are solid and strong.


First they all have 2-4 years of Bible/Mission Training. Then they have 1 year of the National Language, Portuguese here. Then they have another 6 months in the city before going to a village. Finally once they get into the village they spend the first few years just learning the local language. The goal is to Translate the Bible and teach the people in the Local Language, in the Heart Language.


What's really exciting about this situation is that they are working in an unreached people group. The group is 90% Muslim but it's considered tainted by Animism, Folk Islam is what they call it. Well what they did was really creative. When they first came they told the people that they wanted to translate the Scriptures into their language. When they were asked if it would be the Quaran they said two things:
1.)The Quaran should remain in Arabic according to Islam.
2.)Then they said that the Torah, Zabur (Psalms) & Ingil (Gospel), the Bible to us, are accepted by everyone, Catholics, Protestents, Muslims, Mormons, etc. They understood this and so the people were excited to get the Scriptures in their language and welcomed them to come and teach them as well.


Although it's 90% Muslim they don't have alot of depth because the Services are all in Arabic and no one understands it. It's like the Catholic Masses in Latin but there is no other option. Right now the missionary that is there is learning the language. He is becoming friends with all the Imams, Mosque Leaders, and they consider him an Imam as well. Imam just means Religous teacher. He even goes with them to the Mosque, dresses like them and even fasts during Ramadan. When they ask him if he is a Muslim he expalins that he is only doing this for them but he already has so many points with God he doesn't need to do those things. He won't actually start teaching them until he has mastered the local language.

Well I'm super excited about this type of work and Coralee and I feel like God is calling us to work with NTM here. I have always wanted to work in a Muslim context and with this type of training and tools I believe that these Muslims can actually be reached! It is really exciting and we are applying to New Tribes Training school for the fall of 2007. We are hoping that they take my Masters of Ministry in lieu of the Bible program and will let us go straight into the one year training program in England.


It's a few year process to get back here and start working in a village. We would have to finish the training, raise our support, learn the national language in Portugal or Brazil for a year and then come! So we could use your prayers as we begin this process. I can't belive that we are actually going to go with NTM. I have always been hesitant because everyone in Coralee's family is with them and I wanted to do something with Muslims working in an unreached people group. I never knew that they did anything like this. This just started a few years ago and it seems like it just fits everything that we want to do.

Oh, the last amazing thing about this is that they are planning on eventually equiping the Mozambique church to reach their own unreached people groups. They want to train and equip the local city dwelling Mozambique Christians to finish the task. They want to be able to hand off this work to them in 20 years and let them do it and go home!


Not only are they parterning with the local churches and and missionaries that are here but they are working with SIL (Wycliff) to do a good portion the Bible Translation for these unreached people groups when there is a SIL missionary available.

We are going to take a leap of faith and go for it. We really feel that this is exactly what God has been leading us to do and we are applying to the NTM Training in the Fall. Well we have alot to do and to work on now that we are heading in this direction. It's so great to finally be going in a direction so that we can actaully make plans and go for it! Please keep us in your prayers!

Tanzania: Bus to Mozambique

We just arrived in Nampula, Mozambique today after about 5 days of crazy travel. We took a 15 hour bus to Dar es Salem, Tanzania. We passed Mt. Kilimongaro and were very close to the Sarangetti Animal Reserve on the way. The bus was actually very nice. We left Nairobi, Kenya at 7am and we didn't arrive till 10 pm. We didn't get much sleep though because we left the hotel at 4am to get on another bus to the south to get to the boarder town near Mozambique.

This bus was very crazy and we were packed in. Most of the road was dirt because they haven't completed the new road so it was really bumby and really wiped us out.


Coralee had been such a good sport about all the difficult traveling without much sleep I (Jason) actually splurged and we stayed at an amazing resort in the Tanzanian border town of Mtwara. It was litterally the best place I've ever stayed. The rooms were clean and the restruant was nice too but what made it so amazing was it was right on the beach. And this is the kind of beach that you see in the Magazines or on TV Specials. It was so beautiful and it was all natural coastline! So we spent two nights and just relaxed there all day. Even I (Jason) relaxed. We walked on the beach, read our books while listening to the waves, went for a swim and had a great dinner. Oh, the dinner service is hillarious in Tanzania. It took us 2 hours to get our dinner after we ordered! (The above pic was taken from the front porch of our chalet!)

Well Paradise vanashed the next day. We tried to cross the border into Mozambique. After paying $25 for a 1 hour Taxi ride on a dirt road to the boarder we had to pay $20 to take the boat across. The price was $15 but it went up when we got in!


Then we had to get in the back of a 4x4 Truck and hang on for 4 hours in the blazing sun. It was super crowded and we were beat up. But it gets worse. After we arrived at the guest house they changed the price on us here too. It was supposed to be $20 but now they wanted $25 and they seemed like if we didn't pay them they were going to mess with us. So we did... So it was really a frustrating day and we've decided we never want to cross that border again! Oh, the place we stayed was a super dive with stuff in the toilet that stayed even when you flushed. It smelled horrible, was sweaty, and had no water. It was a dive.

Well today finally improved some. Although we had to wake up at 3:30am to catch the bus we got padded seats for today's 11 hour off road bus ride. About 20 people on the bus were standing the whole time so we felt blessed. But I had to hold it the whole time because if you tried to get off to go to the bathroom you lost your seat!

Well we're in Nampula two days early so hopefully our hosts are OK with our early arrival. We're here to see what NTM is doing and are praying about getting involved here.

Kenya: CCP

We came back to Kenya for a week to see what CCV is doing here up close. CCV's ministry here is actually called CCP (Chosen Children of Promise)We have been visiting the sponsored children in the slums.


We have also been able to see the community center in the slum where they educate the sponsored kids who are behind in school. This is a picture of Kenyan porridge that the kids eat every morning at the community center. Its actually very nutritious but it isn't very tasty. The community center is also used to do Awana and GNC (Good News Club). We were able to see that and help out as well.


Marissa & Jim have been great at showing us around and helping us learn about the program. They also set us up with an amazing Kenyan family who are also board members of CCP. Ben and Janet were amazing. They took such good care of us like we were royalty. They also taught us a lot about Kenyan culture where Women do all the serving at home and the Men just relax!

We leave for Tanzania tomorrow. We are taking busses down to Mozambique and after a few 5-24 hour bus rides we should be there in about a week. Please pray for us as we cross the River into Mozambique because we may have to wade through part of the river and if the ferry isn't running we will have to take canoes too!!! It is bound to be an adventure. All we ask is that God allow us to get there in one piece.

Islam in Africa

Since Ramadan has started I have heard the muslim call to prayer several times. The call to prayer is heard across Africa. It is heart wrenching to be woken up and then to lay there and think of the spiritual bondage these people are in. Even more heart breaking is the thoughts about the Africans that are converting. The majority of the people who convert do so for financial or educational reasons. The Muslims come into their towns and build a school and then say that their kids can come for free if they convert to Islam. The desire for education in Africa is so strong that they have a 80% conversion rate doing this. Then after the kids are attending school for 6 months and after they have converted to Islam they say that they must start paying. There are so many lies. The other way Muslims get converts is through employment. The unemployment rate in Africa is so high that the need for jobs is crucial. Muslims start businesses and then tell people they will hire them if they convert to Islam. The people in most situations need the job so bad that they convert.


As I think about the problems here in Africa I am overwhelmed. The humanitarian needs are so great for orphans, AIDS/HIV victims, and the shortage of water. On top of that is all of the spiritual warfare. Islam is obviously a huge threat. Most people in the USA have no idea how much of Africa is being influenced by Islam. The front line of the war between Christianity and Islam is right here in Africa. One of the recent meetings at the UN security council made a statement saying that they believe that Muslims were trying to take over the whole of Sudan and convert it to Islam so that they could get to Uganda. They believe that Uganda is the gateway to spreading Islam through the rest of Africa. Its so crazy that we never hear about these things in the US. Its so critical for Christians to get involved with strengthening the Christians in Africa and also evangelizing the Muslims.

Uganda: Kampala

We took a bus to Kampala, Uganda last week. We left at 7 am and arrived at 10 pm. It was super bumpy. We were off roading much of the time and even when we were on the road it still felt like we were on the dirt. The bus even felt like it would tip over a few times and didn’t slow down or stop no matter who was in front of us! It was definitely an experience we’ll never forget. We’re actually planning on taking busses from here in the middle of Africa all the way down to South Africa. It’s going to be an adventure and will take about a week just in road time but all the missionaries that have taken these routes say it’s very safe.


We came to visit Calvary Chapel, Kampala. They have been great. We were able to get to know the missionaries and many of the Bible College students. We were also able to meet with FRM (Far Reaching Ministries) and learn that their main goal is Church Planting.


The church is only about 5 years old and already has 500 members. They also have a Bible College with about 30 students. It’s really a small world because Jill and Josh both went with me, Jason, on the Turkey & Greece trip with CC Saving Grace a few years ago. I had no idea that they were the ones we were in contact with.


The first two nights we stayed in a guest house and a hostel, but the rest of the week we have been staying with Jill and her husband Brian, she’s also supported by Saving Grace.


Uganda is crazy too. There are these crazy scooter taxis called Boda-Bodas. Coralee even rode them. They wiz through traffic and you swear your are going to die every time. The power also goes out every day sometimes for a few days. Everyone has a generator but the town center gets so noisy and smelly it's hard to talk or breath, especially indoor mall type shops where every shop has a generator runnin indoors! The water goes out alot too, not fun when you just shaved your head and can't take a shower.


We have been amazed to see how many Muslims there are in East Africa. It turns out that although 60% of the population claims to be "Christian" about 30% claims to be Muslim. It's very sad to see so many mosques and people wearing veils and muslim caps. Many Christian missionaries see Uganda as a key place in the battle for souls against Islam. The UN recently said that Muslim leaders want to convert Uganda to Islam as a stepping stone to spread it throughout the rest of Africa! (In the above pic of downtown the tower in the center of the pic is a huge Mosque!)


I (Jason) have been helping fix all the computers and the network in the Bible College and in the Church office and Coralee has been babysitting the pastor’s kids with Jill.

We return to Kenya in a few days and will stay there for over a week before continuing on to Tanzania and then Mozambique. We are planning on working with New Tribes Mission in Mozambique for the entire month of October. We miss all our friends and family and you are constantly in our prayers!

Kenya: Nairobi

We made it to Nairobi. We had a great flight and we didn't have any problems getting into the country. We we're so surprised to find out when we got here that 3 people from CCV were here. Mike Long, Elaine Lucas, and Danielle our new missions director. It was so fun to spend a couple of days with them while they were here


We even got to go on Safari with Marisa and Elaine. It was so much fun. We saw giraffes, zebras, gazelle, buffallo, crocs, turtles, and tons of different kinds of birds. We also go to go to a place where we could feed the giraffes. Jason put a pellet of food between his lips and let the giraffe lick it off his face. It was pretty grose. Feeding the giraffes by hand was a lot of fun though.




We were able to visit the Slum where CCV is working yesterday and today we went to church there as well. It's a very poor place so I only used the camera in the Car but the people seem really nice and all the kids kept saying, "How ar u?" as we passed each group of kids. CCV really has an amazing ministry here because they take care of kids without taking them away from their families. Here when a kid is orphined another family member takes care of them. So what CCV is doing is providing extra help for the families in the slum that need it. It's really a great idea and is working well and has very good oversight.


There is an entire team of Kenyans visiting the families and verifying that each kid is going to church, school and getting the basic needs met. CCV requires that the kids be in school but some of the kids aren't allowed to go to school because they are so behind so they stated a special school to catch up the students that are behind!


We plan to be in Kenya for about 3 weeks total. We are hoping to visit Calvary Chapel in Uganda in about a week. That is of course provided that we hear back from them and its a good time for us to visit. So we will see. We also found out that we can take a bus from Nairobi, Kenya to Nampula, Mozambique going through Tanznaia. It will take almost a week but it is bound to be a good adventure. We are staying at a mission guest house and were able to talk with a missionary who recently made that trip. He said that Tanzania is actually a pretty safe country and he has people we can meet up with Dar Es Salam and on the border of Tanzania and Mozambique. God is so amazing how he brings people along our path. We also found out that we will be able to take a bus from Nampula, Mozambique to Jo,burg, South Africa when we leave Mozambique. So it seems like we will be taking a lot of buses. It will definately help us cut down on the costs though. The plane tickets are pretty expensive here in Africa.
Sorry there are no pics. We will have to find a computer where we can upload them.

Our New Itinerary

Well, we have finally gotten our final itinerary. We leave England on Saturday, Sept 9th and arrive in Nairobi at 8pm. We will be there about 4 weeks with CCV and then we move on to Mozambique for about 3 weeks with New Tribes Mission. We hope to see the work they are doing there and possibly visit a tribe or two. From there we move on to New Delhi, India for about 3 weeks and we fly out of Bombay. That should be a fun journey from Delhi to Bombay. We hope to go by train but we will see. Once we leave India we head for Thailand for about 3 to 4 weeks. We hope to visit NTM missionaries in Chang Mai and we are also hoping to get to Puket. After Thailand we go to Tokyo, Japan for about 3 days. Its too expensive to stay long. From there we head over to Sydney for about 3 days and then we catch a flight to Papua New Guinea for about 2 months. We will be attending the 4 week Interface program with NTM. Interface also known as ITF is a 4 week college course education students about cross-cultural ministry specifically in tribal setting. We will also be visiting Coralee's sisters while we are there. After we leave PNG we head to Chili for about 4 days and then we go to Peru. We hope to visit some couples from our church who are working in Cusco and Tacna Peru. Jason also really wants to see Machu Pichu (sp?). After Peru we will be in Caracas, Venezuela for about 10 days visiting Jason's mentors the Barry's. Jason worked under then for about a year and a half and they have had a huge impact on his life. We are looking forward to seeing how things are going there. After that we head back to the USA.

So now everyone will know the game plan for the next part of our journey. We will try to continue to update our blog as we go provided we have access to a computer and the internet.

Thanks to everyone who has been praying for us as we have been traveling and making plans. We have seen God's hand in many things and want you all to know how much we appreciate your prayers.

Visiting NTM England

We have had a great time here in North Cotes, England. We have been at the Bible School and Missionary Training center for New Tribes Mission in England. It has been fun for Coralee to see family friends and it has been great to see how the program works and what all is invovled. We got here at the perfect time as all the students had just arrived for orrientation. So we sat in on the class overviews as well as some of the actual classes. We have learned a lot and now have a much better idea of what the training included.
The country is also very beautiful and so so green. The weather has also been perfect. Nice and cool with a nice breez. Its a great place for a training facility.
We are actually considering attending the one year Missionary Training course after our travels are over. So we may be back here in a year.

England: London

We've been in London for almost a week and things are all coming together. We've been able to get most of the ticketing details worked out and our Indian Visa should be ready on Friday. We've decided to cancel China due to expenses but are still so thankful and blessed to be doing any of this. DJ in Mozambique & Marissa in CCV Kenya wrote us back as well. They gave us the green light to visit early so we're so thankful that it wasn't a problem.

Coralee has been sick & coughing for almost a week but yesterday she started feeling good enough to get out. She was also getting tired of being cooped up in a small hotel room too I think.

We ended up seeing a lot of London yesterday! We went to the Parliament with Big Ben, Westminster Abby where we attended an evening song service. And last but not least we had a tour of the Buckingham Palace. Because it's the Queen's 80th Birthday they had a special exhibit of about 50 dresses as well as her jewellery. It was spectacular! Even I (Jason) was totally impressed. The diamonds were huge I didn't know diamonds could be that big!

We also went and saw Kensington Palace where they have a Princess Diana Memorial. Coralee loves Princess Diana and admires her heart for people. It was the 9th year since her death and many people had left flowers, photos & letters on the gate in front of the palace.

Today we went to Greenwich Observatory. This is where the International Time Meridian runs. We also saw an amazing museum on the History of the British Naval Empire. Tomorrow we are going to North Cotes to see the New Tribes Mission training school up there.

We return to London at 2:20 pm on a bus on Friday and the Indian Embassy closes at 4pm. So if there are any delays we will be stuck in London over the weekend. But if all goes well we will leave for Kenya on Saturday, Sept. 9th. So please keep us in your prayers as we are trying to keep costs down and get started on the next leg of the journey sooner.

England: London: Change of Plans

We just made it to London today. We were going to book our Round the World ticket today but at the British Airways counter the women asked us if we were sure we wanted to go to Turkey given all the news. We hadn't heard anything because we have been traveling for days. She told us that every single place we were planning to sight see there was bombed in Turkey! Istambul, Anatalya, Ismir & Marmaris and that it was the Western Tourists that were targeted. We were taken back by the whole thing and are changing our plans because they are likely going to try to continue attacking westerners.

This means that we are frantically having to e-mail our contacts in Kenya, Mozambique and Turkey and ask to change dates or cancel. We are in a holding pattern till we here back from them.

As for us we are wiped out and have been sleeping very little. Coralee has been sick and had a headache for about a week. She even lost her voice the last 3 days. It's starting to catch up with me too and I'm feeling feeverish as of this evening. I thnk we need rest but we have so much to do and only a short time to do it. Please keep us in your prayers.

Greece: Athens & Corinth

We tried to get on a train to Athens two days ago but they were all booked. They said that the second train that came an hour later would allow us to go on with our Eurail pass and we didn't have to book a seat reservation. So we took the risk and went for it. Although there were dozens of people standing and sitting in the isles in 2nd class, we had seats the whole way because all Eurail passes from the US are 1st Class!

When we got to Athens we mostly rested but we ended up staying up way too late watching a show on CNN "In the Footsteps of Bin Ladin." It was interesting and made us so disturbed that we prayed for an hour about the whole Muslim situation and how they want to Kill for God, sadly they are serving Satan of course!


The next day we toured the major sites of Athens. The Agora (Marketplace) was where Paul first preached in Athens after being rushed when his life was in danger when the angry mob of Jews in Berea. He started talking about Jesus in the Agora and eventually was brought before the Mars Hill Counsel of Philosophers. From there he gave his most intellectual sermon starting with the proclamation that he was going to tell them about the "Unknown God" that they had a monument made for. He says many famous verses in that speach: "...He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being.'... "In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent." Acts 17:26-30


It was great being able to tour these places and think about Paul having argued with them about the Gospel and Christ's resurrection! We also toured the most famous site the Acropolis (UpperCity) and the Parthenon (Temple to Athena).


We finally ate at a wonderful Greek resturant. They brought out 18 different dishes and we got to pick 5 that we liked with coke & dessert. It was one of the funnest meals we have eaten and the only nice meal since Prague so we really enjoyed it.

Coralee has been feeling a little sick to her stomach lately so we tried to get home before dark and rested vowing that we wouldn't stay up late again watching TV. We did of course but we just decided to wake up at 8 am instead of 6 am.


Today we went to Corinth. We toured the sites and you can still see the remains of the Platform that Paul would have spoken to the crowds in the Agora. It's about as amazing as Philipi. We missed the bus by 5 minutes and were then going to miss the last train for hours so we decided to take a Taxi. It was a Mercedes and they only charged about $2.50 more than the bus would have and we made the train and were home by 3:30 pm. We both decided we should nap and go out again to Mars Hill tonight to see the view of the city. Well I'm supposed to be napping right now but on my way to find a Gyro I thought I'd update the blog. Then I realized that I gave the camera to Coralee so I can't upload any photos yet. I'll try to do it soon since they are pretty cool ones.

Greece: Thessalonika

Well, the day seemed to start farely well. We were up at 4:30am and at the airport at 6am for our 7:30am flight from Milan to Athens. Well at about 7am the delays started. I think our flight was delayed about 10 times before our flight finally left at 1:30pm. We got to Athens at about 6pm but our day wasn't over yet. We still had a 6hr train ride to Thessaloniki. We had a 5 star hotel booked in Thessaloniki which was the best deal of our trip and the nicest place we were going to be staying at. We weren't sure if a train would even get us there that night or if we would just lose our reservation. Well, we finally made it to Thessaloniki at 1:30am. Because we arrived so late the hotel was already booked so they upgraded us to the Delux suite. It was sooooo nice. I think it was twice as big as our old house! It had everything from fingernail files to bath robes. It was great although we were so tired we just about passed out so we didn't get to enjoy all the amenities as much as we would have liked. It was fun none the less.


Today we visited Philipi. It was a 2 hour train ride followed by a 30min bus ride to get there. It was really neat. Jason had actually told me it wasn't really that impressive considering all that we had seen in Rome but I was almost more impressed then in Rome. There were hardly any tourists and it was just so neat to be at the location where Paul founded the first church in Europe. We had a really good day over all but are pretty tired now considering that its almost midnight and we are still tired from yesterdays travels.

Italy: Cinque Terre, Pisa & Siena

We found the most beautiful place in Italy. It's a coastal area in the North West on the Mediteranian Sea. There are five small towns on the cliffs with a hiking trail that connects all the towns. The whole area is a national park and one of the towns is in may famous photos when you think of the Italian cliff towns.


Then we went to Pisa on the way to Siena. Although we had heard that there wasn't much there we were impressed. It really is cool and really is leaning alot! I did have to hold up the tower for a picture though.


Finally we came to Siena, the walled midevil city near Florence. It was bigger then we thought and we were suprised to remember that we booked a 4 star hotel! We really loved the change of pace after staying in mostly budget hotels so far.
Siena was fun, we climbed the main tower in town for some great views and went on a tour of the Tuscan Wine Country. It's very beautiful just like we imagined Italy to be in the movies.

Right now we're in Florence on our way to Milan where we are flying to Greece tomorrow. We've only got 4 hours for Florence and we spent half in the internet cafe! We're not exactly art lovers I guess...

Geneva & Nice

Well, we spent 2 days in Geneva. It was the worst hotel we have been in so far. Because our hotel room was so smokey we decided to go to the theater and see Superman Returns. It was great to see something in English.
Other then that we were able to see the Red Cross HQ and the UN. It was really neat.
We only had one day there so it was pretty fast.


We then had and uneventful trip to Nice France. Nice was much dirtier then we had expected. We were both fighting head colds so we spent the first day resting in our hotel. Coralee didn't leave the hotel room all day. It was great to get rested up. We are both feeling pretty good now. We did see the Med and it was really pretty. The water was georgeous. We also saw Monaco. It was a really neat wealthy soverign state. Well gotta go times up.

Swiss Alps

We have just spent 3 spectucalar nights in one of the most beautiful places on Earth! We are staying in Interlaken in the Swiss Alps. We are completly surrounded by mountains even at our hotel. The first day we took the gondolas up to a tiny town in the mountains and hiked about 1000 feet to another town. The views were spectacular its the Matterhorn all around us. The only bummer is that its been clowdy and the mountains disappear.

Also it rained on us so we are a little sick. Coralee and I waited too long to put on our ponchos so we got fairly soaked!

We got so soaked that Coralee had to use the hand drier to dry off so she could get warm again.

The last full day there we walked along the valley floor by the cliffs and the waterfalls. We went into one falls that is unlike anything we have ever seen. It was a falls inside the mountain winding between the cracks all the way down it was truly amazing. We did get a few videos of the power of the water and from inside the caves.

Well the internet is $20 per hour here so my time is running out. On to Geneva and then to the French Riviera.

Czech Rep.: Prague

Now were in the city that Coralee most longed to see, Prague. Everyone has said it's the most beautiful city in Europe, maybe in the World and I think that they may be right...

It really is a lovely place. Because the Nazi's took over Czechslovokia by anexing it, Prague was never really bombed like many of the other cities were.

The main sites here are the Castle (The Biggest in the World), the old bridge from the 1300s, the old city square with cool churches and a clock tower, and the Jewish quarter. You know that there is a Jewish meuseum that was begun in 1942. The Nazi's began collecting Jewish artifacts from all over the country and were preparing to open the mesuem after they has extreminated all the jews as a keepsake of their memory. We were stunned!


Well our favorite thing here has been the food. Both days we skipped lunch and had early steak dinner at the Titanik Steak House. We only paid $25 each time and ate like kings it would have been $100 at Pomona Valley Mining Company and Coralee swears that it's the best steak she has ever eaten!

Well we've loved Prague and the people have been friendly except in the stores and booths. I think that Communism must have destroyed their desire to excel at work and just have bad attitudes while working. Everyone off work is nice, friendly & helpful but look out for the workers. But overal it has been really nice here. Coralee thinks that the nicest people have been in Austria. I agree and also think the French were the second nicest!

Well we leave at 9 am for Switzerland tomorrow. Our train doesn't arrive till 11pm tomorrow so we will have quite a trek tomorrow! We bought lots of peanuts & pretzels for the trip.