Highlights
• Sunny days and vigorous walks during our month in Egypt between Kuwait and Sri Lanka
• Yoder Family time in July, my niece Kimberly’s wedding, my great niece Caitlin Mae’s birth
• Gravelin Family time in July, Bob's brother Todd’s 25th anniversary, Bob's great nephew Levi’s birth
• Bob walking the Camino de Santiago in the Spring
• Bob learning to walk again after our accident and his broken leg
• My brother-in-law Mike Leininger coming to help us out after our accident
• The support of our parents, siblings, and friends back home during our days of recuperation
• The amazing animal kingdom we have experienced—snorkeling with sharks, hearing elephants in our backyard at night, seeing unusually large bats, watching a snake eat several frogs trapped in the electric meter box, observing monkeys and peacocks on a daily basis, bird watching
• The sounds of the jungle outside our windows
• Eating the largest and most delicious fresh water prawns ever
• Our trip to the Maldives for work—coral beaches, fish BBQs, motorcycle rides on the islands
• Meeting wonderful people wherever we go, and sometimes meeting kindred spirits
• Reading Charles Frazier, Ann Patchett, Robert Knox, Stephen King, and Bessie King Yoder, to name a few
• Watching “The Way,” “War Horse,” “One Day,” and, to name a few
Lowlights
• Bob breaking his leg, being laid up for three months, and all that a broken leg means in a person's life
• Broken ribs—I couldn’t breathe, cough, sneeze, bend, lift, sleep on my side, or help Bob
• The most amazing hospital experience we’ve ever had
• Three months with no breeze, six months with no rain
• Long evenings and sleepless nights (due to the above)
• Mold growing everywhere once the rainy season hit, with even higher humidity than before
• Power outages again and again and again and again
• Hauling our stuff all over the world again and again and again
• The unfathomable eco system inside our house—ants, beetles, centipedes, cockroaches, fleas, flies, flying termites, frogs, geckos, mosquitoes, moths, rats, scorpions, silverfish, spiders, ticks, tree frogs, wasps, and voluminous nameless bugs
• Understanding the expression “ants in my pants” in an all-too-real way
• The snake in the yard that slithered through Bob’s legs at what he says felt like 100 miles per hour
• Construction following us wherever we go
• Roads in disrepair and the difficulty of travel in Sri Lanka
• Missing my flight from Egypt to the States because I had Bob’s passport instead of my own
• Sunny days and vigorous walks during our month in Egypt between Kuwait and Sri Lanka
• Yoder Family time in July, my niece Kimberly’s wedding, my great niece Caitlin Mae’s birth
• Gravelin Family time in July, Bob's brother Todd’s 25th anniversary, Bob's great nephew Levi’s birth
• Bob walking the Camino de Santiago in the Spring
• Bob learning to walk again after our accident and his broken leg
• My brother-in-law Mike Leininger coming to help us out after our accident
• The support of our parents, siblings, and friends back home during our days of recuperation
• The amazing animal kingdom we have experienced—snorkeling with sharks, hearing elephants in our backyard at night, seeing unusually large bats, watching a snake eat several frogs trapped in the electric meter box, observing monkeys and peacocks on a daily basis, bird watching
• The sounds of the jungle outside our windows
• Eating the largest and most delicious fresh water prawns ever
• Our trip to the Maldives for work—coral beaches, fish BBQs, motorcycle rides on the islands
• Meeting wonderful people wherever we go, and sometimes meeting kindred spirits
• Reading Charles Frazier, Ann Patchett, Robert Knox, Stephen King, and Bessie King Yoder, to name a few
• Watching “The Way,” “War Horse,” “One Day,” and, to name a few
Lowlights
• Bob breaking his leg, being laid up for three months, and all that a broken leg means in a person's life
• Broken ribs—I couldn’t breathe, cough, sneeze, bend, lift, sleep on my side, or help Bob
• The most amazing hospital experience we’ve ever had
• Three months with no breeze, six months with no rain
• Long evenings and sleepless nights (due to the above)
• Mold growing everywhere once the rainy season hit, with even higher humidity than before
• Power outages again and again and again and again
• Hauling our stuff all over the world again and again and again
• The unfathomable eco system inside our house—ants, beetles, centipedes, cockroaches, fleas, flies, flying termites, frogs, geckos, mosquitoes, moths, rats, scorpions, silverfish, spiders, ticks, tree frogs, wasps, and voluminous nameless bugs
• Understanding the expression “ants in my pants” in an all-too-real way
• The snake in the yard that slithered through Bob’s legs at what he says felt like 100 miles per hour
• Construction following us wherever we go
• Roads in disrepair and the difficulty of travel in Sri Lanka
• Missing my flight from Egypt to the States because I had Bob’s passport instead of my own
Most interesting! Thanks for sharing all these.
ReplyDeleteBlessings on your travels - and thanks for allowing me to journey with you...
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