“I’ll wait as my wings search for
the wind. I’ll wait till I see
your face again. I wish that we
could meet where the air is clear,
don’t have to worry for the ground
beneath our feet…. I’ll wait held captive to this earth.”
Andrea Marie Carr (“I wish that we could meet”)

See that photo up there? It’s a little piece of this song. I want to go there again… If only to breath the air and hear the cowbells…. I think it’s time I get a new camera… I’ve had a “Pro” flickr account since last May and haven’t been able to upload one new photo since the robbery! Ahhg! READ: How about a switch to Nikon? >>>>>>> Looks good to me.

[update] After conversing with the hordes on facebook… I think I have narrowed it down to 3 available options:
#1:

• Nokon D80 body
• 17-50mm Tamron
• 50MM for all around goodness… or

#2: If I can’t afford #1 I shall commence with #2….

• D80 kit with lens…

#3: If all else fails…

• Stick to the good ‘ol D60 (as mentioned above)

Ehh– Off to work!

Isaiah 64

1 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains would tremble before you!

2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze
and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name known to your enemies
and cause the nations to quake before you!

I am officially back in the states! Yes, I did miss a few days posting and many great things that happened near the end. But again, I have to write in inspiration or else it’s no fun. I’m out for some R&R.

We said goodbye to Jachiem yesterday afternoon after going to Lazurn (south of Basel). We should have been able to see the alps but it was raining and foggy! Oof. We did see the “saddest piece of stone known to man” however. (According to Mark Twain; it was a very famous stone sculpture in a natural rock face) After Lazurn we took off for Zurich to meet Andrea. It wasn’t raining in Zurich when we got in but it did last night and hasn’t stopped all day. We’ve spent the day indoors after visiting the local grocery store this morning for a brief moment.
The lentils are on the stove now and tonight we are going to a church meeting that Andrea is involved with. She also set up some prophetic times for the three of us. wuhu^^

I really don’t want this last week to just blast by without really taking note, opening my ears and paying attention. I think it would be to easy to simply feel “over saturated” and ignore what the Lord has for us and possible connections over the next 7 days.

It’s Monday morning on the 28th of May. We have been in Basel since Friday. Our time here has been.., appropriate. Our time has come that we must make our move and head for Zurich via Luzern (To see some swiss mountains) Okay.. we can do this. I think Shane came in last night at about 5:30am from a ‘concert’ of sorts; i chose not to attend.

This article is great if you like movie reviews: Pirates 3 – At Worlds End – ArmyTimes

I should also recommend you read a thing or two from this Blog.. It’s inspiring.

||Pics From Karlsruhe and the Black Forest||

Today was the highlight of Karlsruhe. Me and shane decided to head for the Black Forest. We found a tram that left at 11am – it took about two hours to get there. I enjoyed the beautiful scenic route. The train took us to the main train station inside one of the many small towns that scatter the countryside—from what we could see the forest was somewhere out there but too far to walk so we asked around till we found out that we had to head to the tourist office a few bus stops away.

Once we did all that and had an English (thank heavens) guide paper (that was actually translated from German and very vague) we bumbled around some small side streets until we found the path that lead into the unknown, the unforeseen, the deep, dark, black forest… it was such a crazy beautiful day. The Lord blessed our socks off. We walked 5KM of the 26km hike (Don’t say it because I know what you’re thinking… hehe)
It took about one and a half hours to walk to make to the first village, a very quiet and small street that had one hotel and several old beautiful houses in the midst of tall green grass. Once we found the only bus stop and checked the times of operation we became aware that the bus only came every two hours and we had just missed it but what seemed about 3 minutes!
We walked down a little further wondering if we should continue the 26km guided tour of wilderness as *BOOM* thunder cracked from the sky. We looked up and saw huge black clouds moving our way. We had two options: Run all the way back to the train station with our tails between our legs protecting the $1200 camera or sit in the bus-stop hut and wait…

We chose to wait. It started raining… hard… it was warm, breezy and raining gigantic balls of water. I checked the bus schedule a second time and realized that I had read it wrong and that a bus was set to come in about 10 minutes. We decided to wait for that and ate our only source of nutrition for the entire journey: A 200g bag of ‘trail mix’. After ten minutes the bus still didn’t come… and still didn’t come. “Well, should we walk?” The rain had stopped for the moment and we thought maybe we could make the window. However I knew that the dry spell wouldn’t last long because the thunder continued to boom overhead. “Let’s hitchhike” Shane stuck out his thumb; the guy only looked at us and kept driving! What an outrage… Then an engine could be heard… I knew it! It was the Lord! Before we could even see it I said “It’s the bus! Thank you God!” And lo-and-behold there she came around the corner…

It only took 10min to get all the back into town. (These German’s drive like maniacs; especially when it’s raining and they’re driving a 73’, 40,000lb super bus.) It was still raining when we got into town and we had a few minutes until our train came so we decided to spend some mullah and get some food…

In Germany every good restaurant is a bar, AND a café. So we chose one from the 4 immediately available to us and sat down. When the waitress came we asked if she spoke English, all she said was “Oh nooooo!” She walked away and then returned with some guy that had silver teeth, a go-tee and some rad square glasses came to our table, “She is a very nice girl, (I guess he was trying to excuse her lack of English skills) “what would you like to drink? Alcoholics?” Me and Shane looked at each other, “Uh, can we see a menu?” He didn’t understand, “We want to eat”. That got him on the right page, “OH! Food! Yes, we only have 1 meal tonight.”
And it goes on… We ordered what he called a snittzle. It tasted like shittzle—it was a heavily deep fried piece of pork, I think. And some pommes frites that would have made McDonalds blush. Sometimes you just gotta pray and don’t ask questions…

Just a day in the life you know? We made it back alive albeit dead dog tired. I called Andrea Sonnenschein this evening and she said we could come on Monday! We are going to Basel to stay with a guy we met off MySpace (Don’t know his name, honestly) for a few days and then we’ll be in Zurich with Andrea till the 31st and then to Italy!

michaelcarr