FINAL EUROPEAN POST

The Lord made it possible to make this trip after 4 years of not leaving Mexico.
We were very thankful for the opportunity that we had to finally go and see everyone again. In spite of the busy moments, and difficulties that traveling brings, we had a wonderful time.

In the previous posts you could see some of the beautiful places we were able to visit. We enjoyed it immensely. It was interesting how all these “homey” places were so familiar yet so changed and foreign all at the same time.

We would now like to take a moment to appreciate all the amazing people that we met along the way. (We don’t have all of you on picture , Sorry! But we love you and appreciate you jus the same.)

Some of you we’ve known forever, some for a shorter amount of time and a few are new friends, yet we love you all and treasure our friendship a lot.

Thank you all for your happy, generous, inspiring welcome, and help.

We pray that we will have a chance to meet again soon, wherever that will be destined.

We love you all! You have a special place in our hearts!!!

John and Sara (JD's parents)

Julie-Grace and Daniel Patrick (JD's sister and brother)

Honza and Jitka

Hana's brother and sister in law and our families.

Hana's step dad.

Tina (JD's sister)

Kathy and us.

Dave, Kathy and I

Mira, Honza, Jana, Petr

Rafe and Andrew

Jennie

Kaylee and Andrew

Hana and Petra

Roman, Bara with Filipek and Brendon in buggy.

Robert

Zuzka and I

Ralf

Charity

Andrew, Marie and family

Melody and Zack

Before we left for The Frankfurt airport we stayed with my sister and her daughter Amanda in Ansbach, Germany. It is a beautiful little city with a lot of German history. It was an enjoyable stay and it was nice to see my sister again after four years. Thanks Tina for making our stay a happy one. We love you and Mandy dearly!

ZLIN

When we had gone to the Czech Republic we had really wanted to visit Hana's brother in Zlin, which is south of Prague near the Slovak border. One of the highlighs we were looking forward to was the cottage her sister in-law's father had. It's a quaint little thing that is protected by law for its historical value. So the bottom floor is not to be changed or remodeled. So it has some of its old character left. The top floor and stables were "touchable" so "touch them up" he did. I wasnt able to take pictures of them but the top floor was the perfect place for Ikea to have taken a foto-shoot, and the stables were turned into a gym-sauna-jacuzzi!

Anyway, definilty a place we did not want to miss on our European excursion!

The kids with their two cousins (to the left).

Hana smelling the fresh cut tree bark that was strewn on top of the flower beds to protect the buds form the frost. The entire place smelled of freshly hewn pine--a smell we missed, living on an ocean front.

The Kitchen.

The old stone oven.

The living room.

And the front entrance.

And las but not least some pictures of the country side. It was beautiful!

This Blog will be mainly pictures taken of our visit to the national museum in Prague! To enjoy the beauty of the architecture please feel free to click on the image to get a better look. Some of it is really awe inspiring! I think we adults enjoyed the building more then we did the relics within! HA! I do think the kids enjoyed it though! It was rather amusing to see them look at all the different things that one small country can hold. For its population of 10,000,000 +/- the Czech Republic holds some magnificent findings and awesome sights! Definitely a recommended stop for anyone planning a trip around Europe!