For those of you wondering if we have been stuck somewhere on the TransAmazon Highway for the past few days, we were only stuck for about 5 hours. We jumped right into moving into our new house as soon as we got back. In fact, after arriving around 3:00 am, Brin was up at 7:30 packing stuff and getting ready to move. She did, however, hit the wall about 12 hours later (not literally).
The highlight of our adventure on the way home had to have been the delay we experienced about 2 hours from home when we came upon a stretch of road where 3 trucks were stuck in the mud (it was nighttime so no pictures). We thought we were going to have to spend the night on the road, but fortunately they were able to move one of the trucks and allow for some vehicles to squeeze by. So, after 55 hours in a bus we were glad to finally be home. Thanks to all of you that helped with our language school expenses, and especially for all the prayers.
We are now in the midst of our 3rd move (that I can remember) since we’ve been in Brazil. We keep filling in for missionary families that are home on furlough. But now we hope to be in this house until we leave for furlough, probably this summer. Moving, in any culture, has it’s stressful moments, but here it seems to remind us again that we must change our expectations of how efficiently things should run. I think we’ve somewhat begun to learn from our past experiences, because this time our “moving day” has turned into our “moving week”. It’s good that we’ve lowered our standards, however it has made for more moments when we wonder aloud “did I bring that to the new house yet? And if so, what box is it in?”.
So right now we are in that limbo-state... some stuff is in our new house, some stuff is in our old house. We are without internet, but the lights are on. I fixed the drain in the shower, but haven’t hung the curtain in our master bedroom. We do like our new house though. It gives us plenty of room, it’s in an ideal location and we are looking forward to making it home.
Here are a few pictures of our new digs:
View from our front porch
5 comments:
What an exciting and adventurous life you lead! So nice to take a peek into here via your blog.
Glad to hear you are back safely. Dad P
Guys, those bunk beds do not seem very firmly attached. Would you please look into that! So glad you are back safely. Hugs, Junia (Japan)
Can you really tell they aren't attached well from a picture? I hear Josh is very handy, I am sure they are sturdy.
Brin-
Your house looks very adorable. I love the kitchen set up from what I can see. Is your washer out side? I want to see your backyard. Are you going to change the wall colors Or leave them? How about I'll e-mail you:) It looks like an awesome home!
Love Jo
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