Heidelberg, Fireworks ,Oh MY!

Hello friends!
Thank you for taking the time to read about our life right now as we are learning new things and excited to share them with you, please feel free to ask questions, leave comments and the always needed prayer that we can see how we can honor God in what we are doing!

Having time throughout the day while the boys are in school has given us much needed time to prepare for our mission trip coming up very soon to Poland! We will be teaching (ah!!) a group of students from ages 14-19 English for a week. Working with a team from Colorado to spend time making relationships with these students and looking to share, serve and act out the love of Christ in everything we do. We are praying for opportunities to start conversations that stir up questions within these students hearts, that we will be able to teach english in a comprehensive and fun way so that they will learn english finally, that our team would be cohesive and have the same goals in mind in order to do what is best that glorifies our Lord.

So, a couple of weeks ago at church we had heard a rumor about a outstanding firework display in Heidelberg within the next few weeks. Intrigued we decided to do some further detective work and found out that indeed there was a firework show to remember the 3 times the Heidelberg castle burned down a long time ago (kind of ironic since they used fireworks to remember a fire it but never the less sounded awesome!).

This past weekend we took a train out to the beautiful city to visit the ancient castle and witness this amazing fire display along with our group of friends from church we were set for a great day. Starting out we climbed up the steep and seemingly never ending staircase toward the huge Schloss (castle), after walking around and perusing the ancient but beautiful grounds of the monument we walked back down the stairs (way easier than going up!) and to the cities main street.While having fellowship over lunch and ice cream we took our seats next to the river and across from the castle. Having an excellent view of both the city and castle with the lovely river as our reflecting spot to see the fireworks we watched in amazement at the stunning light and colors presented before us. The show was definitely worth the wait, effort and build up that had been given to us. We enjoyed all of the time spent in Heidelberg and getting to know our new friends even better while there.


Off to find adventure today!-xoxo

Paige and I at the top of the Heidelberg Castle

Heidelberg castle from the side bank of the river where we watched the fireworks.

Paige and friend Meleia on the train towards Heidelberg