Backpacking

Well kinda...I got the awesome opportunity to travel in country with a dear friend, Stacie, and live outta my polka-dot girly backpack for 5 days. Though we definitely did a lot of walking, there wasn't any hiking involved. My hair products and computer kinda weighed me down though. :) I got to experience an overnight train ride for the first time! Each train car has several compartments, and each compartment has 6 beds, 3 high side by side. The very bottom bunk has the most room, like you can actually sit up straight. I got some decent rest, even though there were some furocious snoorers around me. :)
I found BARBIE Uno in a foriegn toy store right before we left! So we kept ourselves entertained, along with the people around us! Imagine what these people were thinking with their only reference point for American card games being with a deck of Barbie Uno cards!

So here's a few pics from our journey & the peeps we met:

People from all over this city were coming to this spring to get water...

We asked this man if it was safe to drink the water straight from the spring, without boiling it, b/c we'd seen lots of people doing it...but his response made us laugh when he said the some people can, but that speaking truthfully he couldn't...guess ya know what that means!
These are keychains with LIVE fish!

Too cute!

And some cute grandpas!

Living Hope

I'm not even really sure where to begin or what to tell, but it's been an awesome month, and his mercies have been new every morning! These are a few last shots I got with my camera before it broke...

Thanks so much for the lifts!!! He's answering!!!