Rome-finally!!

After be at a Barcelona square for an hour late last night (protesting going on) we made it to the airport around three am! We slept for an hour, sorta before we prepared for our six am flight. We made it to our hostel at ten but couldn't nap till two. So tired! Everything is great so far! Be home soon.

Xoxo

All nighter

Jeremiah and I are going to stay up all night to catch an early flight to Rome. Our flight isnt until 6am, but because of public transportation we are going to leave our hostel around 1:30 this morning and hang out at the airport. umm.. yeah.

We have a good stay in Barcelona.

Today, we went to the Picasso museum... which was lovely and went into some stores... yeah!

I am so excited to be going to Rome, I can not wait. I think Jeremiah enjoyed his stay in Barcelona, and we will hopefully be able to come back and speak the language a bit better! :)

Well, thatś the update for now. Talk soon.

Sending more love towards Joplin! xoxox

Barcelona...

Well tried to get Jeremiah to update, but he doesn want to. So now he rolls his eyes at me!

We are in Barcelona the rest of today, and then two more full days and then leave on the 28th EARLY in the morning.

We have already gone to the beach and are currently trying to figure out our plans for the rest of our stay.

Great place, and we have lots of pictures to share.

We are writing in our journals as well and will type those out when we get back to the states, when we have time... everything is up in the air (at one point, literally, it was).

Thatś all for now. Please keep Joplin, MO in your thoughts and prayers. The clean up has only begun.

Update.... News....

I am sorry we have not updated for a while. We have to pay for the internet at our hostel in Paris.

Yesterday, Monady the 23rd we left London early in the morning, rode the eurostar to Paris!!! It is now late evening tuesday the 24th. We were at the Eiffel Tower today when a Texas family informed us of our town.

Usually I don't recommend sharing information online. But we live really close to Joplin. Please keep them in your prayers, when we get home there is going to be a lot of huggs to give out. I think our friends and family are safe, at least the ones we have reached. Our house is still there, but I think my mom is going to share it with those that have lost their house. Okay with me! That is all we can do half way across the world.

Tomorrow morning we leave for Barcelona by plane. Hopefully we will be able to get online more frequently there.

We are safe, please do not worry about us. We will be home in a week, take care of those around you.

Love <3
M and J

yeah for cell phones and wifi

Finally thought to use our phone. Got the wifi to work! See if I can upload pictures or not. About to go with David and Chris to see where TIME starts. Haha! So pictured on here!

day two

Again, sorry for all the typos. We will type out our trip when we are home. We have beEn walking a lot. Got to see a bunch of great things. Pictures sure have. Met some cool people started a fire alarm with my burnt toast and jam. Bwwhaaaahaaa. Over paid for a braclet. Live and learn. Options, look into them. Love our neighborhood,have figured out the tube!

first day...

First, i apolgioze for the many errors, i am on our ereader and it is a challenge. We aresafe and at our hostel.very tired and ready forbed. Pictures and stories will come soon. Love you all . Learning and loving a lot!

Weather:

Weather Bug:
London (May 20-23rd) Highs 65-70, chance of rain on one day.
Paris (May 23-25th) Highs 65-75, chance of rain on one day.
Barcelona (May 25-28th) Highs 70-75, sunshine!
Rome (May 28-31st) Averages high 75-80, sunshine!
Bern (May 31-June 2nd) Averages mid 60's, sunshine rine!

Looks like great weather.
I think it will be a great trip. As long as we get up in time! Oh sleep, I need thee sleep right now.

I can't believe we leave in 48 hours! We are now counting down hours! We haven't really packed yet. Laundry is done, our office room is covered with our "supplies" but nothing is actually in the bag yet.

Money.... We leave in 8 days!

Money has been something for me to think about, as of late. Whether we should take our debit card or our credit card or what. Talking to a friend at work she gave me the idea of prepaid cards, like Visa. Visa does offer a varitey of cards (gift, travelmoney, etc). However, after reading this article: http://europeforvisitors.com/europe/articles/amex-travelfunds-visa-travelmoney-cards.htm I relizd that it might be best for us to just take our cards, proof of identity at least and so forth.

I can't believe we leave in 8 days. Seems so unreal and just a bit crazy! I told Jeremiah the other night that I'm not only looking forward to the trip but to sleeping on the plane! It will be a trip of a life time for sure! Getting finished with finals, going on a major trip, starting a family (if in God's plan), and working for fun!

Update later!

What... like two weeks!

Some things I still want to research and need to do before we leave:

Currency
Metro/bus/local transportation
Packing.... too many clothes!
What are we going to do? Free stuff.. heck yes!
COPIES OF ALL DOCUMENTS
Make ISIC cards.

I am a little more at easy with the fact that we have purchased/selected/nailed down our flights and hostels.