Our last week in Europe

Last week we took our final trip, this time to a week-long Christian conference ("New Wine") in Shepton Mallet, England. We camped with several other people from our church (and a few thousand people from other churches) and attended daily worship and seminars. It was a great way to end our time in Europe.

Here are some of our church group hanging out at the campsite:And since we camped in the "International Village" on the campsite, Josh and Henry put up an international flagpole.

Now that we're back in the Netherlands, we're saying goodbye to lots of good friends we've made over the past 15 months. Several of our friends took us out to lunch on Sunday. We've made many friends here, and that's the hardest part about leaving.This will be a busy week. The movers come Wednesday, we'll leave for Amsterdam on Thursday, and then we'll fly back to Iowa on Friday the 14th. We've been so caught up in life here in Holland that we haven't been able to update our blog as much as we'd like. It's been a great 15 months. But it will also be good to be back home in Iowa, and we're looking forward to seeing the family and friends that we left behind there.