Hello from Croatia! This morning Dan and I woke up to the beautiful seaside town of Split, Croatia. Today we will tour Dioclean's palace who was a Roman emperor in the late 200 AD. He was known like Nero for his cruelty towards Christians and people did not mourn him when he died. His beloved palace is now in ruins and I will take some pleasure in seeing this man's life work decaying while the gospel of Jesus Christ lives on.
We had a bit of a rough start to our trip. Our third plane in Chicago broke down and delayed us over three hours which meant we missed our plane from Rome to Venice. Dan worked a miracle and got United to book us on a later Al Italia flight. We were quite tired that first night and I fell asleep in Venice to the sound of 1000 year old church bells ringing in the distance, Venice is quite an amazing place. It is like Disneyland only real. I kept trying to imagine what it was like in its golden age with mask balls everynight and all the upper class parading around in their fancy clothes and wigs. We saw where Mark (from the Bible) is supposedly buried. Ah there is so much history it is wonderful taking it all in!
We got on our boat and have slept here two of our tweleve nights so far. WE LOVE CRUISING!!! It is so exciting to wake up to a new city every morning. We will be in Athens next. Well thanks for praying for our safe travels. Our luggage made it fine too! We miss you all and hope you are doing well.
Love, the Shacks
p.s. Our Snowflakes coordinator says that our embies will ship on August 30th! They will make it to California before we do!!! Yea!
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6 comments:
Awesome!!! I can't wait to see your pictures. I would love to do that someday! Enjoy your trip!
I am so glad you are having a great time. I had poor "Flat Stanley" on my desk to mail to you, but alas, he is still on my desk...
We will all follow your trip definitely and have the kids still learn geography as you travel!
That is sooooo great about your babies arriving in CA so soon!! We are looking to have an Oct. transfer. So I pray we can be PG together!!!
I can't wait for the next trip update!
Yay!!! I LOVE reading about your trip - it makes me wish I could be there with you guys! (and it's great to hear that you've both taken to Cruising so well!)
I, too, can't wait to see pictures and I hope you both continue to have the best vacation EVER!
And what a pleasant surprise to hear that the Embies will beat you back... what a wonderful gift to come home to :)
Much love - miss you both!
Love hearing about the trip. Keep us posted. I can't believe those babies are coming. So excited. By the way, don't know if you heard that Joe and Kristy are having another boy. We are definitely on some kind of streak. Maybe the Shacks will have the first girls. Love you guys. Have fun.
Awesome update Elizabeth. It's so fun to hear about your trip and so exciting to hear about your embies. Lots of love, Kathryn
when will you be home? I miss you! : )
I can't wait to hear (& see) all about the trip!
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