We made it!  We are back home now.  The trip was wonderful.  I don't know how I had the strength.  I think it is was 99% Jehovah's Holy Spirit and 1% working out every day to be physically strong enough to manage the trip.  Maybe it was less than 1%.  Or maybe... because I worked out, Jehovah was able to help me manage it.  But I have to say, I never felt so relaxed in my life, on a trip.  Even driving through 6 lanes of traffic, even when we were in creepy places like Hollywood.  It really didn't matter, I felt relaxed.  Granted there were a few little thinks that made me a bit nervous, but only for a few minutes and then I was fine.  I have to hand that to Jehovah.  Because all these months of planning this trip, I was worried about not being able to relax on the trip.  So all went well.  Now I have some organizing to do of the pictures and as soon as I am able, I will post pics on my trip page.

So of all the things we saw, we have to say the most impressive and most amazing, were the things created by Jehovah.  These were the things, that took our breath away.  Everything else paled by comparison.  A huge focus of our trip was the Special Assembly Day.  Wow, it so encouraging.  I can't wait to hear it again in the fall.  There was a great focus on encouraging those who suffer with anxiety, depression and emotional pain, to not be judgmental, but supportive.  It was wonderful.


We started a game... we saw a mini cooper and Steph & I started talking in a baby voice about how cute the mini cooper was, and we took a picture.  Then we saw another, and took a picture and and and the game was on!  By this point, when we met up with our friends, they wanted to know why we liked them so much, and we explained, it was more a game, like "where's waldo" and not that we liked them so much, just that we got hooked on taking a pic if we saw one.  Then they became hooked, and I have no idea how many we took pictures of, but it is alot!  We are so easily amused.