but we do miss life on board the ship and all our friends there!!!
We arrived home in Norway safely after a good flight from Barbados and a 2 week stay in the Netherlands. It is good to be home in our own place, good to see our friends again, good to visit our own church and good to sleep in our own beds ;-)
BUT... we had a great time on board the Logos II and definitely miss it!
We're now still unpacking the boxes that were stored during our trip, which is hard to get ourselves motivated for, since the weather here has been great since we came home!
Just a little while after we came home, Leon (who we met on the Logos II) and his friend Tineke, visited us. We had a nice time with them, played a lot of games.
After they left, Herberts parents came to visit us. They will be here for 2 more days before they return home. They've been on the beach with the kids and have been on outings by themselves.
In 2 days from now, Reka (also from the Logos II) is moving to Norway!!! That's so exciting. We're looking very much forward to having her around.
We didn't tell the kids yet, and we hope the surprise will be biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig :-))
All the kids really like Reka a lot when we were on the ship, she was with us on many of our outing and we had great fun together. I think the kids are going to love the idea of having her around!
Bedtime now! Goodnight
Aug 5, 2008
Jun 8, 2008
Heading towards the last island
And like with most of the things, will also this trip come to an end. After living on our floating home, we're almost heading home again.
In an hour from now we'll sail from St.Lucia to Barbados.
On wednesday, the 11th, we'll fly from Barbados to Curacao and from there continue to Amsterdam. We'll then stay in the Netherlands until the 2nd of July and then finally fly home to Norway.
We look forward to finally going home again, but it is with mixed feelings we say goodbye to all our dear friends on board.
Some of them we might not see again, some of them we'll definitely keep in touch with.
It's actually a bit strange to think about leaving the Logos II... this has been our home for the last 4 months, we're now used to the community life, always having friends around to talk to, always somebody around to have a cup of coffee with... I'm afraid I might feel lonely back home in Norway :-(
But, I do miss my friends at home and look forward to see them again! So it's time for us to leave the ship and find back our life in Figgjo.
We definitely think we've changed and our lifes will be different after we come back.
I'm sorry for not writing so much lately. Ask us and we'll tell you everything about our time here!
In Barbados, we'll probably not have internet the first couple of days (we'll arrive around lunchtime monday) and since we leave on wednesday early in the morning, I don't think I'll have another possibility to write on this blog.
God bless you!
Van Vliet family
With love
In an hour from now we'll sail from St.Lucia to Barbados.
On wednesday, the 11th, we'll fly from Barbados to Curacao and from there continue to Amsterdam. We'll then stay in the Netherlands until the 2nd of July and then finally fly home to Norway.
We look forward to finally going home again, but it is with mixed feelings we say goodbye to all our dear friends on board.
Some of them we might not see again, some of them we'll definitely keep in touch with.
It's actually a bit strange to think about leaving the Logos II... this has been our home for the last 4 months, we're now used to the community life, always having friends around to talk to, always somebody around to have a cup of coffee with... I'm afraid I might feel lonely back home in Norway :-(
But, I do miss my friends at home and look forward to see them again! So it's time for us to leave the ship and find back our life in Figgjo.
We definitely think we've changed and our lifes will be different after we come back.
I'm sorry for not writing so much lately. Ask us and we'll tell you everything about our time here!
In Barbados, we'll probably not have internet the first couple of days (we'll arrive around lunchtime monday) and since we leave on wednesday early in the morning, I don't think I'll have another possibility to write on this blog.
God bless you!
Van Vliet family
With love
May 10, 2008
ships life
Got a question about how life on board is... that's a good one.
Hm.. lets give it a try.
So far we like most parts of living on the ship. Of course, there's not a lot of privacy here... or lets say NO privacy.
Yes, we do have our own cabin, but every friday is cabin inspection, which basically means that a couple of people that are assigned to do cabin inspection can go into your cabin and check if everything is clean and tidy. The reason they do this is to make sure it's safe and for hygienic reasons (like no food or drinks that are open, so they attract all kinds of bugs). That is understandable, you don't want all kinds of stuff crawling around on the floors of the ship, but what I personally think is wrong is that f.ex. one of our friends got a note in her cabin that they had been there for cabin inspection and she got a 4 (on a scale 1-5 of which 5 is the worst) because she hadn't made her bed!!!!! Her cabin was clean and normal tidy, just her bed was not made, what a nonsense.
So far we haven't had a note in our cabin yet, so either they haven't been here or it was clean enough, which I doubt, since our bed isn't made most of the time and lots of toys normally are on the floor.
So, the only private place we have (our cabin) isn't really private either, since anybody with a master key could walk in whenever they 'want' or feel they need to do an inspection.
Next, we always have to wear shoes everywhere we go. Which is not easy for this family, as 5 out of the 6 members of our family normally are barefoot. The big kids and the mommy have already got used to wear shoes, but Krister kicks his shoes off wherever and whenever he wants, so we are often looking for his shoes and if we do find them, it's still a challenge to make him put them on, he's like mom.. doesn't like anything on his feet.
The next challenge is ALWAYS having people around you and having to work with people you just don't match with. It's a fact that you just can't be friends with everybody, although we try, but some people are just a bit harder to get along with then others.
Do you know the DISC system? If not, check here. In the DISC-system Herbert is a high D, and high D's often have problems working together with a high C. If you know this system and know what you and your colleagues are, it's actually easier to deal with it, because you know why there are struggles getting along.
Fortunately we get along with most people on board, there's just a few we haven't really talked or socialized with, and I can only think of 1 person actually who we really don't get along with and who I think doesn't like us either. But I know there are more people on board having issues with this person, so I know it's not just us.
A possitive thing, which - when we leave - will turn into something 'negative' is that we now have a couple of really great new friends, who we have to say goodbye to soon :-(((
I'm really going to miss a couple of people here, I'd just wish I could take some of them home!
For me there's also the challenge of being a fulltime mom on a ship. At home it's not always easy to be an @home mom, but at least I got to go out visiting friends, go shopping, having friends over, kids having their own friends and toys, me having my things to do in our home, Herbert being around a lot so I could go out without taking all the kids if I need to.
Here I'm even more fulltime mom than at home.
With Herbert working 6 days a week and us having a family day on his day off, it doesn't give me much 'time off'. On most islands I can't go out alone with the kids because of the safety. And, I don't even think I want to go out by myself with the kids, because it's quite a lot of work going to a beach for example with 4 kids, so that makes it more a outing for them and not so much for me. Easier for me to just stay on the ship.
Another thing is that I always need to be 'around'. The kids can't really go anywhere without me being there. Marthe and Eskil can go to the dining room or Herberts office without me, but
Krister has to stay with me, unless Marthe or Eskil is staying with him.
And then Bente, who we always have to take with us everywhere. I don't have a playpen or something to put her in, just on the fundeck where we have a bed she can lay down and play in.
Ofcourse I can put her on the floor, but she is rolling over a lot, so I have to stay close to make sure she doesn't hurt herself.
So most of the time... wherever I want to go, it means dragging the kids with me up and down the stairs. Even going to the bathroom can be hard, since Krister will normally follow me. Good thing Marthe and Eskil are big enough to take care of their baby sister for a little while if I have to do something.
The last 2 weeks have been easier for me, since a new chief mate with his wife arrived, and the wife (Eveline) loves being with the kids and has done school with them every morning from 9.30 - 12.00. She takes all the kids to the fundeck, where the little ones can play (Krister and Jean-Mari), Marthe and Eskil do homework and learn english from Eveline, and Bente plays and sleeps in her bed there.
The kids like Eveline, and she has already teached Krister some colours in english. Some days ago Krister showed me a blue pencil and told me that it was blue! In english! And yesterday he asked me in dutch-english "mama, waar is de yellow nou?" which means.. "mama, where is the yellow?" saying the word yellow in english, since he doesn't even know the colours in dutch or norwegian :-)
An everyday sentence for Krister now is also: "Jean-Mari, come on!" and since Jamaica he says things like "Ja mon!" :-)
So, with the kids in school in the mornings, I can do other things. I either help out in the bookfair, help out in the laundry, or do ministry like school programs.
This really makes life on board the ship a little less boring, because I've really had some days I wanted to go home.
Other challenges:
* family time when you live together with 90 other persons
* time as a couple when having 4 children and Herbert often working evening shift and having the cabin (where 2 small children are asleep) as your only private place.
* church.... we miss our own church! the churches here are just... well... different. In which different means: loud, bad quality music, looooooooooong meetings and just not our style. We would want to go to church every sunday, but just don't always have the energy to go there, but rather just stay on the ship having a quiet brunch when everybody else is in church.
* being on the ship without really having a possibility to go off without anybody else joining because of crime on the islands.
* trying to keep our cabin tidy when everything we own is in this cabin which has the size of a bedroom.
* entertaining the kids without friends their age around
* trying not to complain about the food :-) Our cook is really creative, but we have so few ingredients on board, so after 3 months on the ship we'd really really like something else to eat.
Then, something we're looking forward to. Tomorrow... sunday... we'll go to church and after church an indian family with 2 girls (12 and 9) from that church is taking us home with them, serving us indian food and spend time with us and giving the kids an opportunity to play together.
We haven't met them yet, the pastor of their church was here a couple of days ago and he arranged it after I spoke to him about us wanting to meet a local family with kids the same age.
Have a good and blessed sunday!
Hm.. lets give it a try.
So far we like most parts of living on the ship. Of course, there's not a lot of privacy here... or lets say NO privacy.
Yes, we do have our own cabin, but every friday is cabin inspection, which basically means that a couple of people that are assigned to do cabin inspection can go into your cabin and check if everything is clean and tidy. The reason they do this is to make sure it's safe and for hygienic reasons (like no food or drinks that are open, so they attract all kinds of bugs). That is understandable, you don't want all kinds of stuff crawling around on the floors of the ship, but what I personally think is wrong is that f.ex. one of our friends got a note in her cabin that they had been there for cabin inspection and she got a 4 (on a scale 1-5 of which 5 is the worst) because she hadn't made her bed!!!!! Her cabin was clean and normal tidy, just her bed was not made, what a nonsense.
So far we haven't had a note in our cabin yet, so either they haven't been here or it was clean enough, which I doubt, since our bed isn't made most of the time and lots of toys normally are on the floor.
So, the only private place we have (our cabin) isn't really private either, since anybody with a master key could walk in whenever they 'want' or feel they need to do an inspection.
Next, we always have to wear shoes everywhere we go. Which is not easy for this family, as 5 out of the 6 members of our family normally are barefoot. The big kids and the mommy have already got used to wear shoes, but Krister kicks his shoes off wherever and whenever he wants, so we are often looking for his shoes and if we do find them, it's still a challenge to make him put them on, he's like mom.. doesn't like anything on his feet.
The next challenge is ALWAYS having people around you and having to work with people you just don't match with. It's a fact that you just can't be friends with everybody, although we try, but some people are just a bit harder to get along with then others.
Do you know the DISC system? If not, check here. In the DISC-system Herbert is a high D, and high D's often have problems working together with a high C. If you know this system and know what you and your colleagues are, it's actually easier to deal with it, because you know why there are struggles getting along.
Fortunately we get along with most people on board, there's just a few we haven't really talked or socialized with, and I can only think of 1 person actually who we really don't get along with and who I think doesn't like us either. But I know there are more people on board having issues with this person, so I know it's not just us.
A possitive thing, which - when we leave - will turn into something 'negative' is that we now have a couple of really great new friends, who we have to say goodbye to soon :-(((
I'm really going to miss a couple of people here, I'd just wish I could take some of them home!
For me there's also the challenge of being a fulltime mom on a ship. At home it's not always easy to be an @home mom, but at least I got to go out visiting friends, go shopping, having friends over, kids having their own friends and toys, me having my things to do in our home, Herbert being around a lot so I could go out without taking all the kids if I need to.
Here I'm even more fulltime mom than at home.
With Herbert working 6 days a week and us having a family day on his day off, it doesn't give me much 'time off'. On most islands I can't go out alone with the kids because of the safety. And, I don't even think I want to go out by myself with the kids, because it's quite a lot of work going to a beach for example with 4 kids, so that makes it more a outing for them and not so much for me. Easier for me to just stay on the ship.
Another thing is that I always need to be 'around'. The kids can't really go anywhere without me being there. Marthe and Eskil can go to the dining room or Herberts office without me, but
Krister has to stay with me, unless Marthe or Eskil is staying with him.
And then Bente, who we always have to take with us everywhere. I don't have a playpen or something to put her in, just on the fundeck where we have a bed she can lay down and play in.
Ofcourse I can put her on the floor, but she is rolling over a lot, so I have to stay close to make sure she doesn't hurt herself.
So most of the time... wherever I want to go, it means dragging the kids with me up and down the stairs. Even going to the bathroom can be hard, since Krister will normally follow me. Good thing Marthe and Eskil are big enough to take care of their baby sister for a little while if I have to do something.
The last 2 weeks have been easier for me, since a new chief mate with his wife arrived, and the wife (Eveline) loves being with the kids and has done school with them every morning from 9.30 - 12.00. She takes all the kids to the fundeck, where the little ones can play (Krister and Jean-Mari), Marthe and Eskil do homework and learn english from Eveline, and Bente plays and sleeps in her bed there.
The kids like Eveline, and she has already teached Krister some colours in english. Some days ago Krister showed me a blue pencil and told me that it was blue! In english! And yesterday he asked me in dutch-english "mama, waar is de yellow nou?" which means.. "mama, where is the yellow?" saying the word yellow in english, since he doesn't even know the colours in dutch or norwegian :-)
An everyday sentence for Krister now is also: "Jean-Mari, come on!" and since Jamaica he says things like "Ja mon!" :-)
So, with the kids in school in the mornings, I can do other things. I either help out in the bookfair, help out in the laundry, or do ministry like school programs.
This really makes life on board the ship a little less boring, because I've really had some days I wanted to go home.
Other challenges:
* family time when you live together with 90 other persons
* time as a couple when having 4 children and Herbert often working evening shift and having the cabin (where 2 small children are asleep) as your only private place.
* church.... we miss our own church! the churches here are just... well... different. In which different means: loud, bad quality music, looooooooooong meetings and just not our style. We would want to go to church every sunday, but just don't always have the energy to go there, but rather just stay on the ship having a quiet brunch when everybody else is in church.
* being on the ship without really having a possibility to go off without anybody else joining because of crime on the islands.
* trying to keep our cabin tidy when everything we own is in this cabin which has the size of a bedroom.
* entertaining the kids without friends their age around
* trying not to complain about the food :-) Our cook is really creative, but we have so few ingredients on board, so after 3 months on the ship we'd really really like something else to eat.
Then, something we're looking forward to. Tomorrow... sunday... we'll go to church and after church an indian family with 2 girls (12 and 9) from that church is taking us home with them, serving us indian food and spend time with us and giving the kids an opportunity to play together.
We haven't met them yet, the pastor of their church was here a couple of days ago and he arranged it after I spoke to him about us wanting to meet a local family with kids the same age.
Have a good and blessed sunday!
May 8, 2008
ice ice and more ice
This afternoon, going for a walk, we discovered an ice cream bar with just the best ice cream ever :-)
They have lots to choose from, and it's hard to choose since it all looks delicious.
They have flavours like 'chocolate chip', 'white chocolate', 'belgian chocolate', 'chocolate & coconut', 'walnut & hazelnut', mocca, pistache and many more. Also all kinds of sorbets, like strawberry, mango, passion fruit etc.
They also have milkshakes, different kinds of coffee, cakes and home made chocolates.
So we had an ice cream and enjoyed it outside. I'm afraid we often have to go back there, especially since it's only a 1 minute walk from the ship.
That was just it for today, nothing very exiting really.
Oh, almost forgot... this morning was the official opening of the bookfair on this island and we had a lot of VIP's. I was helping out serving and talking to people. Some of us had their national costumes with them, I don't even have a national costume, besides my wooden shoes, but I decided not te wear them, since it looks kind of stupid under a nice asian looking dress :-)))
We had costumes from Russia, Asia, Indonesia (2), Dominican Republic and Scotland.
Gotta go now. We're having prayer night upstairs. The big kids are already there, the little ones are in bed and it looks like they are asleep.
My biggest kid (Herbert) fell asleep as well :-)))
Tonight after prayer night we have a babysitter, so we're going for a walk with 2 of our friends.
They have lots to choose from, and it's hard to choose since it all looks delicious.
They have flavours like 'chocolate chip', 'white chocolate', 'belgian chocolate', 'chocolate & coconut', 'walnut & hazelnut', mocca, pistache and many more. Also all kinds of sorbets, like strawberry, mango, passion fruit etc.
They also have milkshakes, different kinds of coffee, cakes and home made chocolates.
So we had an ice cream and enjoyed it outside. I'm afraid we often have to go back there, especially since it's only a 1 minute walk from the ship.
That was just it for today, nothing very exiting really.
Oh, almost forgot... this morning was the official opening of the bookfair on this island and we had a lot of VIP's. I was helping out serving and talking to people. Some of us had their national costumes with them, I don't even have a national costume, besides my wooden shoes, but I decided not te wear them, since it looks kind of stupid under a nice asian looking dress :-)))
We had costumes from Russia, Asia, Indonesia (2), Dominican Republic and Scotland.
Gotta go now. We're having prayer night upstairs. The big kids are already there, the little ones are in bed and it looks like they are asleep.
My biggest kid (Herbert) fell asleep as well :-)))
Tonight after prayer night we have a babysitter, so we're going for a walk with 2 of our friends.
St.Kitts - Antigua
Our visit to St.Kitts was short and after a 6 hour sail yesterday (the 7th of May) we arrived in St.Johns, Antigua.
First a little update on what we've done in St.Kitts. Because of the short stay (friday-wednesday) we haven't done very much ministry on this island, but Herbert has been to jail saturday afternoon to share the gospel. He thought that was a good experience and he now also likes to do more ministry, which is a good thing :-)
Saturday evening was movie night on board. They showed a movie called 'the climb' (if I remember right) and it was open for visitors as well as crew members. After being there for about 10 minutes, we decided we'd rather have our private family movie night and went to our cabin to watch a movie together with the kids.
Sunday we went to the Wesleyan Holiness Church. Gareth Bolton, an OM-man, has been on board the Logos II for about 2 weeks, together with his wife Malou. And he has done teaching on Eclesiastics for the ships crew members. We had one session almost every day, either morning or evening. And on Sunday, he was the one preaching in this church we went to. We were a group of 6 adults (Gareth and Malou, Herbert and I, the Norwegian Stein Are, and the Hungarian Réka) and our 4 kids. We introduced ourselves in church and Réka told something about the ship and our ministry. Gareths preaching was very good and we were glad we went there with them.
After the church service the pastor and his wife took us to the church's outreach where they served us lunch. They had all kinds of food, and also mangos which grow all over the islands here and are ripe now. They showed us the best way to peal and eat a mango, which is not an easy fruit to eat without getting yourself dirty.
We were back on the ship around 2.30 that afternoon.
Sunday night was we had another event on board that was called 'youth explosion'. We first wondered why they named it that, but after a little while we understood. It was really an explosion, WHAT A NOISE can people make. A local church organised it and was in charge of the program, but it felt like it never ended. There was lots of singing, dancing and talking, most of the time VERY loud! But, we survived also this night :-)
New day, new chances (and challenges). In the evening a family night was planned. Again, a local church had organised it. We thought a family night was about spending time with other families and do fun things for kids and adults, but that is obviously not what they think a family night is. The pastor asked us (Herbert and me) to talk about family life and how to raise children and keep your marriage working. Not that we are so good or experienced, but well... we're one of the 2 families on board, have been married for a zillion years and have almost a handfull of kids, so they guessed we should know something about it :-)
First the worship team started, after that the pastor spoke for a couple of minutes and then handed the microphone to us. I introduced our family and told a bit about the ship / ships life and what we do on board. After that Herbert spoke about marriage and raising children and referred to the '5 love languages' of which Gary Chapman wrote about in a book.
After Herberts talk the pastor started a discussion and it was actually quite interesting to talk about this subject with the locals.
After most people had left, the worship team continued playing and singing a bit and then I started singing with them, together with some of the other crew members. We actually sang for about 30 minutes or something like that before they started packing their things and had to leave. We had a great time! Always wanted to sing the Hillsong song "our God is an awesome God" in Reggae style? Travel to the Caribbean, find a church with a good worship team and have fun! :-))
Tuesday Herbert worked in the evening, which means having time off during the day. We decided to go on a luxury day to the Marriott hotel! A volunteer from the Peace Corps told us that we might get in for free to use the swimming pool in the Marriott, since we work as volunteers/missionaries. Unfortunately we had to pay for a day pass, which we did buy, because it was about time we did something fun for the kids. We have been swimming in the pools the whole day. There were 2 pool areas, and the one we were at hardly had any people around it, so we basicly had the whole pool to ourselves. There was also a outdoor jacuzzi which was big enough to swim in actually!
With the day pass came a room, so we had a place to keep our things, to change and to shower/bath. The room was very luxurious, about 5 times the size of our cabin on board here and the bathroom contained a jacuzzi! We showered, but the kids were in the bath tub for a while before we had to go back to the ship.
We had a great day!
Wednesday we left for Antigua.
So far we haven't seen anything of this island yet, but we might go out for a walk tomorrow to explore the port-area.
Now I really have to go to sleep, it's waaaaay past bedtime!!!
Good night
God bless you!
First a little update on what we've done in St.Kitts. Because of the short stay (friday-wednesday) we haven't done very much ministry on this island, but Herbert has been to jail saturday afternoon to share the gospel. He thought that was a good experience and he now also likes to do more ministry, which is a good thing :-)
Saturday evening was movie night on board. They showed a movie called 'the climb' (if I remember right) and it was open for visitors as well as crew members. After being there for about 10 minutes, we decided we'd rather have our private family movie night and went to our cabin to watch a movie together with the kids.
Sunday we went to the Wesleyan Holiness Church. Gareth Bolton, an OM-man, has been on board the Logos II for about 2 weeks, together with his wife Malou. And he has done teaching on Eclesiastics for the ships crew members. We had one session almost every day, either morning or evening. And on Sunday, he was the one preaching in this church we went to. We were a group of 6 adults (Gareth and Malou, Herbert and I, the Norwegian Stein Are, and the Hungarian Réka) and our 4 kids. We introduced ourselves in church and Réka told something about the ship and our ministry. Gareths preaching was very good and we were glad we went there with them.
After the church service the pastor and his wife took us to the church's outreach where they served us lunch. They had all kinds of food, and also mangos which grow all over the islands here and are ripe now. They showed us the best way to peal and eat a mango, which is not an easy fruit to eat without getting yourself dirty.
We were back on the ship around 2.30 that afternoon.
Sunday night was we had another event on board that was called 'youth explosion'. We first wondered why they named it that, but after a little while we understood. It was really an explosion, WHAT A NOISE can people make. A local church organised it and was in charge of the program, but it felt like it never ended. There was lots of singing, dancing and talking, most of the time VERY loud! But, we survived also this night :-)
New day, new chances (and challenges). In the evening a family night was planned. Again, a local church had organised it. We thought a family night was about spending time with other families and do fun things for kids and adults, but that is obviously not what they think a family night is. The pastor asked us (Herbert and me) to talk about family life and how to raise children and keep your marriage working. Not that we are so good or experienced, but well... we're one of the 2 families on board, have been married for a zillion years and have almost a handfull of kids, so they guessed we should know something about it :-)
First the worship team started, after that the pastor spoke for a couple of minutes and then handed the microphone to us. I introduced our family and told a bit about the ship / ships life and what we do on board. After that Herbert spoke about marriage and raising children and referred to the '5 love languages' of which Gary Chapman wrote about in a book.
After Herberts talk the pastor started a discussion and it was actually quite interesting to talk about this subject with the locals.
After most people had left, the worship team continued playing and singing a bit and then I started singing with them, together with some of the other crew members. We actually sang for about 30 minutes or something like that before they started packing their things and had to leave. We had a great time! Always wanted to sing the Hillsong song "our God is an awesome God" in Reggae style? Travel to the Caribbean, find a church with a good worship team and have fun! :-))
Tuesday Herbert worked in the evening, which means having time off during the day. We decided to go on a luxury day to the Marriott hotel! A volunteer from the Peace Corps told us that we might get in for free to use the swimming pool in the Marriott, since we work as volunteers/missionaries. Unfortunately we had to pay for a day pass, which we did buy, because it was about time we did something fun for the kids. We have been swimming in the pools the whole day. There were 2 pool areas, and the one we were at hardly had any people around it, so we basicly had the whole pool to ourselves. There was also a outdoor jacuzzi which was big enough to swim in actually!
With the day pass came a room, so we had a place to keep our things, to change and to shower/bath. The room was very luxurious, about 5 times the size of our cabin on board here and the bathroom contained a jacuzzi! We showered, but the kids were in the bath tub for a while before we had to go back to the ship.
We had a great day!
Wednesday we left for Antigua.
So far we haven't seen anything of this island yet, but we might go out for a walk tomorrow to explore the port-area.
Now I really have to go to sleep, it's waaaaay past bedtime!!!
Good night
God bless you!
May 3, 2008
Basseterre, St.Kitts
Yesterday, the 2nd of May, we arrived safely in St.Kitts after a smooth and great sailing from Jamaica. Nobody was really seasick and just after leaving Jamaica we had a bunch of dolphins swimming right in front of the bow!! We all went out after the captain announced it, and I took lots of pictures and also 2 videos. Amazing, what an experience!!!
We will be in St.Kitts until Wednesday and so far it looks like a beautiful island. Wish we could stay here longer, so we'd have time to explore the island.
Herbert is in prison today, doing ministry with a group from the ship. Tonight we have a movie night for the locals, tomorrow church and a youth meeting in the evening and monday night we'll have a family-night on board the ship for local families. Since we're one of the 2 families on board, we'll be involved in the program.
We will be in St.Kitts until Wednesday and so far it looks like a beautiful island. Wish we could stay here longer, so we'd have time to explore the island.
Herbert is in prison today, doing ministry with a group from the ship. Tonight we have a movie night for the locals, tomorrow church and a youth meeting in the evening and monday night we'll have a family-night on board the ship for local families. Since we're one of the 2 families on board, we'll be involved in the program.
Apr 28, 2008
sailing off to St.Kitts
This afternoon we will sail to St.Kitts. It will be a 3,5 day sail. Hope and pray we won't get to seasick!
I have put some more picture on our picture site.
I'll be writing a new blog once we've arrived in St.Kitts friday.
God bless you all, and please keep sending us messages and email. We're also VERY happy to get letters and postcards, especially the children! Letters, postcards or packages can be send to the head office in Germany (for address see one of the earlier blogs) and it will be forwarded to us or brought to the ship by someone visiting from Germany.
With love from Jamaica
I have put some more picture on our picture site.
I'll be writing a new blog once we've arrived in St.Kitts friday.
God bless you all, and please keep sending us messages and email. We're also VERY happy to get letters and postcards, especially the children! Letters, postcards or packages can be send to the head office in Germany (for address see one of the earlier blogs) and it will be forwarded to us or brought to the ship by someone visiting from Germany.
With love from Jamaica
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