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Grandma and Grandpa Great

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Remember to look at Nancy's email for more details.  You can also scroll down to see pictures.   It was so fun to have Grandma and Grandpa Great here for a couple of weeks.  We asked them what they wanted to do while they were here.  Grandma Great said she wanted to go to Prague in the Czech Republic, and Grandpa Great said he wanted to go to Salzburg in Austria.  They also wanted to spend time experiencing our lives in Germany too.  We were able to do all of those things.  Every day was good. We picked them up at the Frankfurt Airport on Thursday August 25th.  We went to our apartment to get them unpacked and settled then off we went to spend three fabulous days in Prague.  We went to the summer gardens, the Cathedral and castle, the Charles Bridge, the square, and the Jewish quarter.  We also took a boat cruise with a guided tour, and we took a carriage ride around town starting at the square.   We got home Sunday in tim...

If at First You Don't Succeed, Trier Trier Again

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 Please remember to checkout Nancy's weekly email for more detail and better writing. This has been a good week.  I borrowed a bike from a friend and Scott Waterfall borrowed a bike from another friend and we rode bikes to the office most days.  The ride took us through town and farmland, along rivers and rows of apartment buildings, on cobblestone roads and paved bike paths, down some slopes and up some slopes, and eventually to office or home where we sat in front of fans to cool off.  It felt good on my knees to ride. Nancy is speaking in church today.  She has prepared well and will do a good job.  She is a wonderful missionary who knows how to bring people together.  I'm sure she will get several hugs from several people after church.  She is still suffering from plantar fasciitis, but is working hard to help it improve.  She wears a foot brace to bed at night, stretches every morning, and rolls her foot on a specially designed ball....