This will be my first trip out of the country. I could never quite make financial sense of studying abroad in college (should have actually talked to someone about it instead of letting the $$ spook me out of pursuing it). Tim and I discussed traveling internationally before we had children, but that never materialized, either. So here we are, lucky to have this opportunity to go at quite a reduced price since Tim will be working while we are there.
While Tim is working, I plan to go grocery shopping with the Duchess of Cambridge and of course go hat shopping with Princess Beatrice. I will be sure to wear my best Duchess of Hazard attire.
On a serious note, I cannot wait to travel more as the boys get older. Our church is going to China this summer as well as Trinidad. Tim and think we'll probably go on the Trinidad family missions trip in a few years. After reading the book Radical, I'm challenged as a Christian not to leave foreign missions work to those who are "called" to it. We are all called to it under the Great Commission. To think that we are somehow exempt from that but privy to God's more comfortable blessings is flat-out wrong. I am praying today for God to use this passport as a much more than a ticket to visit my Royal friends but to serve a real King around the world. Some of you might think I'm a bit nuts for buying into this Jesus stuff. But I'll own it. As excited as I am to spend some time abroad for the first time this summer, I'm more excited to see where the Lord will lead our lives when we follow him. That is a true adventure.
