Last Christmas was spent with friends in the Dominican Republic. Luke and Melinda joined us on the 26th. This year, Melinda is staying in Europe, where she's been spending her Junior year at the univeristy in Montpellier, France. http://melindakays.blogspot.com So that she wouldn't be spending Christmas without family, Andrew and Luke left on the evening of the 23rd on the non-stop to London, then landed in Geneva on Christmas eve. They took a ski shuttle from the airport to Chamonix, France to stay at a youth hostel with Melinda. Their plans include a trip to Venice, Florence and they'll bring in the new year in Rome with fireworks. Luke is on Christmas break from UNCC and Andrew's company closed for 2 weeks for cost cutting reasons. God worked everything out for them to be there!
The married boys are with in-laws this Christmas, so we just spent a quiet night watching "Christmas from Saddleback with Rick Warren" on FNC last night. There were no toys to assemble, no boxes to bring in from the neighbors, and no one but us to put the luminaries out on the street. IT WAS AWESOME! The married kids will be joining us in Charlotte to be with the Miller family on Saturday. Later, the 8 of us, (married kids and their wives) will be going to the beach to bring in the New Year! It's not Rome, but Atlantic Beach is a close second.
Andrew arrives back from Italy Jan. 2nd. Nathan and Angela leave later that day from RDU as well. Luke returns Jan. 12 to start back at UNCC, only this semester, he'll be attending ROTC classes as a newly sworn in member of the North Carolina National Guard.
We're counting down the days until we leave for the Dominican Republic on January 2nd. We'll be with a Soccer Mission group from Cary, including Caleb Norkus, one of the Railhawk professional players. We've known Caleb since he was a baby. We attended church with his whole family 30 years ago. We'll be working with the Haitian Soccer teams sponsored by churches in Santiago, DR.
We promise to put small updates in more frequently this year, including a narrative of our entire 2007. If you have trouble sleeping, then after we get that posted up, you can save it for bedtime reading. It'll be like a family slide show, or home movies, only worse!
Much love from Karina y Jorge!
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