Portugal, thus far.

Excuse my English, I am losing it. I speak in incomplete sentences now. Emily and I arrived in Portugal at about 5pm this Sunday. (Our time). That was over 24 hours of traveling. We are still very very exhausted, but had the opportunity to sleep until 10:30am this morning.

It is beautiful here and the people are friendly. Supposedly, i eat funnily according to the Portuguese. Funny enough to laugh at me. My new phrase is: "I am confused." Hopefully i'll start to pick the language up better.

We had a layover in Germany - it was awesome. Everyone is tall and blonde. The boys were very fine. And the women were so TALL! all of them could be models, no lie. The paper towels were softer than the toilet paper, though.

Today we woke up at 10:30 (which i mentioned earlier), and then walked around doing random things around the camp. at 12 we closed the reception area and got on our bikes and rode to lunch by the river. Afterwards, we went to the beach and played in the water for a bit. Topless beaches... hm. :/ We'll work on and off at the reception until 7pm tonight, when we will go to the beach and then dinner. then from 9pm-12 we will take shifts as to who does what. i can't wait to sleep... i can barely walk.

Much love to you all, thank you for your prayers and support. If anyone would like to talk to me i have skype from probably 7am to 1pm (central time). Mountaingoat44 is my skype name.

In Christ,
Grace Owens

PS: Emily is still alive and kickin'.

Today is the day!

Today we are leaving! Last minute preparations and we'll be on our way! Our flight leaves at 5:30pm this evening. Much love!

-Grace

Pre-Adventure

Hello All!

This is Grace. Here is the blog in which Emily and I will be posting a bunch of news and photos while we're in Portugal and Italy. I hope you enjoy!

If you need to contact us for any emergency or just 'cause, here is our contact information:

Grace cell- 1-225-933-8166

Grace Skype - mountaingoat44

Grace AIM - Sancho923

Grace email1 - graceowens@ymail.com

Grace email2 - goblonde@cox.net

Emily cell - 1-225-719-2236

Emily email1 - sra1president@yahoo.com

Emily email2 - kra_z_m@yahoo.com

You should be able to reach either of us at any of those. We'll be together the whole time.

We'll be in Sao Jacinto, Aveiro, Portugal for five weeks working at a natural reserve outdoors camp. This is through the BSA and we got involved with this because of Venture Scouting. We're not 100% sure what we'll be doing those five weeks, but we think it will be random jobs around the campsite. We'll travel on the weekends and as much as possible. The sixth week of our trip we will spend in Rome, Italy. Hopefully we can get a train to Venice for a couple of those days - but we'll see when we get there.

Please be praying for our safety and our adjustment to a new place because this trip will be tough on the both of us. We leave from MSY June 27. (This coming saturday)

In Christ,

Grace Owens