Days 4, 5, 6

Whoa. So I haven't had consistent internet access for the past few days, so I apologize for not keeping up on this. Okay, so Wendesday morning we took a boat back to England, which was really smooth. Then we met up with the lovely Debbie Robinson in Liverpool. We checked out the Cathedral (largest in the city, 4th largest in the world) and a few shops before it POURED down rain for the rest of the afternoon. We had dinner at Deb's parents house, where they were having a big potluck dinner for a girl who was going to be moving the following week. It was a great time of fellowship. I loved being about to simply talk about Jesus, faith in Liverpool and the Church with these awesome, on-fire belivers. PLEASE - pray for the city of Liverpool. It is a city that simply needs Jesus, but has been so put off towards it. Pray for revival. It WILL start with the young adults and teenagers.

Yesterday (Day 5), we started driving towards this place called Cedar Farms, about an hour outside of Liverpool.... we got lost and ended up in this seaside town called Seaport. It was such a fun adventure, and I finally got to have "proper fish and chips." Yummmmmmo :) After Seaport, we went to Deb's Bible study small group, where we talked about prophecy of the Old Testament, relating it to our lives as believers now. If you want to know more, just ask :) Again, another great night of fellowshipping with believers. Afterwards, got some pizza and watched episodes of the British version of The Office.... which, by the way, Americans totally copied off of. Now, I knew that ours was based on the British version, but oh me goodness, some of the jokes and punch lines were EXACTLY the same!!! I was gutted, as Deb would say. Liverpool was, by far, the most relaxing leg of the journey so far....

until....

We only made our train to Birmingham with 2 minutes... not joking, 2 minutes to spare before the train pulled out! We went to the Beatles museum this morning (amazing!!!! Definitely worth checking out if you're anywhere NEAR Liverpool) and it was just really tough getting through traffic at the train station. We finally got there, jumped out of there, said the quickest goodbye of my life, and went running towards the train. We were headed towards the departures screen when I glanced up at the nearest train. God was looking out for us, because it just happened to be our train. Had we gone to the Departures screen, we would not have made it on. Let me just say that I am not much for cutting it close like that!

So we are currently in Birmingham, visiting with Larissa. We met her at her school, where we played loads of games with her 2nd graders. They were just so precious. I could totally work in an English school :)

Tonight we're headed out for dinner and just kind of a relaxing evening catching up, which is really what this trip is all about ;) The train leaves for London tomorrow morning at 7 AM. Yep, the middle of the night. We're trying to convince Larissa to come along, as she would love to see our friends, Mel and Amy (from summer 06). I'll meeting up with my cousin, Michael, tomorrow as well for lunch; he'll also be coming around with us for the sightseeing :) We're staying with Jenna's friend from high school, Barra, so hopefully he has internet and I will be able to upload some photos from Liverpool and Day 1 of London.

Thanks for reading :) Love to all....