God's Call, Our Journey: A promise is a promise

I promised so many people that I would post everyday. We get to meet N tomorrow!! Less than 24 hours! I can't even get my arms around that! What an incredibly gracious God we have to get us this far! And a ton of support, that He has brought into our lives. It is so overwhelming. Thank you doesn't touch it!

Now I will focus on what we did today…

I slept for 15 hours last night, after being up for 24 straight hours to get here. I knew I was exhausted, but geez! Luckily when I got up it was 8 am here and I was ready to go for the day! Good thing to because the first thing we did was go on a walking tour of the city! It was so interesting and really was a crash course on the history of the country and a chance to see places that we probably would not have seen. We also saw many places to shop along the way, so we now know where to go back to later this week. They have a mineral spring here that they have built a collecting system around, so water flows 24/7 and people just bring their jugs down and fill up. It is, obviously, as pure of water as you can get so they collect it, take it home, cool it down, and drink it. No water filtrations or anything. It has no smell, and just taste fresh… but is quite warm if you try to drink it straight out of the spickit. There are many churches, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish, so it is quite a diverse city. The history is so rich, the city is built in layers, kind of. The things the Romans built are pretty low. As a matter of fact, they have been slowly uncovering it since they built their metro. Then a layer of the Ottomans, and a layer of the Russians, until todays modern buildings.

We ate breakfast at our hotel, where they have a VERY nice buffet set up. I thought the food was wonderful…. Matt was afraid he may not eat for a week! LOL We ate lunch at a very cute little restaurant that was authentic and this time we both thought the food was great! We both had different chicken dishes.

Here are some pictures…