Jamestown, Virginia

Getting behind on my blog! I have so much to share; we have seen so many amazing things and have been blessed in so many ways but just haven't had time to get on the computer and collect my thoughts. It hasn't been the kind of busy where our time has been filled with lots of events (well, a little bit) but busy with spending quality time with family and friends, being an encouragement and getting encouraged! I just don't want to waste a moment with them all. Anyway, I have a few extra minutes tonight and already had the below post mostly finished a couple of weeks ago, so decided I had better finish it up. So here is a post of what we were doing on the first week of August. 

We headed to Williamsburg to visit our good Cameroonian missionary friends (the Conrod Family) who are also on furlough in the States pretty much the exact same time as us. They minister to the Baka (Pygmy) tribe in the rain forest in the East of Cameroon. They are what I call "real missionaries" as they live in the middle of nowhere, have no electricity except what they get from solar panels, pump their water up from a spring, those around them speak no English and have had very little exposure to the Gospel. We admire the difficult and challenging work that they do to advance the kingdom of God in that area of Cameroon. We go to the same missionary homeschooling co-op and we've visited them a few times out in the East, and are proud to call them our friends. So since we really weren't far away from where they are staying in Virginia, we decided it would be great fun to hang out for a few days. It is always great to meet people in the West that you've only know from Cameroon... we don't have the big invisible sign of foreigner/missionary over our heads and we are just inconspicuous, kinda fun!

We spent the time at Williamsburg in their parent's time share. We slept in a beautiful apartment with a swimming pool, gym, sauna, game room, mini golf, and tennis court all at our disposal; we felt very spoiled! We also got to go spend a day walking around Jamestown Settlement. It was so awesome for the boys as they have both studied it in school recently and it really brought everything to life for them. Here are some photos of our time there:

The Powhatan village

I loved that the kids could touch and feel everything there!

They got a chance to scrap the fur off of a deer hide

A canoe that they are burning out and will actually use

Jordan playing some sort of Indian darts

Josh in the hull of a ship

My little soldier man

They boys got to see how a real matchlock gun worked (Seth read a book in school about it last year)

Jude was very interested!

Looks a lot like England

Seth and his buddy Asher. It was really nice for them to hang out with some kids that they already know.

Family devos with the Conrods. Fun to sing French, English and Baka songs. 

On the way to Williamsburg one of the back tires of the RV blew out. It sounded like a shot gun, made my heart stop for a few seconds! Since the the RV is a duelly we crept off the interstate, and there was a gas station right there that had a shop attached to it. They had the spare on in less than 15 minutes. They told us the back tires were old and needed to be replaced. We headed to Firestone where we decieded to get 4 new ones for the back as they said the tires were at least 10 years old. We praise the Lord for His continued protection! Other than that, RVing is going awesome.