First pictures

We made it! As promised, here are some pictures

The boys sleeping on the plane. This was the last leg (Brussels to Monrovia). Fortunately the boys slept most of the 7 hours.

Here's the view out the airplane window on the way. I think this was somewhere over Algeria.

Here's the coastline of Liberia.

We sprayed the boys rooms last night before bed. We went back into Colton's room an hour later and there were these guys laying dead on the floor. Colton decided he'd rather move his bed to the room Christopher and Kobe were sharing (they only had 3 dead roaches).

Here's the master bedroom

The living room...I think Kobe is inspecting Colton's bug bites.

Jamie in the kitchen.

and the boys bedroom. Beyond through the door is a classroom that the last missionaries added.

There's a termite mound in front of our house.

And there's our house. We have a bamboo fence around the front yard. We need to install a new roof, hopefully before rainy season. It needs lots of other work, but overall it is pretty solid.

And there is the view looking south from our house down the road.

That's all for now. I'll try to get more pictures of the area and Monrovia and post them later this weekend.

Almost there

Well we're sitting in the airport in Brussels, Belgium, waiting for our last flight. 17 hours down, only 8 more to go. We should be into Monrovia around 6:00 PM/9:00 AM pst. Hopefully we'll be able to post an update tomorrow, after we get settled in (and get internet access).

Update

Wow, has it really been over a month since we've posted anything? Well here's the latest:

On the medical front, the doctors found that Rusty has an increased level of a certain antibody. They think that has been the cause of his symptoms. No MS. The condition should be pretty easily manageable with some pretty basic medications.

So with that news, we were able to finalize our plans for heading to Liberia! We'll be departing on February 24th, arriving in Liberia on the 25th! For those who don't know, we'll be working with SIM for the next 18 months. Rusty will be working with the construction services division on the ELWA campus and Jamie will be homeschooling the boys.

More good news, our car made it safely to Liberia about 2 weeks ago! It will be waiting for us when we arrive in 13 days.

Off to get some packing done...