I saw this Tux bath mat the other day while I was walking around town.
My Damaged Passport
Cacak is a city of great contrasts
Trip to the US
In this post, I mentioned that we were going to the US (actually, the US Embassy in Belgrade) because my passport had been washed. We decided to try and take the train to Belgrade. (In Serbian, it would be something like Путовали смо до Београда воѕом). That probably isn’t right, but it is close.
We hopped the local train here in Чачак and traveled to Пожега (about 45 min or so). We weren’t real sure where we would get off, but we knew we had to change trains. We asked the conductor (well, we tried). He got the idea and told us. When we got off, I saw him looking at the schedule and he told us a time. We didn’t really understand but didn’t know how to get a better answer. We decided we would wait and see what happened.
Well, a train came along and Београд was announced so we got on and sat down. The conductor came along and looked at our tickets. He told us we needed to pay more (I understood that) but made like I didn’t understand. I thought he just wanted to get more money from us. Eventually, he found someone who spoke english that confirmed what I thought he was saying so we paid him more динари (dinars).
The guy we met turned out to be from Italy. He, his brother, and I talked most of the way to Београд. Every little bit, the train would stop and let another train pass. We had to stop and wait at a few stations. Overall, the trip was much nicer than the bus because we could get up and walk around…however, it took about twice as long. Here is a picture we took while the train was stopped waiting:
We went to Belgrade early to see some friends. They introduced us to some of their friends, and we had a wonderful time.
While we were there, we had a chance to meet some Brothers and Sisters and worship with them. It was so amazing. We heard a sermon on Matthew 6:25-34. I found that message passage convicting to me (I say passage because I didn’t understand much of the sermon). Later that day, a few people got together for prayer. There, we heard Isaiah 61 read. That was purely God because I had read that same passage that morning and was convicted by it. God is awesome!
Monday (понедељак I think I spelled it right) we went to the Embassy. There was a line; however, we walked up to the door, showed the guy our US passports, explained what we needed, and went right in. They showed us where to go, we told a lady what we needed, and she said sit and wait. We waited < 10 minutes and were called up to a window. We told the lady what we needed, she took our money, and said they would call us in 10 days (or sooner if it was done). In the end, the whole thing took < 30 min. We didn’t get to do much while we were there. The embassy looked nothing like I thought it would inside (probably post 9/11 security measures changed everything).
For more pictures, you can look in our flickr photostream or the set with pictures of this trip to Belgrade.
Looking through stats….
When I saw some people had came across some of the pictures of Lydia when she had chicken pox. That got me looking though the pictures. I just saw two that I thought I would post here….it is hard to believe that Lydia had the chicken pox 9 months or so ago when she was < 1 year old.
Answers Magazine
Cyndi and I received our first issue of Answers Magazine yesterday! We are excited! (as if you can’t tell). Why? Well, it turns out that we didn’t have much extra space or weight to bring books with us. We can buy books here, but they are rather expensive ($20 or so for a paperback that would run $9 or so in the US).
I want to take time to say thanks to our friends who gave us the subscription (no, I won’t mention names, but they know who they are).
Want to subscribe yourself, here is a link to their subscription page .
Monster Post Day
Yesterday was a day made for blogging. But, I ended up and posted so much that you might not get a change to see everything. So, here is an idex post of sorts.
We got our first package from the US.
I posted several videos of Lydia
I talked about our trip to Greece (and posted a video)
I put up a photo tour of part of Cacak (Чачак)
More from Greece
While we were in Greece, I went to go see a comedy show one evening. Before it started, there was a kid having a birthday so they sang happy birthday to him. I took a video and thought I would share it with everyone.
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Lydia Eating II
Here is a video of Lydia eating while we were in Greece. She started wanting to use (try to use) a fork for herself. We thought you grandparents would get a kick out of this.
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