God is Love

Week three of Semester 2 and only 6 more weeks to go. It's such a crazy thought to think that school ends for me in a matter of a month and a half and 10 of those days we are on out reach. So really for those who are missing my wonderfully beautiful face and my incredible personality no need to worry I will be home before you know it. Well add in another few weeks of travelling to the 6 weeks and it'll more likely be about 9 ish weeks. I am very excited to go home but also not so excited. I am very mixed emotions about the whole situation still. Going home means i have to find a job and go back to normal school and a life that I have to be alone a lot. Here there is always people to be around but going home means normal food no more roommates, a hot shower every night, I can go where I want when I want. I love this place I really do, I wouldnt trade it for anything in this world but it has its advantages and disadvantages as does any place really.
Well Shall i recap my pretty uneventful week for you. I managed to learn a lot this week or at least get some nice reminders. Sunday was suppose to be my day to do homework and meet with people and go walk the canal, however my old roomies forgot to let me know that they wanted to go to town. So they convinced me to go after agreeing to talk about the essay I hadn't yet started. So we walked to carforth where we had to taxi to Lancaster becuase nothing not even trains are open on a Sunday around here. No that many people actually go to church. So in Lancaster pretty much we went to Pizza hut and had dinner, which was amazing. Pizza is sooo good. We headed back here where we had evening service and bed time.
Mon through thursday is lectures as usual. However Monday was essay writing day, I started 6:30 in the morning and got 800 words and then finished the next morning. Don't worry I didn't work straight through I had classes and food eating times and add in some meetings and a few breaks for snacks plus talking and our new favourite past time around here Gilmore Girls. My essay did get done eventually. I am now just hoping that it actually passes. Tues-thurs I just kinda hung out had a few meetings, talked to people typical Capernwray day.
So our lectures this week were pretty intense we had Rob doing Early Life of Abraham. We finally finished the lecture series, kinda sad I really enjoyed all that he had to say. This week he was focusing on Relational Conflict within the church but also with people just in general. It was really neat becuase he talked about the different ways we deal with conflict and with people and how we react and why we do. What he was saying was things that I feel like we should all know. It was a really great series for I think everyone in the room whether you could use the information now or later. We also had a guest lecturer this week names Rick Bundshaw, who helped write Soul Surfer. He is from Hawii, he did a pretty good job, he spoke on the Economy of God. Which is kinda hard to explain but it was all on the idea of how the world views things and how so often we as christians take in these worldy views when we should be using christian/kingdom values. There is more but some of its complicated in how to explain.
Our week ended on a pretty decent note overall. Friday groups started to leave and so there was about 50 of us left for the night some to leave in the morning others to stay the weekend here. I stayed friday night in my room by my self and relaxed and watched a few movies and then left sat morning. We were all heading off to different parts of the UK for outreach weekend. So pretty much it involved us going there being introduced to the church and various other groups of people, we were also told the massive list of things we have to prepare and how jam packed our 10 days will be. We are pretty much doing it all, I lucked out and I get to preach infront of one of the churches. There is so much I could tell. It was an amazing weekend, I am staying at this host family with my friend Sophie and then our other team members are spead out amoung 4 other familes. The lady we are staying with is super sweet. We watched the Iron lady with her and then Sunday after church she sent us out with a map and me and Sophie walked around town. Overall a great weekend, we ended with a really good evening church service where a girl younger then me preached. She was really good and confident she spoke on the being part of a war and being the army of God. It was an awesome reminder that I can do it, I can go out and I can do this outreach. I am so excited to be stretched and pulled and challenge my self.
I ask for prays over my relationship with God may grow but also my friends here as well. Also that when I am and everyone else leaves this place that we might remember the lessons we learn and continue to grow and havea  relationship with God. Another prayer request is for our outreach group and that we might grow and become united and encourage each other but also glorify God in all that we do.
I hope all is going well at home, I miss you and love you guys and Ill be home in about 9 weeks :) !!

'I can do everything through Him who gives me strength' Phil 4:13

So week 2 of being back and so far it has started out on a pretty decent note. Sunday is the day that is filled with lots of hour or so free time. Those hour free times make the perfect time for naps. I find that so far this semester I have slept so much, I nap frequently dont know why I just do. I nap with my rest of my roommates making for some good bonding time. It's actually quite funny becuase in my old room no one really liked naps and so you just didnt do it, you feel weird when you are just napping in a room with 4 other girls how ever two of my other roommates now love to nap.So now if you find one person napping you will usually join them and so it is perfectly normal to find at least one person sleeping in my room. Our room is great we all go to bed fairly early and we nap and everyone knows it and yet our room is where ever one comes to hang out during the day and watch gilmore girls. Anywho the rest of sunday was good we had a worship night where we also got to meet and hear from our guest lecturer for the week. His name is Ian Leitch, which some of you might have heard of. He has written a quite a few Christian books and he has been all over the world a few million times. He is about 72 years old and almost died from a heart condition last year, yet he still managed to fly to North america som crazy amount of times. It was so nice to have him here, he has such a dry witty sense of humour and the things he said sometimes was so hard to believe he actually said it. But it was good none the less he taught on Apolegetics and it was sweet to have a greater knowledge of why I believe what I believe. This week we also had Rob Whittaker our Principle continue his series on Early life of Abraham and then we had Andy Thomas one of the staff begin a series on Philippians. And then we have begun lectures for our 10  day outreach in Feb. We leave Feb 24 and we are gone for 10 days so I think its March 4 when we get back. We are going to the churches next weekend. So prayer for my team and just in general for student body as we go out and meet these people we will be working with. Pray also for team building that we will learn to work together and get along just so that we can grow and be a well functioning team. We are the biggest group of about 12 students, so it should be interesting.
What else happened this week well everyone has been getting sick, there was a flu going around that a few people have gotten. There is also a cold that everyone seems to have gotten. Including Zach and so it seems to have hit him hard, he has been tired and exhausted all week and so he has pretty much been sleeping as much as possible. So hoping that this cold passes and we can move on. You literally cant go more then a month here with out being sick, its ridiculous. Other then that this week has been pretty uneventful, we started doing pictures for the year book and two of my roommates have had birthdays. I have also been out walking with lots of different girls this week and just getting to know them better. I have been in bed early and woken up early all week. I am becoming a morning person i wake up before my alarm even goes off at 6:00 am and I am out of bed with no problem. Its really weird, well for me at least. I have also been watching a lot of Gilmore Girls this week with a few girls. Its funny how you can start the show and if people walk by they will stop and join you and you end up with about 7 girls just watching it and laughing.
Oh Friday was seminar day so we had this seminar called Confidence Gym it was for the girls and then the boys had there own little seminar. It was good it got me thinking about just how poor of confidence I actually have and how what I say affects me in more ways then I think it does. Its now one of my goals for this semester is to just think more postively and not to let the negative thoughts come out or take control. Also on friday night we did another worship night focusing on not just hearing and reading what the word says but by going on and applying it to you and doing what it says. So often we read what our bibles say and we go to church and hear what the pastor has to say but we do nothing about it. We sit around saying that we arent sinning by following the law. But its just as to sit and do nothing about what you hear as it is to break a law. So my ramble is go out and do something get off your butt and listen to what God has to say to you. Hey dont worry I am not perfect this is just as much as a reminder to me as it is to you. I am still working on getting off my butt and taking the things I learn and applying it to my daily life. Its not easy by any stretch of the imagination but it is something we have to do.
Saturday was suppose to be my productive day I got up bright and early my usual 6:30 in the am and when down to the castle where I got to skype my fam damily. It was pretty sweet I must say i havent gotten to see any of them in about 4 months and they showed me the house a little bit. The only time I can actually video is 6 30 in the morning on a saturday when no one else is up because people get mad plus it slows the internet for about everyone else around here. I also got all my reading done and I got a little work on my essay before we went out to Lancaster to just hang out and chill. We got back here where I felt like crap, i have been having stomach issues again which doesnt bother me that much it just is slightly annoying. We watched super 8 or something like that before heading to bed. My new bed time is about 10:30pm which is really early for me. Any who hope you guys are enjoying the snow for those back home, we have none just wind and cold and wet, which is fine. Lots of love moriah

Star bright Star light first star i see tonight!! Welcome back!

It's so weird being back here at Capernwray, but we are back and in full swing of things all over again for semester two. And let me tell you things have changed a lot. We have gotten new roommates in different rooms, I miss my old roomies a lot and my old room, but I have some interesting new ones. I say interesting only because I dont know them too well yet. All the rooms seem to have quite the mix of girls, none of the rooms make a lot of sense but we shall see how it all works out. So in my room I have 3 other girls all from Canada, one named Emily who is from Langley, B.C. she has some tendancies that remind my a bit of my sister in kinda the controlling motherly bit, and shes a bit loud and has some weird moments. She also is known around school for her funny weird sounding sneezes. Then there is Courtney who is from Hepburn Saskactewan, she is really sweet and funny. I dont know her too well but we seem to get along fairly well so far. Last but not least there is Maddie who from Steinbach Manitoba, she was in Brianna, my chilliwack buddies room last semester, so I got to know her pretty well. She is a lot of fun, kinda crazy, not big into following rules. Its great because we all dont hang out in the day and we all have different friends so we often have at least one other person in our room. The other day at one point we had 6 other girls hanging out in our room. We also have an extra beds so we have girls come sleep over. Our new room is spacious not as big or as cool as my last, I am no longer in the castle but now the conference hall so it is a bit warmer. It is not as convienant if you want to go hang out with everyone else but its cozy in our rooms and we get internet in our room. Its not bad and I only have 10 weeks in this room minus a 10 days for our outreach. Which we found out our groups today. I am part of the biggest group, who is going to Sale which is close to Manchester. There are three churches we are helping at and so we have two leaders, Aimee and Orion and then we have 10  others so total there are 4 guys and 8 girls. I think our team is actually going to be pretty sweet. I enjoy everyone in our group so it should be a lot of fun.
This week we got new seating plan for the rest of the school year and so we are actually sitting with the people who are on our outreach. We also got new duties which my duty is lucky me I get to clean the girls bathroom in my hall, which is absolutely great. Not really but oh well. I have also had to get used to waking up early again and so i am back in my scedule of waking up at 6 to go read and do internet for 6:30 till breakfast at 7:30. The rest of the day is the same, lectures, lunch, walk, hang out and nap and do homework and then dinner and lectures then off to bed early. I live such a thrilling life here at Capernwray. Really that is all there is to life here so I dont know why I am continuing to blog about it. Oh the exciting thing is that we pulled an all nighter coming here which was hilarious untill we were getting off the plane after having no sleep and we all felt sick and gross and then had to train to school and eventually we felt fine but I lost my voice from being already a little sick plus no sleep. So I am finally getting it back, it was really squeaky and barely could hear it. Everyone loved to make jokes about it. I am just glad I can hear myself talk again and that I dont sound like a mouse anymore.
What else is new well we had Mark Thomas talk on 1 Corinthians again, which it has been 3 weeks of his lectures and we are only not even done the book and there is only 16 chapters. I am not a big fan of him and have a very hard time focusing during his lectures. We also have a guest Lecturer Andy Jack this week, he one that I quite enjoy, he is doing 1 Samuel. Its been pretty good so far Andy  is making us think and showing how it applies not only to them but he pulls it in and makes it about Jesus again. The way he is doing his lectures is engaging and I can focus so easily. He also doesnt go down a lot of side streets in his lectures to try and get to the point he just says it straight out and then shows us how to apply it.
Some quick last minute updates, all my jeans have decided to get destoryed so me and Zach made a trip out to Lancaster on Saturday where he figured out travel plans and I shopped around. Once we were done shopping we visited the ooutside of Lancaster Castle which is now used as a prision. We always go to Lancaster but we never take time to look around and enjoy usually we go for internet and shopping. Oh I also dont have any official travel plans right now and I am looking into trying to find people in Europe to stay with and visit with instead of making my trip crazy and doing hostels all over the place. Oh I have also started my daily walk around the loop which this week some days I do it three times I also went for a RUN! Yeah I know I was surprised and so were a lot of people. We went star gazing Saturday night and saw I think it was 8 or 9 shooting stars, it was freezing cold but so very cool. The one amazing thing here is just how clear you can see the stars even in the morning when I wake up the stars are still out and still rather bright. I truly love it so very much. I dont know if too much else has happenen this past week, its been a lot of walking, hanging out, some roommate naps, and just getting back into the swing of school and life here.
Anywho peace out have a great week everyone, I love you lots and miss you too

Last stop Dublin!!!

Well coming to Dublin was probably the best place we could have chosen to end this wonderful trip with. It is such a relaxing place with nice people, beautiful senary and wonderful crisp fresh air. So far it has been the coldest place we have visited, London was rather warm, so warm that I actually wore just my rain jacket and one pair of pants, Paris was a tad colder and yet muggy gross cloudy and we had to wear our heavy coats and hats with mits and a few extra layers. However here in Dublin we wear our warmest clothes and I wore 3 pairs of tights and a pair of pants just to keep warm with my toque and mits and my very warm scarf. At points in our day I am still cold. When you get closer to the water you freeze becuase there is this very cool crisp air that passes right through you. 

When we finally arrived and got to our hostel which is the nicest hostel we have been in. I could probably live here it is so quant and clean and the beds are comfier then my bed at capers and everyone is really friendly and it is really just very awesome. Its called Four courts hostel so if you ever need some where to stay in Dublin stay here. Anywho we got here and we needed to eat and I dont remember if I mentioned it in my last entry but we walked around trying to find a pub to eat in and we finally found O'Neills which is very Irish and we got back corner table and some amazing food, 3 of us had this Dubliner Cheese burger which was literally a massive the size of a baseball piece of meat squished down to fit on a massive bun that was bigger then my hand. It was probably the size of my head maybe a little smaller. I finished mine  and most of my fries, it was difficult to eat just becuase the burger barely fit in my mouth but I did it and it was so delicious. 

Monday we woke up bright and early, earlier then we were suppose to becuase you see I forgot to set my cloak on my phone back and hour and so we were an hour ahead still in Paris time so both me and Zach didnt realize this till we got down stairs for breakfast only to have Zach look at his watch and realize it was only 8 and thats why Christy wasnt down there yet to meet us. Rather silly of us but of well. We got stuff done before going out for the day, I finished writing stuff out and I actually got some bible reading and some much needed alone time. They have a reading room here that no one uses so  I went down and took advantage of it, I havent really had anytime to my self in 3 weeks and even before that its been 3 months. I miss being able to be alone for more then 20 mins. We spent the day on a walking tour of Dublin which I suggest for everyone to do, if you are spending more then 3 days in a place to do on day one of your travels. We did one with the same company called Sandmans, in Paris but we did it half way through our trip and so we had seen a lot of the city already. The walking tours are really nice becuase the guides give you a lot of extra historical information about the city plus some secert tips on different things of the city. You also get to see where everything is as well a good idea of the lay out of the place. Our walking tour in Dublin we had a very funny Irish who told us a lot of really good stories if I could remember any of them or if any of them are actually relevant to anything I'd tell you but I cant remember any of them well enough to tell. It was a rather long tour but well worth it we froze our butts off, even though it was very very sunny. We went back to our hostel and ate our frozen pizza, with a very plain salad which is just lettuce. The life of a student travelling with little money.

Tuesday we decided we wanted breakfast  but the place we wanted to go was closed so we went to this pub beside it so we had scrambled eggs with toast. I really wanted pancakes or french toasted, but no such luck. We three girls went out to spend our day shopping while Zach took the opportunity to go out and spend some much needed time alone to explore and so he made his way to howth. Its this village along the coast. He spent the day doing whatever he was doing, exploring, hiking slipping in mud all that good stuff while us girls went to shop. We ended up not shopping for long, we went down this road that has all these shops on it and stopping every now and then but not really wanting to buy anything or spend time looking. None of us have money or space left for anything. So we took a turn that lead us out further away from anything shopping wise and lead us to middle of no where, well it was somewhere we were still in Dublin we were just more or less entering suburbs and then we entered the ghetto and business area and we made our way towards the ocean. We hit the coast coast where all the ships and ferries leave from, it was at this point that we decided we were hungry, very cold from the wind and we thought we should head back. It took a good hour at least to walk back along the water/river/canal, whatever you wanna call it. It was fantastic though because we saw parts of Dublin we would have never other wise saw, and we meet some really nice people who help us find our way back to the hostel. We had the perfect sunny day for it too, it was rather chilly and we were tired, so we went back to the hostel where Brianna napped and me and Christy set out to find this place called Pennys, everyone has been holding these Pennys bags that look the same as Primark, and so we were curious. We eventually found it and its pretty much the same, its owned by the same company just different names. For those who dont know what Primark is, it is only a very big awesome department store in the Uk. It is wonderful truly, you can get a lot of stuff and its all rather cheap, of course it is not good quality but it works for some things. After hitting up Pennys and buying stuff we dont need we walked to this gelatoes place to get some gelatoes of course, in the middle of January whatelse do you do in january besides eat cold snacks. They were so good and both of us can eat them with out getting sick, I got Tiramasueand cookies and spoons. We headed back where we made our cheap unhealthy dinner and watched movies

Wed, Christys friend Mandy was suppose to meet up with us again, however she missed her plane so she didnt end up coming in till 4 and then she didnt get to the hostel till about 7 so spent a lot of unnessasary time waiting around for her. So all we got done was breakfast where we had "american" bacon and eggs with PANCAKES. This is very exciting for me because at school, for breakfast I eat oatmeal during the week and saturday we have hash browns, eggs, and sausages with beans and tomatoes and toast. By the time we actually had breakfast it was lunch and so we waited till 5 to have lunch and then we waited till 8 to have dinner it was wonderful, we went out for pub food which was really good. Pubs here are fantastic, they have good music and great food and just an awesome environment. Anywho the rest of our day was spent waiting for Mandy and going to this Jail, which was only suppose to take "15 mins" to walk to but ended up taking 45 mins. The jail wasn't that exciting or at least not for me. Overall the day wasn't that exciting or great. I ended the day by watching Dexter and just chillaxin. 

Thursday was our trip outta town we decided to go visit the fishing village Zach went to the other day, Howth. We had to take a train there, it only took half hour and then once we got there we walked around the costal cliffs, it was pretty amazing. Kinda reminded me a little of home and the ocean, It was a gorgeous day with a lot of wind and a little rain but overall a great day to see a bit more of Ireland. I loved it there and could have probably moved there if I actually could. The houses are so cute and the everything is beautiful. We stayed there for a bit before heading back for a rest before going for dinner at the Porteerhouse for dinner/appeies. The food here is amazing if I havent already said this before. In the end it was a great relaxing day. 

Friday was our last full day here so we went to visit the Guiness Store house. It was interesting to say the least and some people poured "the perfect pint". After we went had our last Tesco sandwiches for this trip and headed off to shop and just look around. We came back early to nap before dinner. We went to a Pub where no one was and had decent food before going back to pack and get ready for our way back home. Me and Zach decided to make the most of our night and try and find somewhere to have dessert and cofffee. But you see we ran into a problem because restaurants close early and pubs stop making food at like 9 and so we visited the Hardrock cafe were we got ID and had coffee and Apple cobbler. We are now just spending the night hanging out doing an all nighter before heading off to Manchester to go back to school. We have to leave for the airport at 3:30 so there was no point to sleep. I have yet to pack and dont feel the need. We are having quite the interesting hilarious night full of funny faces, noises and some random interesting convosations. 

I cant wait to get back to Capers and find out who all my new room mates are and all the new things and everything that are to come. It has been quite the three weeks of travels. Not bad but we have had some moments. I am ready to get back to some normal life again 

lots of love moriah

I see London I see France... I see Paris underpants!! Hello and Good bye Paris

So we have arrived in Paris safe and sound after leaving London around 8:30 pm and then arriving 11:45 Paris time. So a good 2 hour train ride through the underground tunnel. It was what seemed like a long train ride but really it wasn't. I had enough time to think of every possible bad out come when it came to our hostel. I also had enough time to prethink french phrases that I might need to know and I did a good two hour amount of worrying.  However once we got off the train we had to find a taxi to get to our hostel and we found one outside the train station of course we paid far too much but oh well he found the place we needed to be and he told me where all the things I needed to know where. Also he didn't really speak English and so I spoke to him in French. You should all be pretty impressed and proud of my french speaking ability. I am so glad for french immersion, and I have been using it and apparently I am decent enough for people who are french to understand me and people who are english to not understand me. Haha its funny because all of us Canadians know enough french but I have become the desinated translator for the group. Never thought that would happen. We got to our hostel and I spoke to the guy and figured out our room and then we got to our room where it is very simple. Nothing special just 5 beds and a sink with a very bizarre shower. 

The 27th being tuesday Zach joined up with us in the morning meeting us in the hostel and then all of us being extremely tired and exhausted made our way out into the city. We had to get metro passes and try and figure out how exactly this metro worked in comparision with the subway in London. London metro is much cleaner and faster. We found our way to city center where we walked around and found arc du Triomphe. By the time we had walked there and back and around we were all pretty much exhausted and so we found food to bring back and make at our hostel and then we chilled. 

The 28th, Wed was spent picking up Christys friend Mandy and then going off to the lourve, where we waited in a 2 hour queue ( line up for all those not in the british lingo). It was a very massive line and it was also a very cold wet day so once we got in we were very happy to be there. We probably walked around for a good 2 and half hour, seeing the Mona lisa which is rather small and a whole bunch of other statures that have no clothes on and other paintings and artifacts. We were very done by the end up of it, all of our feet hurt and we were very hungry. It is defiantly a place where you can not see everything in one day you have to do a few days of it, in small chunks. We have realized that by us buying food and making it at the hostel we can eat for pretty much a euro a person. So we ate and watched movies and stayed up late, we had to change rooms again so the guys are in one room and the 4 girls are in another. 

Thursday, Mandy stayed back while the rest of us went out to find a walking tour. It took us awhile to find where this random group of people where meeting but we found them and we walked around Paris. We had perfect weather for it, it didnt rain and it wasnt overly cloudy, we had clear blue skies, however it was rather chilly but its been cold the whole time we have been here. On this walking tour we started at Saint Micheal Fountain and walked all the way to this militaire musuem. We saw lots and learn lots, we saw the famous bridge with all the drunk people heads on that the king wanted made. We did a lot of walking and we ended up going for lunch with the group at this cute little french restraunt where some of us ate duck which was really good and others ate frog legs which took too much effort to eat if you ask me. They where tiny, and not my favourite thing, I had the duck which was good and fatty. By the time it was done it was rather late so we made a early start back to the french version of Wal mart to pick up a very inexpensive but rather yummy dinner where we made grilled cheese and soup, With of course a few baguettes, they are soo cheep its like 40 cents for one and it can feed 4. 

Friday was a very busy and full day, we headed out for Versaille, which took longer to get to then we thought. We also managed to take the longest route possible but we made it and found it after a metro, a tram and a train ride. We also found starbucks, which was extremely expensive even for starbucks standards. Versaille is huge, we should have gotten there earlier becuase there is so much to see and we didnt have enough time to go through all the gardens. When you get there you first have to stand in a line the is like a maze to buy your tickets, which it turns out becuase we are in europe with visas for more then 6 months we could get in for free so we didnt have to stand in this line but we did just for kicks. Well we only realized half way through plus Mandy needed tickets which we made a short cut to the machines which no one was waiting for and made our way out of the first line of the day. But then we had to stand in another queue to get into the place this one was longer a good hour of so. Once we got in we walked around and in and through the palace and marvelled at the massive gorgeous detailed rooms and then wandered out to the gardens. Which have ponds and trees and all sorts of things, you have to walk through the garden to get to Marie Antionettes house, which was not as impressive as I thought it would be but cool to see none the less. Once we were done we had to make our way back to the city for me and Zachs date, yes that is right we are dating and we did go out for a very nice date in Paris with some amazing food at a very nice french restraunrant where I had Pumpkin and blue cheese soup and veal with figs and ricotta  and Zach had some lovely snails and streak tartare which is rare meat. He liked it, I cant say I am a very big fan. We shared an amazing hot chocolate cake which really I could have eaten two of them by my self. We went and walked to a cafe to have some coffee, coffee here is sooo ridiculously expensive and you get a rather small amount. We finished off the night by walking through Paris and admiring the eiffel tower all lite up from a distance. It was so cool cause you could only see about half of the tower the rest was hidden in the clouds. I must say it was a very very wonderful first date, with a very amazing boy. 

Saturday was New years and what do you do for new years eve in a foreign country, well you start by heading for a croissant at a local bakery which eat the most amazing piece of heaven ever. We then headed out to go visit Notre-Dame  which we waited in a 30 minute queue to get into to see this massive beautiful building. However if you ask me the outside of the building is far more impressive then inside. It is still magnificant inside but it does look very much like all the other cathedals I have visited but you should defiantly see it. We also decided we wanted to climb 400 stairs to get to the top however the problem with this was the fact that the line up to pay to climb stairs was a good two hour line, one of the slowest queues I have ever stood in before. Yes we did wait and we did climb some stairs. While we waited we went and ate some french food and took turns leaving this immensiley  horrible slow moving queue. The Q was defiantly worth it once you got to the top. You where able to see a beautiful view of Paris plus a view of the top of Notre-Dame gargols included. Yes you did have to go all the way down these very narrow circular stair case, which by the end you were very dizzy and your legs felt rather funny. That did not stop us from making our way to our next New years Eve stop.... The Eiffel Tower. Yes on our last day in Paris we finally made our way there to visit this rather famous piece of metal structure build as a radio tower. It was amazing truly it was, we got there just as it was getting dark so that the lights went on as we were waiting in yet another queue! This queue was not as long as Notre Dame but it was still on going. You had to wait to get your tickets, to go up the lift to up another lift, in all I think we spent a good 5 hours in at least one queue or another. On going joke is that we love queues we want to go in one make it to the front and go stand in another!!  We made it all the way to the very top and no words can describe how absolutely amazing it was, defiantly worth all the queues. I loved it, it was the moment I was long waiting for. I love Paris dont get me wrong but during the cloudy dreary days its not what you think it is suppose to look like but as soon as you get very high up on a clearish night that you can see all of Paris all lite up that is when you see the beauty of the city. Or at least when I see it. It was so sweet to be up there at night when all the houses are lite up and you can see little little cars and buildings defiantly worth it.  As we were walking I found a block that I thought I could jump up on but I missed and slipped and landed on my butt and bruising my self. It was lovely and rather a pain. We went for dinner after which wasnt the greatest we had a rather rude waiter and we think Brianna got food poisoning from. After we did that lovely experience we thought we'd make our way to the main part of the city to find somewhere for drinks and dessert. We found this fancy restraunt that we had creme brule and tiramasu  and we had some nice white wine. Afterward we walk to this famous bridge with all the heads on it and watched the eiffel tower as the count down took place, it was a wonderful full day with some amazing people. And now we are in a New Year 2012 here we come. 

Sunday being 1st of Jan. we up and left Paris, we were very happy to go and leave finally, however we were travelling with a very sick Brianna. We were all a little bit grumpy tired and just wanted to get here and so we are in Dublin and so far we love it here. It we walked around last night and found a nice pub where we had some massive amazing burger. I was glad to hit the sack last night. I wont bore you with our travel stories as I have already gone on rather long and if you are still reading that is pretty impressive. I am safe and sound here in Dublin in a very nice hostel. I am having a great time here, I miss you all at home and I will be home again in about 3 months dont worry, I am not going to stay over in Europe the rest of my life.  Continue to pray for safety and health but also for unity of the group that we can put up with each other for another week. We head back to Capers in a matter of a week. Lots of love Moriah