Back in the states...

Well, I have returned to the lovely USA and am finally getting around to telling you in this blog for lack of anything better to do.

I thoroughly enjoyed traveling around Europe, and it made me excited at the prospect of one day returning with Heike on our own versions of the "Wert-Williams" Tours. Obviously, we should be sure to marry guys whose last names start with the same letter, so we can carry on the alliteration. So far on the horizon is a potential boathouse rental around the mediteranian. I for one would love to go to Greece! (and so many other places). Traveling seems to be one of those unquenchable thirsts- the more you do it, the more you want to do it more.

I have posted a plethera of photos on facebook, and actually did sort through my photos and refrain from putting ones up from most of the random things I couldn't remember why I had even taken a picture of it. For this, you should be thankful and proud. Though, I still doubt many will actually look at them- it's the curse of the vacation pictures- no one else really cares as much as you do about the gorgeous view you saw. I was going to post some with this, but I haven't really figured out how to post pictures in blog posts and get it to go where I want it and look the way I want it to my satisfaction. So, you've been spared, heh.

People always ask how was the trip, and never seem satisfied with a simple "great!" but also don't really have the attention span for all the meticulous details I could go into. So, here are some bullet points:

Italy:

• beautiful
• creepy guys check you out a lot and lots of PDA
  
• really really good food
• class was intense and filled up the majority of my time

Prague:

• Lovely to just walk around
• Communism jokes!
• Strings concert that was beautiful
• Beer, meat, and cabbage is seemingly the only food

Berlin:

• Did the wall really only fall 20 years ago?
• So much history, so much change
• Had some of the coolest symbolism and simplist but moving memorials
• Spent 5 hours in the Jewish Museum

Amsterdam:

• beautiful, quaint houses, lots of bikers
• in some ways the city was really sad, in others really inspiring (re: red light district, anne frank house, museum of dutch resistance)
  
• really enjoyed fellowship at the christian hostel
• loved spending an afternoon in the country with windmills!

Wurzburg:

• very relaxing, nice to be in a real home again
• why is everything in germany so much cooler?
• bikes! and minigolf!
  
• wine and beer! and bratwurst!

Bamberg:

• Anna Page.

So, there you have it.

As far as the rest of my summer goes- I'm taking it week by week and hoping God will provide things to get me out of the house, because I hate being at home alone doing nothing all summer long. This week I'm doing VBS at church, next week I'm helping out with a summer camp for refugee children and families in the atlanta area. Hopefully I will babysit soon, because I have found myself in need of money, but the Lord will provide it all.

Currently, I am working on a couple of piano pieces- one from the pride and prejudice soundtrack and another from the amelie soundtrack. I'm also trying to find a book I feel like reading. And hoping to hang out with other people in the near future. Summer vacation is like starvation for an extrovert.