pictures-enjoy!!

these are some of the pictures of my trip there. they kinda go up from the bottom. it took me about 3 hours to get them on here, so i dont feel like moving them all around! :-)


this is the airport in manaus. its pretty small.

these next 3 pictures are of the screen in front of me. on the back of every seat was a tv screen. you could watch movies, listen to music, watch tv shows, or watch the progress of the trip. these are of the plane over brasil.

this is my trip up from sao paulo to manaus. a very stressful trip!

you can see miami. i flew from miami to sao paulo which is the big diamond. it was an overnight trip.

this is about an hour or so from sao paulo. its about 4 in the morning. needless to say i didnt sleep very well. :-/

this is what the plane looked like from my seat. there were blankets and pillows on your seats, as well as headphones for the movies. they even had foot rests for you!

tam airlines is....

'oh no! we are going to crash!!' not really, but funny story. we were on this plane, waiting to taxi to the runway and the power goes out. they said they just lost their ground power and they would be up and running soon (in about 30 seconds). after my first flight from new york being cancelled because of equipment failure, i was a little uneasy! but we were fine, i just had to pray really hard the whole time.

we are banking to come back to the miami airport.

this is the view of some water reserves. i guess they have them for public use...or so i was told.

this is only a small part of miami. i didnt realize how big it was until i flew over it!

this is the edge of miami as we are flying into. interesting how part of it is islands.

this is a cruise ship. we flew over the atlantic ocean part of the way to miami. pretty scary!!

hey look! its coshocton! :-D not really of course!

this is what i saw most of the way to miami..we followed the coastline.

pretty impressive road system.. the two branches are going out over water.

i dont have any pictures of sao paulo or manaus. i was over sao paulo in the middle of the night, and when we flew over manaus, i wasnt allowed to use the camera. all electronic equipment has to be turned off. :-/ maybe i can get some pictures of manaus when i leave.

these are all i can post for now. it takes an extreme amount of time to upload because of the dialup. we are hoping to get high speed friday so pray for that!!!! :-)

hope you enjoyed!

an update

As you all know, ive been here for about a week and a half. Its been pretty crazy. Wednesday was happy amazonas statehood day and Friday was happy independence day for brasil. So its been a very long holiday weekend with pretty much nothing ging on except rest and relaxation…. Haha. rest is hard with 3 kids running around with super hyperactivity. :-) its cool today with temperatures only being around 80 degrees compared to 111.4 on tuesday.

not much has happened really since ive gotten here. ive been playing with the kids, helping with whatever i can, and trying to drink lots of water. i cant tell yo uhow many mosquito bites ive gotten...i just pray that they were all clean!!

rachel is scheduled to have her surgery on wednesday morning, so she will be admitted tuesday night. she will then be in the hospital for 2 days, then on light bedrest for about a month. i will be staying here with the kids while ryan stays with rachel and works. there are some missionary ladies who will bring food and such for us the first few days. please pray for rachel to be calm, that the doctors hands would be guided, and for the procedure to be successful. rachel has had some numbness in her one leg, so we are praying that it wont get worse as the next step is losing feeling. so, Lord willing, the surgery will take care of that and the excruciating pain.

i have some pictures that i will post later today. the joy's house, the kids, and some misc. pictures that i thought would give a general picture of where i am and the things around me. ive taken about 2500 pictures since i left columbus, so i cant post them all. :-)

may the Lord be with you and guide you in everything you do.

i miss you all!