All of the kids, except Ashton are out of school now! Spencer finished his last finals! All of the kids got a 4.0, so I’m proud of
the kids for going through such a tough time and new system and still held things
together! Ashton goes to school until
July 15th, which is even sooner than the local Luxembourgish
schools.
Kim and the kids went to a castle and medieval festival this
week. Kim said it was awesome, but the
kids were mediocre as there were lots of booths of interesting food, etc. They’ll blog about it as I was working.
We were excited to have the Leiningers visit this week. They are a great family from our home
neighborhood that moved in a few months before we left. They have a deaf son that just left on a
mission, actually the same mission as our nephew Dexter. They do a ton of humanitarian work and are
currently on a month long project in Morocco.
He’s a doctor and basically took all of his vacation at one time to be
able to help out. Pretty dang
impressive!
They came with their daughter Sara and their niece, Kassie. Spencer went on his first date after turning
16 with Sara. His friend Ryan took Kassie. They went to the chocolate house, walked
around the Grund, downtown and ended up at a cool park. They caught the last bus home at 11:55. We were all glad to see them because we could
finally go to sleep.
The funny thing about the date was that we were basically
doing the same thing us so we kept running into them. First we ate dinner at a Kehbab shop, then we
walked through the city. We saw them at
the Chocolate house, the Grund and the old church. Pretty funny!
Although the kids weren’t too amused!
They also swapped dates ½ way through the date, so we teased
Spencer that he actually got 2 for 1!
Spencer realized that it does take money to go on dates, so he’s been
busy reading and studying French today to earn money during the summer. Our kids don’t realize that next year life
changes for them as they’ll have real jobs.
Oh boy, life really begins!
The world cup started off this week with Brazil
winning. Spain lost, Portugal lost, so
we have lots of sad ward members and neighbors.
I’m really hoping that Brazil wins and goes far into the finals so I can
stay up late and watch the game in the town center on a big screen TV. I guess it is packed. Sort of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Sunday, the Leiningers went to church with us and Jake gave
an awesome lesson on why the boys should go on missions. After church Kim cooked a good meal and we
headed off to Vianden castle and the Diekirch WWII museum. It was fun going through everything again
with the Leiningers.
After the museum we had a great meal of authentic Italian
pizza. We ordered Maxi pizzas which
ended up being huge! Kim experimented by
eating it, so we’ll see if her itching gets worse over the next few days. Ashton made sure we didn’t forget gelato, so
we had some delicious passion fruit gelato.
That is quickly becoming our favorite flavor. We finished the evening off playing the name game and 7/11 number game.
The Leiningers left this morning and went to visit their
friend in Metz. Brother Leininger
actually served his mission in the Brussel’s mission so he knows French! It was really fun to see friends from
home. If anyone else wants to come we’d
love to show you around Luxembourg. It
only takes about a day! ;)
We are in the last week before we launch our product at Fund
Forum International. I’m really hoping once
we finish this week and the week at the tradeshow that my hours go down
significantly. We’ll still be pushing to
get customers from here on out, but hopefully that can happen during normal
business hours!
The weather this week was back down to nice and cool 65 to 70. We're sure happy for that after our short time in the upper 80s!
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