Travels

So far this year I've spent a few days in Akron, Pennsylvania (work-related meetings), a week in Mississippi with Mennonite Disaster Service, and a weekend in BC. Einar will go to meetings in Des Moines, Iowa this month, but then the REAL travel begins.

From May 23 to June 5, I'll be on a Mennonite Central Committee Material Resources Learning Tour to Ukraine. There will be several other Material Resource Coordinators on this trip as well as 1 or 2 others. I am looking forward to seeing the country of my anscestors and learning much about MCC's work there.

Less than a week after I get back Einar & I will be going to Washington, DC for the Interstate Convention. These conventions have been highlights for me in the past: we stay in hotels I would never pay for from my own pocket, and the food and company is top-notch. I am looking forward to it again, but this year there are other trips occupying my mind!

Like our trip to Norway in August. Einar's cousins are planning a cousin-gathering, and we decided to go for that. Einar's sister, Liv, is coming with us, and it will be wonderful to be out there in summer, see the family there, and experience a bit more of Norway. It is such a beautiful country. This time seeing a fjord is at the top of my list (after family, of course!)

My own family gathering is in Manitoba in July, and we are heading there as well. I'm thinking I might actually get tired of traveling yet this year! No, probably not. Not as long as there's good scenery and people to shoot with my camera!