After leaving the Ten Boom home, we wandered down the street to a large cathedral calledc St. Bavo’s, Haarlem. Haarlem is the name of the town and it is actually the town the Ten Boom family’s home is in. The original part of the church was damaged by fire in the 1300’s but in the 1500’s the church became what you see now. It began as a Catholilc Church but became Protestant in 1578.   This organ is called the Christian Muller organ and has 5068 pipes. The longest pipe is 32 feet. In 1766 Mozart, who was 10 years old at the time, played this organ and Handel also…

You might remember in the last post that I mentioned that when leaving DR Congo the flight attendants had sprayed what looked like air freshener throughout the plane. Well, thanks to someone who knew more than I did I found out that, more than likely, this was a scented insect killer to kill any mosquitoes that might be on the plane. They’ll do this to prevent mosquitoes getting transported to other countries that do not have malaria. Interesting tidbit that I thought you might like to know. While we had been in DR Congo, Serenity and her cousin were staying in the Netherlands with some friends. I’ll share a few…

Our night was short since we needed to leave for the airport at 3:30am. The streets were empty except for here and there when you would see one walking. I have no idea why they would be out and about at 3:30 in the morning. Our driver tells us that drinking is not a problem here like in the U.S. and smoking is frowned upon (which I know would not induce one to get up at 4 in the morning, but I thought it interesting none-the-less!) Driving along, viewing the empty streets that are usually filled with people we are completely unaware of the complications we will run into at…

The days had passed quickly since our arrival in the DR Congo and Sunday was to be our last full day there. We arrived at Zion Tabernacle (where the wedding had been held on Friday) and this time Sis. Sandy and I were taken immediately up front with our husbands to sit on the platform. They wanted to honor us Americans and they sure did everything they could to make us feel special. Fourteen other visiting ministers were there and sitting with us. But we were the only ladies. Maybe pastors wives experience this type of treatment often, not being one I wouldn’t know, but I have never been treated…

Thank you all for the kind comments on the travel posts. I’m so happy to hear you are enjoying them! This post is all about why we went to Congo in the first place – the wedding!  I took quite a bit of video so I’ve had to condense that because it was simply too long. You know how that goes… What a fun, fun experience the wedding was. I’ve never been to anything like it before so everything was fresh and exciting.  Remember: I was supposed to be all fixed up for this African wedding but my suitcase was lost, never to be seen again (even to this day) and…