Some recent happenings....

Before our holiday in UK/Jamaica I had a rather manic week! It started on the Saturday before when our church put on a 'Discover' day for children. It was a day designed to share the gospel with the kids using 'the4points' and also our theme was the circus! We had a fantastic day, the kids really enjoyed it. I wrote a drama in which Charlie the clown is told the gospel by his fellow circus acts, I was the acrobat...at the risk of embarrassment...here are some pics of the day!

After that was the last week of term at Edukids, which came as a relief I must admit! On the last Thursday we had all the parents come and we put on a bit of a 'song and dance' for them with the children in the preschool. I think they are SOOOOO cute and so here is a little taster of their renditions of some age-old timeless preschool songs. (note the various accents...I work in a very international environment!)

Then, obviously, there was the UK and Jamaica holiday (see previous post)!

We got home early Friday evening and woke up on Saturday to beautiful sunshine and guess what we did...??? Yep! You guessed it, another VIA FERRATA!!

Then it was back to work for the both of us...until...

Le Tour De France!

'Le Tour' fever breaks out in our house around this time of year and we both take an avid interest (ok, maybe Mark takes more interest) in the riders and who's in what jersey. We had our first 'live' tour experience back in the summer of 2009 when we journeyed across France for our summer holidays and followed a couple of stages. We have some wonderful memories from that camping trip (our favourite holiday so far)...

Waiting for the riders to arrive July '09

Watching Lance Armstrong's determination was inspirational!

So this year we thought seen as we're neighbours with France now we'd go and catch another mountain stage (le Col de Golibier). It just so happened that it was also the 100 year anniversary of the Tour riding up the Col. So, in true Tour fashion we put some sleeping bags in the back of our car-come-campervan and pitched up at the side of the road with everyone else the night before the race was due to come through. Then we cycled, yes cycled up the Col to the top so we could watch the riders make the painstaking ride to the finish line. We found a really good spot around 450m away from the finish where the views of the mountains were spectacular and also where we could see the riders coming up the snake-like roads from a good distance. I think this is something we would like to do every year, and is an excellent day out, the great thing about this stage was that when all the riders had come past we got to ride down the way they had come up...fast! What a thrill!

Yes, we slept in there! It was surprisingly cosy!

The view form our 'hotel'!

Mark on the way up the col, we had to keep stopping so he could have a rest, he couldn't hack the ascent.  (yeah...right!)

So true, we do!

The finish line, at 2,600m above sea  level!

The caravan that comes through about 45minutes before the riders (like a carnival procession)

Waiting for the riders...

Waiting and wearing a free hat (they throw stuff out of the caravan floats...hey, we'll take any free stuff!)

Here comes Schleck, he won this stage with some daring tactics!

Le maillot jaune! The Frenchman Thomas Voeckler held the yellow jersey for quite a few stages this year, the French thought maybe they were in for a win. Cadel Evans (the rider in red) did enough in the time trial to finally win le Tour after too many years of coming in 2nd place!

The guy in green is Mark Cavendish (Britain's famous sprinter) Not much doing in the mountain stages but he's fast on the flat! He went on to win the sprint at the Champs Elise final stage for the 3rd time in a row!

So that was a fun day out...one last thing; I like to try on my dress every year (to make sure it still fits and to remember the special day when I wore it) It lives in England at ma and pa's house so I got to have a try-on whilst in Bradford...IT STILL FITS!

Hehehe! Well, we're heading to Creation Fest next week! Until then it's working for both of us. Then, we'll be soon celebrating our one year anniversary of being here in Switzerland! Wow, I can't believe it has been a year already...To God be the glory great things He has done! Looking forward to celebrating a year and praising God for his provision and faithfulness and love and grace and...oh I could go on and on!