Footloose

After a better than could have ever been expected 2 week stay with the Quesenberry family in northern Thailand the Campbell World Tour headed into Laos, and for the first time we really were on our own.
Our destination was the small city of Luang Prabang, and to get there involved a 2 day boat ride down the mighty Mekong River. Watching the jungle mountains, amazing rock formations croping out of the river, and passing villagers on the shore going about their daily life made this over crowded, bare bone boat one of the greatest trips of our lives. We really felt like we were in the middle of nowhere, as if we had stepped back into time. How anyone could doubt the existance of a god suprises me, because the beauty we took in was nothing less than spectacular.
Well if you were wondering we did make to Luang Prabang and have already enjoyed 3 fun filled days of long walks, cafes and the night market. For the record Cole would say that the night market was to much walking and he has had it with the whole walking and looking thing.
Today was our best family day in Laos as we took a Jumbo, which is a taxi where you sit in a small truck bed and do a top speed of about 35 mph, and headed to a national park that had the most incrediable swimming holes and jungle like waterfalls we have ever seen. Cole suprised us all by running to a rope swing and being the first to swing off a rock into the cool water below.
Tomorrow morning we take a 8+ hour bus ride to Vientiane the capital of Laos. There we will spend 3 nights with Francis Davey, the country manager for World Concern, and his family.
God's hand has been on us and we give Him thanks for answering the prayers of so many on our behalf. We now could use prayers as a family to just be one in the Spirit as everyone is starting to get on each others nerves a little and feeling a little out of sorts.
With Hope,
Kurt