Tales from Tenerife

What a great vacation! And thanks to everyone for your well-wishes!

We had a nice time with my parents on the island of Tenerife and I can't believe how quickly the week flew by-! Some of the highlights were relaxing on a black sand beach (near Los Gigantos--note: black sand gets HOTTT when the sun is out!), driving on a steep, narrow, winding mountain road (to the town of Masca), jet-skiing on the Atlantic (but talk about rough waters and loads of salt water in the face!), eating authentic fish and chips at a British Pub (nowhere to be found in Dresden), discovering the peak of Mt. Teide after a few cloudy days (it's a dormant volcano and the tallest mountain in Spain), lounging by the pool at our resort (with a bit of swimming too), go-karting, and playing a paddle game on a golden sand beach (with a little Spanish boy racing me to get the ball whenever it'd hit the ground!).

It's already been a challenge compiling the few pictures we have so far off of every phone and camera and I hope to get even more off my parents' cameras too, but for now here's a collage of some of our adventures. The island was blooming with such colorful blooms and was such an interesting mix of cactus and palm trees, evergreens and flowering trees. God is so creative with the way he designed the various landscapes around the world!Caitlin was a great traveler, sleeping most of the time on the plane and being a super-trooper as we hauled her along on all our journeys. She even started sleeping 7+ hours through the night which gave us an extra holiday bonus with the unexpected additional sleep! We're now home for a couple of days before heading back out, this time to the east when we'll drive with my folks to meet up with our Polish relatives for a week on the coast of the Baltic Sea up north. I love this time of year with its much needed change of pace and a chance to be reunited with dear family!