The Barker’s World

I cannot believe that we have not posted any Christmas pictures. I guess we’ve been too busy playing with all of our new goodies and getting back into the swing of things.

We had a great day today hanging out at the old harbor in Chania. I had heard that the RAF Red Arrows were going to be in town flying as part of the weekend’s Battle of Crete festivities. So, I got the crew up early this morning so we could head downtown and make sure [...]

Last Sunday, we rushed out of church and headed down the National Highway here in Crete on our way to Rethymno. Every year the largest Carnival parade on the island is held in this town. The drive was crazy as usual – the norm on the National Highway here – but we made it without [...]

This week has been relatively disruptive. The death of the teenager in Athens has been a platform for others to launch into riotous acts. Crete is also experiencing some of that trickle-down mob mentality. Matt shared a remark that a Greek woman had made to him, which is poignant and perhaps a little extreme. She [...]

Well, we’ve been in Crete for 3 weeks now, but before I start writing about that, I wanted to share some of the last photos we took before we left Heidelberg.
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Holgar and Angelyn Kuhn from our church invited us to their daughter Sarah’s birthday down by the Neckar River.  It was such a beautiful place to hang out; quite a popular place actually!  We had been wanting to go hang out down there for years, but for some reason or another we never made it.  [...]

On the 1st of September, we took a canoe trip with our church, Victory International.  We were a little hesitant at first because we weren’t sure if we should take just Tristan or be brave and take Gavin, too.  In the end, we took both the boys and were so impressed by how well they [...]

On my way to work today I had a little bit of a mishap.  As you can see from the picture below, my car is not exactly in the same condition this evening as it was when I left the house this morning…

Ever since I bought this car I have been meaning to have the [...]

Back in May we took our second trip to Tripsdrill.  We did this on Ginger’s birthday and we had a blast.  This time Tristan was big enough to go on quite a few more rides so he really enjoyed himself a lot more I think.  Fortunately there are plenty of rides for kids of all [...]

Just wanted to share that we are going to be staying in Germany a while longer.  How long?  Well…  for now we will be here until January of 2010.  A long time?  Maybe.   We’ll see.
Why?  Well after weighing the pros and cons, and throwing all of that out the window, we just really feel that [...]