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Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Don't you just love this day?!

A time to spend with family.
Aaaa-mazing food. Mashed Potatoes. Turkey. Pumpkin Pie.
Football. (Okay, not really, but it goes with the whole Thanksgiving theme.)
Giving. Food drives.
Prayer. Giving Thanks. Church.
The beginning of the Christmas season.

Thanksgiving is never that big of a deal at my family's house. But it is nice. Church in the morning. Turkey and mashed potatoes at my grandma's house. Cold turkey sandwiches for dinner. And sometimes a game of bowling. I love that we have this holiday and a time to reflect on all the things we are thankful for.

I hope that you are enjoying this day of thanks with your family and friends.

"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good.
His love endures forever."
Psalms 136:1

you can't stop the motion of the ocean...

I just got back from our school's Harvest Concert and now can't get this song out of my head! Love it though!

The H-Moon Finale

The rest of our honeymoon is going to be stuffed all into this post...I have other things to share and a day by day of our trip, just isn't productive enough for me.

Helsinki, Finland

I loved Finland. It was probably my favorite place that we visited. Helsinki was small enough to walk around and see everything. First, we stopped and saw two churches. And then we decided to venture off and find the Olympic stadium. It was a little more of a hike than anticipated and really not worth the hike, in my opinion...but we saw it nonetheless.
We also saw the Rock Church.



Stockholm, Sweden

Sweden was beautiful! The waterfront, the old buildings, the alleys full of unique shops. Also, home to Pippi Longstocking :) We went on a boat tour and stopped at the Vasa Museum.
You can see the 19th century war ship in the picture below.



Copenhagen, Denmark

All of the countries that we stopped at were just beautiful. Copenhagen was no exception with the canals, bright colors and intricate architecture. Close by to our port was The Little Mermaid Statue. We stopped to take pictures along with the other 100 tourists. It is a fairly large and busy city, so we joined in the bustle around the city, saw all of the main attractions, stopped and grabbed some hot dogs and cokes from a street vendor, and took a canal tour of Copenhagen.



My favorite picture from the trip! It is now hanging up in our living room.



Olso, Norway

This was the last port on our cruise. In all of the other cities we had been eying the bikes that everyone was riding to get around, so we decided to try some out. We went to the Tourist Office to get a card so we could get the bikes out from the racks that we all around the city. You could get a bike and then return it at a different bike rack in the city, which I though was cool. Anyways, the guy from the Tourist Office warned us that the bikes really were only for residents, but if we really wanted to risk it we would just have to sign something...so we signed and still lived to tell about it. We biked around the city and then stopped for lunch and decided to go to the Olympic Ski Jump. We took the tram to the stop that our travel guide claimed the ski jump was at. We walked and walked and walked and walked...but no sign of any ski jump. So, instead we saw the pretty view and got back on the tram. Perhaps next time we're in Oslo we'll finally find the ski jump.



So concludes our honeymoon...we had one more formal night on the cruise before heading back to the airport the next day to sadly return to Michigan.