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On this day, July 3rd, one year ago, Nate and I met each other for the first time in Chennai, India. It was no kind of love at first sight, no choruses filled the air (unless you count the chorus … Continue reading
When you’re smilin’….keep on smilin’
The whole world smiles with you
And when you’re laughin’….keep on laughin’
The sun comes shinin’ through
But when you’re cryin’…. you bring on the rain
So stop your frownin’….be happy again
Cause when you’re smilin’….keep on smilin’
The whole world smiles with you
(instrumental break)
Oh when you’re smilin’….keep on smilin’
The whole world smiles with you
Ah when you’re laughin’….keep on laughin’
The sun comes shinin’ through
Now when you’re cryin’…. you bring on the rain
So stop that sighin’….be happy again
Cause when you’re smilin’….just keep on smilin’
And the whole world gonna smile with
The great big world will smile with
The whole wide world will smile with you
So we have pretty much planned out our whole europe adventure in, 50 days! It looks something like this, the three of them (Jaylene, Braden, Jodi) fly into rome on august 9th, and i will be waiting there for them, and then i will hug Jaylene for 15 minutes and maybe give her a kiss, and after that welcome Braden and Jodi to my city of Rome.
then we are there for a couple of nights and take the first of many trains up to florence, where we will only be for two nights and then we go north to Lake Como, to visit my heritage a bit. After the beautiful Lake Como we start the long journey to paris through switzerland, then we have a week in paris, with our own little apartment for the four of us, it shall be quiet fun. We will travel around france a little bit going out to the coast to normandy, and then to the Palace of versailles, and then going to DISNEYLAND PARIS, yup i’m a tad excited about that one. hehe. after this amazing week in paris we jump on another train to the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in south germany, in bavaria. Normal a ski town we will be there in the summer though so we can go hiking maybe mountain biking, there is so many options to choose from. after our outdoors adventures in Germany we head to Geniva Switzerland for one night, then onward to Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland for a little getaway before heading back to school for…well i guess both of us.
that about sums up our adventure as we know it, some thigns could change i guess, but we shall see…
i think our life is rather absurd right now (i won’t say crazy cause i say that all the time and it is a bit over used : ) anyways currently Jaylene is staying at my house in Lake Stevens, and she has met pretty much all of my family and close friends so far, and i’m not there. hehe
we have never had a normal dating relationship, and this just adds to the uniqueness of our dating life. I have to say though that i am very happy that she got the opportunity to meet my family and everyone and i really cant wait to meet her family in december, well her brother and Jodi in 50 days. I know 50 days it is coming up so fast when we will be in europe together, but i shall tell you a bit more about that later, in another post.
Ii do think an update might be in order, i (nate) curently find myself in israel, for another 5 weeks or so, and jaylene finds herself in caldwell idaho, for a couple more days as she continues on with the Act Here. Love Now. tour up the west coast.
And yet even as we are seperated by who knows how many miles we still find ways to fall even more in love with each other every day. wether it be throw messages and words we send to each other, gifts threw dropbox, or just spending hours getting to talk to each other, and talk about our life’s and future together. Yes, it is hard sometimes being separated this long, about six months now, we are going to make it threw, we have huge amounts of hope for Us. And we have already decide we never want to be abart this long again, and i think we can do it, after this crazy journey of track, i would be only be two hours away from her in Vancouver, and i think i can make that drive often to say the least. 
I love you jaylene adriel.
The Picture Pretty Much says it all.
Tonight, very late, as in 1:30am Sao Paulo time nate will get on a plane to fly directly to Johannesburg, South Africa. This flight is amazingly direct so he is rather blessed with that and that also means that i only have one flight number i need to remember in order to track his travel. (225 if you wanted to know) We are both stepping into a bit of an unknown on this one for us as we are not sure at all what our communication is going to look like during his time there. However we both have a growing peace about this time and so that has really been a wonderful thing that God has given us. We prayed for each other tonight and that was great as always and the thing that keeps on coming back to us to pray for is just that God’s grace would pour out over us. The lyrics of John Mark Mcmillan’s song, How He Loves Us where it says,
“We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.”
Coming to understand this truth more is what really helps bring in rest and peace for both of our hearts. So yeah, as we go forth into these next 47 days of South Africa we get to learn so much more about that.
[also, as a note, it is just 127 days until we are with each other again in rome! and that is just an amazing kind of fact. : ) ]
