Knee Deep Flood!!

Yesterday, I laughed harder than I have laughed in my entire life. My friend Shannon from Milledgeville was in London so she came into Hertford for the day. It had been raining all day yesterday so there were a couple flood zones throughout Hertford. Anyway, Michael was driving me & jack and shannon back from the office and we decided to go a back way to avoid traffic.  We came around a turn and saw a HUGE flood area ahead and jack kept saying we weren't going to make it but Michael decided to drive through it anyway. Once we got about halfway through the miniature lake, all the lights on the dash lit up and Michaels car died!!!

It's pitch black outside. There are 4 of us squeezed inside the small british car along with laptops, cameras, and a flippin keyboard.... and we are stuck in a 3 feet deep pool of water. We opened the door and the water was seriously an inch from pouring in! Shannon, Jack, and I had to get out and push the car through freezing cold disgusting flood water and into an area that wasnt flooded!! We were laughing HYSTERICALLY!! And we laughed, and laughed... and laughed some more. Poor Shannon had to take a 45 minute train ride with her jeans wet up to her knees.

Okay, maybe you had to be there... but at least this provides a funny visual?

I'm trying to make the best of my last few days here but I can't wait to see my family, my friends, and my chicken fajita quesadilla from la parilla.

LOVE.

You Never Let Go!

Whenever I smell Abercrombie 8 perfume, it brings me back to middle school summer camps when my best friend, Whitley, and I would share the top bunk every year and that's all I could smell every night before we went to sleep!! Have you ever smelled a certain scent that brought you back to a place or memory as if it happened just yesterday? 

I experienced one of those huge flashback moments on Sunday night. The Hunter's had a night of worship and prayer at their house for Young Adults ages 18-25. At first everyone was just sitting around chatting and sipping tea (YES!) and eating yummy desserts, and then we played a get to know each other game. Now it was time to worship. We sang a few oldies but goodies... God of Wonders and Indescribable. It was cool to sing songs I haven't sung in a couple years and be reminded of their sweet truths.

Then, for the 3rd song we sang was You Never Let Go. I was INSTANTLY brought back to the memories of Hertfest. It was if I was still sitting in the second row, 3rd chair from the left, at the United Reform Church on July 31st in Hertford. If you were one of the England team members or one of the British Hertfest people that were there that day, I know you could never forget that day! The day we saw a glimpse of heaven. The day that the sun shone so bright through the stain glass windows you could feel the heat on your face! I pray that you can revisit that memory and see the "light that is coming for the heart that holds on!"

Go sing an old song, but listen with a different set of ears.

I'm coming home in 1o days! LOVE.