We're on our way to Tanzania! After a stressful week of packing and goodbyes our journey to Tanzania is really happening! We are currently hanging out in Toronto, meeting with our mission's team from head office, sleeping in, and hanging out at the pool hotel before we continue on our way to Dar es Salaam via Amsterdam...

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• Tuesday morning leave from Vancouver
• Tuesday evening, dinner with EIC team in Toronto
• Wednesday morning, sleep in and swim
• Wednesday afternoon, fly out from Toronto
• Thursday morning, coffee with Andre's grandma at the airport in Amsterdam
• Thursday morning, fly out from Amsterdam
• Thursday night, arrive in Dar es Salaam
• Thursday night, spend the night in guest house
• Friday, 10-hour drive to our new home in Iringa

Thank you to our amazing family and support team for making this mission possible!!

Only a week to go till we leave!!! And it's time to say goodbye...

We have 2 goodbye parties to get together with our friends one last time.

1. Friday (17th) 5.30pm at Earl and Jennilee Pauls' place
2. Sunday (19th) after church at Rod and Anne Heppell's place 

Please let us know if you are joining us for one of these parties (and for the address).
Please bring a salad or dessert to share. Burgers are provided. Also bring chairs or a blanket to sit on.

We just got back from a 2800km roadtrip! And we have only 11 days left to pack up before we leave for Tanzania!

We are thankful for some great family time with both sides of our family. We spent a few days at our annual Otter Lake holiday with Andre's family and then continued on from there to spend a few days with Alex's family in the Fort St John area. It was good times spent with family -- we are grateful for the opportunity, sad about saying goodbyes, and thankful for safe travels.

Now it's time for some intense packing action as the countdown is on! Only 11 days to go! We have a lot of packing, sorting, and cleaning to do, figuring out what's suitcase worthy, what's worth storing for 5 years, and what to get rid of.

It's also a season of goodbyes as we see people for the last time before our departure date. If you're in our area, we do have 2 farewell parties coming up to say goodbye: July 17 bbq at the Pauls' place, and July 19 missions bbq after church (send us a message for details).

We fly out of Vancouver on July 21 and hope to arrive in our new home in Iringa on July 24!