cinco

Five more days until our big departure! Brooke looked at me today and said, "We're really doing this. Whoa." Whoa indeed.

We are back in St. Louis after a good, but tiring time in Michigan. We spent our time up in the homeland saying goodbye to many friends and family. We tried to convince everybody that our leaving Michigan wasn't much different than usual since we'd be back in December, nobody really bought it though. Something about going to the other side of the planet feels different to grandmothers than just traveling a few states over. Brooke has posted pictures of some of the people we got to see and will probably post more in the next few days.

On our way back to STL we stopped off at Wheaton College to say goodbye to one of Brooke's girls, Rachael, who was gone most of the summer. We spent the afternoon with her and had dinner before driving the last leg back home, though "home" is a relative term for us these days.

While we were hanging out with Rachael we stopped in at a local coffee shop, La Spiaza. Nice place, good Americano. While there Brooke found the following quote in the restroom:
"The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks."

Oh how I wish this were true. I'd be a genius.