There have been many ups and downs. The highlight has been having our great friend Colin come for a 38 hour visit last weekend. It was such a blessing and encouragement to have him here, although we didn't get much sleep - we were doing a tour of the engine room at 1.15am.
Last Friday night it was great to go out with a group of friends and celebrate Heather's birthday properly after the disappointment of the previous week.
It was great to have Paul Coey from our church there as well. He was onboard as part of an IT summit.
I (Steve) have been run off my feet for the past 10 days. I have been responsible for the transfer of everything off Logos 2 onto Logos Hope, while at the same time trying to get all the offices set up onboard, organise a new service desk and still oversee the rest of my division.
We have also been inundated with guests on board including the IT summit and leaders from the organisation from UK and Germany, as well as a medical consultation.
Heather has been busy trying to get the clinic set up onboard and has now officially taken over as head nurse. The kids have been in holiday club while the school is getting set up. Today we learned that the teacher that Liam had for just a week before the ship came will not now be teaching him from next week, so it is more disruption for him.
We are excited to be onboard and today we had 5 real Christmas trees delivered to the ship, so we are starting to feel like Christmas is coming. The German Christmas market is not only found in Princes St in Edinburgh but they do actually have a great one here in Kiel so we hope to enjoy that before we leave to come home in 2 weeks.
Check out more photo's from the ships arrival in Kiel at http://picasaweb.google.com/stehevpackwood/LogosHopeArrivalInKiel
