After 3 years living on the ship, it is taking time to adjust to life back here in Edinburgh.
We are back in our old house and going to the same church, but Heather and I are both doing different jobs and still trying to get used to different routines.
It's funny how you can forget how much time it takes to go food shopping, cook, clean up, keep a house and do all of the other "normal" things that most people take for granted.
Of course, it doesn't help when you have 6 weeks of school holidays, a month long mission at your church and all the other disruptions that the summer holidays bring.
The final week of Room 65 saw a Californian band called "Least of These" playing every night. They were excellent and Kara really took to them, especially the female lead singer, Katy.
So here we are now in September, the nights are drawing in, the kids are back at school and life is taking on some routine.
It has been great to have a number of ship friends visit over the past few weeks and it is always a bit surreal having people in your house that you have only known on the ship. Rob from Australia, Dawn from Scotland and Johann and Jael from Netherlands.
We also had some friends of friends visit - 2 Aussie girls traveling around Europe for a few months. It was fun introducing them to some Scottish culture.
Meanwhile, the Logos Hope has left Africa and is now in the Canary Islands. The time in West Africa was very signifcant with many lives changed by the visits to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ghana. The ship will soon be heading into the Mediterranean and then later on towards the Gulf region.
one final thought on life at home - it is harder to blog! On the ship, we were changing ports and countries every few weeks and there was so much going on. Now we are settling down again, there is the question, what will people want to hear. Ah well, I guess we need to find that out too!
Time will tell what makes good reading.
