Colmar

So I needed a little break from all the travelling to all the big, ridiculous cities. 8 of us decided to go to Colmar, France. It's a little town in the Northeast of France, its really famous for an amazing, moving altarpiece. I'll come back to that in a bit.

We left Friday morning, we being Molly, Julia, Christy, Skylar, Aaron, Steven, Robert, and I. Sidenote: trains are the best form of transportation, you get on, you don't ave to drive, you sit in the super comfortable seat then the gentle rocking and humming put you to sleep, glorious.

Ok so we get there late, Robert had kinda hinted at the fact that he had reserved rooms for 5 and 3... we have 4 boys and 4 girls... someone is going to be alone with the opposite sex no matter how you split it up. We were trying to make this as least awkward as possible but.... I mean how do you do that? No one wants to be the first to say, "hey i'll sleep with the girls, or i'll sleep with the boys." We decide to throw odds or evens to randomly select roommates. It's like rock, paper, scissors you just throw a 1 or a 2. We're thinking this is going to take a little while but no.... first round all the girls and skylar throw 2's all the other boys threw 1's... funny. Made funnier by the fact that Skylar comes from a family of all boys... that's right... crash course in having sisters. Priceless times.

The museum we visited was in an old nunnery, it was so peaceful and beautiful. The altarpiece was exquisite but what got to me was the fact that there was an incredible depiction of Christ on the cross, a depiction that captured the grotesque pain and agony endured by a loving Savior for a hurting world, in the same room as depictions of saints and how they were martyred. The church has done so many horrible things, hurt so many people, killed some of the people it now canonizes, human being are capable of such atrocities, yet there is Christ hanging on the cross, knowing all we were capable of.... He is so GOOD.

I also got really camera happy on this trip but my internet isn't working right now so you'll just have to see them all when I get back. Love you guys, hope Juarez was amazing!!!

P.S. I am a weekend behind as in I went to Interlaken, Switzerland last weekend, but you really have to see the pictures of those so I'll post about that next weekend. This weekend I'm off to the Black Forest nd the Swiss Alps again.