Happy Halloween!

Hope you all are having a fun Halloween. Rachel is a little sad that she can't go door to door saying "trick or treat" and getting lots of candy! But Jesse brought some candy home for her today, and let her pretend to go trick or treating, which she thought was quite fun.

Here's some pics of her "carving" her pumpkin.



Okay so I was going to try to post some more pictures, but for some reason this is all blogger is letting me post....so i'll try again later.

Rain, Rain, Go Away...

We've been getting a lot of rain lately. In the past 24 hours it has stopped raining for about 20 minutes total. The average rainfall in October is 348mm. In comparrison Virginia gets about 782mm of rain a year. So as you can tell I'm a little rained out. : )

Usually it is nice in the mornings and then around 4 gets cloudy & then starts to rain from 5pm onwards into the evening. We've also had some incrediable lightning storms too. God did give us a nice surprise the other day though. It was a beautiful rainbow. Here's a picture, looking at it from our balcony. (the picture doens't really do it justice-but do they ever?!)



Jesse's working hard putting the proposal together. He has to have it done by Nov. 11th. It looks like we will be coming back to the states early December. We are looking forward to seeing friends & family again, but not really looking forward to the cold weather. : ) Although at this point I think I would rather have snow than rain.

Pics of Rachel

Not much exciting stuff has been going on lately. But thought you might want to see more pics of Rachel, so here you go.

We went to an aquarium this week. It was pretty good. Lots of fish & they even had a small shark tank with 3 ft. reef sharks.


Today we went down to the nice hotel pool & then went to play on the beach. Rachel loves pretending she's a mermaid.



She's still too scared to go in the water, but that's probably best...I'm not sure how clean the water really is. (it's pretty close to the city, & I've seen what they throw in up there) : (

The Big Game

Today there is some tension in the Rudy household. You see, as most of you know Jesse is from Nebraska, and a die hard Husker fan. While we were still living in Virginia, one of our good friends, whose from Texas, taught Rachel how to do the hook 'em horns sign. Rachel caught on real fast that this really annoys her dad. So she is constantly running up to Jesse shouting "Hook 'em horns dad" with her hands making the sign. With which Jesse replies, "Go Big Red!". Rachel gets a real kick out of and so it goes on. : ) Today the Huskers play Texas. So far Jesse can't find a place to watch it, which I think might be a blessing for their relationship.

Settling Back In

Sorry that I haven't been on in a while. This past week has been a little hectic. Rachel & I got back to Sri Lanka Monday morning. And although Austria is only a 4 hour difference, we have been suffering trying to get back on a normal sleep schedule.

Rachel also has been sick all week. Some type of flu, my dad has had a similar thing as well this week. Thankfully she is finally back to her old self. But b/c of that I got behind on everything.

I didn't even get to unpack until Friday. & we had an ant problem in the kitchen, so everything had to be cleaned out. One great thing, is that while we were gone, we had the lady that cleans the office/John's place, come and clean our place once a week, so she came this week as well, and boy was that wonderful! It was great to finally feel a little more settled.

We are having problems with our vonage phone too. It will work at the office, but not at our house. Hopefully soon we can figure out what the problem is. Here's a picture of Jesse trying to rewire everything to try to get it to work. : )

Family Time

Just an update to let you know how we are doing. Last Friday (22nd) we flew to Vienna Austria to spend some time with my family. My sister & her husband had already arrived 2 days before we got here. We had a couple of days to hang out with them here in Vienna, before we all piled into a van and headed to Croatia. We picked up my brother & his girlfriend in Italy on our way down.


My parents had booked a guest house for us all, it was amazing. There were actually 3 little cottages, so we all had our own space, and a kitchen/living space outside for all of us. The owners were wonderful & it was just the perfect place! If you are ever going to go to Croatia,(which is beautiful) you need to stay here! We stayed in Croatia from Monday till Friday, and then drove back with everyone to Vienna.


We then just had a couple of days in Vienna before Jesse, Erik, & Lauren all left on Sunday, while Tamara & Brian left on Monday. So it's just Rachel & I left for the next week. It will be great to just have some relaxing time with the folks. : )


Also some great news! IJM has decided to let us stay in Sri Lanka. We feel really relieved on this decision. & Jesse is ready to really get back into work. Thank you for your prayers!