Yikes stripes fruit stripe gum

Official monkey encounter! Humdreds of em. Even one that bared teeth within bite range of autumn. And yes amber, we got one in the backpack. Pictures soon will substantiate. Headed today from ubud to n bali in lovina. Miss you all

Endless summer II

Fried and by fried I mean fried rock hard chicken
Giant albino spiders
100 plus degrees
Humidity you have never experienced
Cheap taxi's
Good prices
Beautiful scenery
Sun tanning
mosquito nets
Bahasa Indonesia (language)
Open air everything
Crowded streets
Crazy but skillful drivers
Vendors everywhere
Taxi's honking at you constantly
Exotic flowers
Monkeys
Loudest thunder u ever heard
When it rains it really pours!
Muslim call to pray over loud speaker @5am and5pm
Many islands
Friendly locals.....

Moving on

Well friends,
Nicholas has survived his first and hopefully last bout of food poisoning! It was a tough last few days for him but the good lord has spared him and he is up and running!! We had to move to a new hotel yesterday and we were knot such huge fans of our new one so we are on the move again. We have wondered around Luda which is tourist capital and are ready to get back to the locals. All is well here we have ten days left and are getting ready to travel to some other islands. We will write more later. Thank you for the prayers for Nicholas. Blessings from the toasty roasty Bali beach.

Sun and sand and snooze and swimming pool and ssage(massage) in sanur. It's officially holiday!

Monsoons arive

Dear friends and family,
We greet you from a rainy(and by rainy, I mean torrential down poor, flooding rain) in Indonesia. We woke up to pouring down buckets of rain and had to reschedule our events for the day, as victor said the road to the orphanage is flooded and that would be to dangerous... We agreed and gladly went along with plan b of checking into our new cottage and relaxing for the day. It has been an adventure filled first week already where we taught in the primary school, Nicholas did a number
of preaching engagements, from teaching at their theology school, two church services, Sunday school and we have had some great conversations with the locals.
I got sick the second day we arrived(wouldn't you guess that) but I am starti g to feel a bit better and stronger each day...please keep the prayers going, and thank you for them (thanks amber for the Med advice)
the culture is so very different and very interesting to just sit back and watch. We have been learning bahasa Indonesia and between Nicholas saying the few words we know and me listening and trying to decipher what we are being told we are making progress. Every he in Bali has a Hindu temple. These range from a bamboo shelf with idols to a large intricately carved stone structure. They make offerings each day . For the muslms on the isla d there are calls to prayer over loud speakers. In contrast to this, yesterday we saw where the tourists stay... A segment of the island which is gated and guarded. A true border crossing experience.
Humidity is high like someone left a scalding shower running all day.
More later.
Love,
The Morgans

Live: Calvary Chapel bali

Well, we are here writing from Calvary Chapel Bali. We are enjoying our trip and had the opportunity today to speak to the theological school which meets here. There were pastors from around Bali, Lombok, and Java. Autumn and I attempted, also, to entertain the preschoolers and kindergartners with an english lesson. "vaccum, speaker, mp4 player, and microwave" were all vocab today. Headed out now to Kuta with Victor and his wife. We miss you all and love you lots.
From Indo,
Nick and Autumn

Chillin in Hong Kong

We are currently sitting in the airport in Hong Kong. We have been traveling for 28 hrs and have a 3 hour lay over here and then a six plus hour flight into Bali. We are running on a couple of hrs of cramped sleep, sitting up none the less, but are doing well. We were pleasantly surprised that our flight allowed for each passenger to have there own tv screen with unlimited shows and movies! In LA we spent 3 hrs walking around and exploring a strip of there down town trying to kill the 6 hour lay over. Where ever we land we just start walking and walk as long as we can as we know we will soon again be crammed into a plane for many hrs. Currently we are 13 hrs ahead of boise Idaho. Which makes it a bit odd... We are ready for dinner yet breakfast is all you can find. :)
We have been loving the different cultures and are trying to adjust to the already very humid temps. We have seen Gods many blessings for us through the first part of our journey already. This is all for now... Sorry if it made little sense as we are pretty exhausted. We will write next from Indonesia! Thank you for the prayers. Much love from the other side of the world!

The day is here! (4/13/10)

We finally have our bags packed, my survival food sorted and stored through out our bags and our plane tickets printed off! We leave tomorrow at 3:45pm and will fly to LA for a 5+ layover to then board the plane and fly to Hong Kong! From Hong Kong we will fly to Bali and will arrive Thursday mid day. After 28 hours of travel, it will be quite a time of adjusting as Bali is 15 hours ahead of Idaho, not to mention the culture shock.
I have posted a couple of pictures to the left of the lovely hotel we will be staying at for the first week, while working with Victor (Calvary Chapel Boise). We have an exciting first week filled with, orphanage visits, teaching preschoolers bible songs in English, to Nicholas preaching to many different types of groups; from their youth group to their bible study groups to Church and Sunday school. Please pray for the messages that Nicholas will deliver, as we are very excited to see God work. Thank you for your continued prayers, and my next post will be from Indonesia!

T minus 10 days--destination Indonesia

We have just returned from our crazy and fun road trip to and from Arizona. We had a blast visiting with Omy and GG (Nicholas' grandparents), Yuri and his new GF (wonderful old friends), Amanda and Austin (more great friends), and were able to spend a full week with Amber, Adam and Carson! We enjoyed the 85 degree weather that provided pool time, desert hiking and sun burns. It was hard to say goodbye to the Starks, but we had to begin our long journey back up North. Camping out in the back of our Jeep is our new favorite Hotel and very cost effective!
We have returned to Boise to begin crossing off our lists of strategic packing that is needed for our month long trip to Indonesia. We leave on April 13th and will return on May 7th. We hope to post updated news and pictures while we are there, so keep an eye out for our new blogs, and we would love to hear from you while we are overseas.