FLOURISHING TREE BY THE LAKE: Trip to Luxembourg

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Trip to Luxembourg

Luxembourg was a 2hr drive from where we stay so we had been wanting to go there for a long time.Eventually a friend and his family were going there to see the christmas markets so they invited us to accompany them.As we were all getting in the cars..everyone checked their passports.Here in Europe some countries do check for passports as you are entering their country.Guess it was one of their normal procedures.Anyway..we remembered that we had forgotten ours at home so we had to all drive towards the direction of our house which is like 30-40 mins away from our friends.Got our passports and we were good to go.Luxembourg to my understanding was a very small country and you could actually walk from one end of the city to another in a day.Of cause i had to see this for myself.We got there @ about 3pm. Seems like some things were written in French while others were in German.We found out they these were the official languages of Luxembourg.The spoken language of the majority of the population was Luxembourgish.
We enjoyed ourselves walking around their christmas markets.Some of the things were really interesting like boiled wine.Dress styles were not that different from that of Germany.

WELCOME AND HOPE THIS PAGE FINDS YOU WELL

We are the Haines Family and are currently stationed in Rheinland Phalz Region - Ramstein Base , Germany under the United States Air Force.

Jacob and Lavenia Haines. Proud Parents of William and Brent and we have a wonderful dog, Sofi.

Jacob is originally from Kentucky, U.S.A and Lavenia is from the Fiji Islands in the Pacific Region.

William and Brent are both born here in Germany.

We have had paperworks to do. There is always a section where it asks for their nationality and we came up with "Gerijicans".( a mixture of the 3)

Ha!Ha! if only there was such word.

The name "Flourishing Tree By The Lake"!!

I had been thinking of making a blog but jst couldn't find a name to define who we were.During our afternoon walks,i would ask Jacob if he had a special name to describe our Family.He came up with an "Adventurous Family" since we are always out doing something as a family..I stood still and said,Honey..that's too general.He replied well that's what i got babe.So that night i stayed up late reading a book called Daily Inspiration by Rick Wareen.What struck me was a picture of a tree on the coverpage.And boom that name just came into my head,"Flourishing Tree By the Lake".I thought of it and it sure was a perfect name.Living lives is just like a tree,when we take good care of it..it blooms out and flourishes but if we don't ,it withers and dies away.Sometimes we fall but that shouldn't be a barrier..stand up, pull yourself together and move forward knowing that you are stronger than that obstacle that you had just faced.Are we perfect,No...because we are just human beings.Do we have the courage and capability to try...Yes.We have come a long way..still striving,still flourishing and will always continue to flourish no matter what the circumstances may be.We remember vivdly when we used to struggle,living paycheck to paycheck..life was hard but it made us appreciate life more which helped improve us to become better people.We had so much faith (still do) in ourselves,in each other and most importantly in God that nothing is impossible.