Sunsets in Croatia

One of the perks of living in Hungary is its only a 8 hour drive to the Croatian coast, so this last week thats exactly what we did. Yes missionaries take holidays too, sorry if this dissillusions any one out there! But hey we get tired out too and just need some beach sitting time. Well ok not just beach sitting, dont want to make us sound too lazy. Our team mates Joska and Sandi were also heading for the coast so they very kindly offered to let us car pool with them, so they dropped us off on their way. We found this super cool town just south of Split and we weren't dissapointed, crystal clear water, nice sandy beachs and a old pirate town within a short walk. Ómis is a place full of character, a place where the town goes right up to shear cliffs, where the crystal clear sea is met by a kool-aid blue river and did i mention it was a old pirate town? i couldn't help but imagine as we sat, ate pizza and seafood... pirates running through the streets and women hanging out the windows, basically like the pirates of the caribbean ride! i know it was probably much different but whatever let me live in my dream. i didn't spot any parrots, wodden legs or patchs, oh well too bad.
One of the days we took a trip to visit the OM Logos Hope, a real pirate ship, ok just kidding the organization we work with has two ships and they are currently re-building a ship to replace one of them. the old one is actually the oldest sea going vessel in the world, so as you can imagine its high time for replacment. The ship is a former ferry from the Farrow Islands, (find that on a map) and is being re-fitted in Croatia. We went up and had a tour of the ship and then had lunch with the workers. Its simply put a huge project, amazing to see. The ship will be able to have 500 crew aboard, it has a ampheditre to hold meetings for 300-400 people and a huge area for the books, which is the main ministry of the ships. The project should be finished in the coming year and hopefully it'll be out floating soon and touring the world, but as we saw there is a whole lot more work to be done as you can imagine! The town that all this is being done is called Trogir just north of Split. we enjoyed walking the old town center which had a real venice feel to it, as in the look of the buildings, minus the streets of water. I love just getting lost in the little narrow cobblestone streets, and finding little hidden corners were you really get a feel for what these towns where like hundreads of years ago. On the drive back home from Croatia we had a one night stop of at a national park in Croatia, what an amazing place it was. In the park was 10 or so lakes that we all connected by waterfalls, the water was this amazing almost neon blue, almost like a glacier feed lake but these were not. All these lakes were connected by these cool walkways that hugged the cliffs and waters edge, it was really a surreal place, the pictures hardly do the place justice, so as you get the idea we loved croatia, the vacation was relaxing, refreshing, enjoyable and seeing the ship was a really good experience as well. So now its back to buisness, well work, ok ministry I guess thats the only real way to explain what we are back to. Tomorrow I (kyle) are off to the Erchi house project to help pour the floor, hopefully we can have the family in by next week and Lynnette is babysitting some team mates little girl, they are leading a training school for a couple weeks so we are helping were we can, now you see why I can only call it ministry because its a very all encompassing term that basically says, take each day as it comes and expect to be doing a whole variety of things, and thats exactly the way we want it to be!