Life Goes On

I'd like to share a few pictures with you

Small Donkey - Heavy Load

When we travel through some of the small villages to get to the larger cities we run across some pretty interesting things.  We've often see these small burros pulling a cart heavily loaded with sticks or hay or other farm products.  It's a real paradox to see the farmer on top of the wagon talking on a cell phone or even working on a laptop computer.  I'm not sure what they use the sticks for - either as firewood or fence building.

YSA Dinner and Devotional

                                                                         
This year the stake president wants us to hold a dinner for the YSA group every other month.  At that dinner we serve a small setdown dinner and watch the world wide YSA devotional or other YSA broadcasts.  The young people really enjoy the dinner and being together.  I think they have been very successful.

Fun Afternoon at the Beach

We really enjoyed the Monday beach party a couple of weeks ago.  Some of the YSA and the sister missionaries just decided to bring some snacks and a few sausages and cook them up on the beach.  We played volleyball and had a nice time eating and talking.





Last time we went to Tirana Dixie said that we needed to get a picture of that :"Dr. Suess" building and send it home.  So here it is.  Some interesting architecture right in the heart of downtown Tirana.

Nice looking valentines

The YSA Valentine dance and conference was held in Durras again this year.  We had a couple of workshops, a dinner and a dance.

Which one is the real Albanian?

To celebrate Valentine day Dixie and I went to Logara (a national park) and on our way home we stopped at this restaurant and had some fresh sea bass.  The restaurant was decorated with old Albanian stuff.  This is a picture of one of the corners in the restaurant.  Traditional Albanian costumes but couldn't tell you from what period they are.