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Christmas is only one week away and the shoppers were out in full force today here in Toulouse (This photo is of rue St. Rome, a street with a lot of shops, similar to nicolete mall). It’s so bizare that a culture so distant from religion and God is still so feverish over the giving of gifts. So many of the surface level activities of the church are left here (like not working on sunday, almost EVERYTHING is closed sundays) while God is lost. Please pray for this season to become more real to those who are here.

Last Saturday Tiffany and I met up with a friend in her home town of Albi, France and we saw this beautiful church. This is a great shot to capture the size and detail that went into making the whole church. It is the Cathedrale Ste. Célice if anyone cares to look up more information on it. The trip was a lot of fun even if it was quite a bit colder than expected that day.

Recent Earthquakes
2005/12/13 Fiji (6.3)
2005/12/12 Afghanistan and Pakistan (6.7)
2005/12/11 Papua New Guinea (6.8)
2005/12/05 Congo (6.8)
2005/12/02 Northern Japan (6.4)
2005/11/27 Southern Iran (5.9)
2005/11/27 China (5.7)
2005/11/19 Indonesia (6.2)
2005/11/17 Chile and Bolivia (6.9)
2005/11/14 Northern Japan (6.9)
2005/10/21 Turkey (5.9)
2005/10/19 Eastern Japan (6.5)
2005/10/16 Eastern Japan (5.1)
2005/10/15 Taiwan (7.0)
2005/10/08 Pakistan, India, Afghanistan (7.6)
2005/10/08 California (4.2) weak
2005/10/07 El Salvador and Guatemala (5.5)
2005/09/26 Northern Peru (7.5)

I put the last one on there because it was a major quake and only a couple days outside of october. Intersting to me because I landed in France on teh 6th of October… Hmmm, yea. Not sure where I’m going with that. 15 since I’ve been here for 10 weeks… More then one a week.

Update: Just added another one from Fiji (that is two within 24 hours)

The blog wouldn’t be complete without a shot of coffee served in france. Mmmm hard stuff. It’s interested because I add the sugar when I get hot chocolate but not when I get coffee. Hmmmm. I think it’s interesting anyway.

We don’t really have a change in colors here like I’m used to, they tend to just fall off of the trees. It’s very interesting. Here is a shot down one of the sidewalks near the river, one man out for a run. It was beautiful today.