Apple Store - Zürich

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Heather's friend from college is visiting with us for 10 days.  Hmm..... What do people want to see when visiting Switzerland?  How about the grand opening of a computer store?

This morning was the grand opening of the Apple Store in Zürich so we decided to head there for part of the day.

  

Right now you're either scratching your head wondering "WHY? I don't get it." or there are those (and you know who you are...)  thinking "Totally Awesome! – Wish I had a limited edition Swiss Apple Store T-shirt!".

For those in the first group wondering why, we did visit a more "normal" tourist attraction on the way home – Lenzburg castle.

  We arrived at the Apple Store early but didn't mind standing near the front of the line as we had nice weather.  We were entertained with watching the reaction of people passing by wondering about the looooong line winding around several blocks, security everywhere (the "brute squad" with dark suits/ties, huge muscles and sunglasses) and TV and radio station crews documenting the event.

Two minutes before 12 noon (opening time), about 15 Apple workers took a victory lap down the line of "excited" people, giving high fives, clapping, doing the "wave", etc..

The store workers cheered us as we entered (photo-bottom right) and handed us our T-shirt.  I even gave an interview (photo–bottom left) for the Zurich TV station – TeleZüri.  This is only the second Apple Store to include a glass staircase to a lower level .

There are Swiss jokes about how boring Zürich is ... today was an exception. ;-)

illustratedWORD since 1997

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It's hard to believe we've kept our family website going non-stop since the summer of 1997.  I no longer have the original layout but did locate the 1999 design for our startup page (bottom photo).

The Internet has evolved over the years in how people make use of it.  It's useful to have this form of instantaneous distribution to keep in touch with our family and friends around the world. While we're free to share more personal family & ministry details through our newsletters and emails, the website provides a way to complement the newsletters with vivid images and videos.

We look forward to blogging with more images of our family, ministry, and other "stuff".

CEF Vehicle Project

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This weekend we had the excitement of picking up our new (for us) car.  It's a 2 yr. old Nissan Note.  I'm sharing this on our blog as there were many who have been praying for this CEF project and gave financially toward the purchase of a ministry vehicle.

This car project was another example of how the Lord provided in an amazing, completely unexpected way and perfect timing!  We saw the same thing happen back in the 90s with our previous vehicle, where God provided in ways we never imagined.   

A BIG thank you to all who have prayed and given toward this project!

As with our previous vehicle, when driving this car We'll have another regular reminder of how God provides in His way and in His timing.  

PTL.