Lasses on tour...

Long time no post! Life has been busy recently, so many exciting things going on! I thought I would just share with you about the week where my flat mates for next year came to stay! It was so much fun, so much laughter! First I will introduce you to my gorgeous friends.. 

Me (Emma), Jenny, Hannah and Lucy

I love that photo so much! It makes me smile every time I see it. 

Lucy and I both live very near each other in Newcastle so Jenny and Hannah braved the journey across the border from Scotland to come and spend a few days with us. 

On our first afternoon after collecting everyone from the station we had a wander in Jesmond dene, I'm so blessed to have such a beautiful place on my doorstep. Then after our wander we obviously had to go for cake at my favourite local cafe D&D's! 

Us enjoying the views in the dene! 

On Tuesday we made the most of the incredibly blue skies and sun and took a trip to the beach. We had a wander round the pretty shops, I found a beautiful dress in a really cute little boutique shop. After the shops we walked to Tynemouth priory and had a picnic lunch and shared some chips. 

We then walked along the beach and went paddling in the freezing cold north sea! 

We then wandered further round the coast to a different bay and had ice cream from a really cute ice cream parlour! 

It was so lovely and sunny so we went and sat on the beach and sunbathed for the rest of the afternoon! We successfully managed to all fit on the same rug!

On our last full day together we got the train to Durham to spend the day exploring and shopping! We had a lovely lunch sat down by the river. 

We spent the rest of the time in Durham wandering, eating cake and taking selfies. 

We found a pretty little cupcake shop! 

We then made our way back to Newcastle and had a lovely Italian meal out together. 

On our last morning before Hannah and Jenny had to catch their trains we had breakfast together at my house. I cooked scrambled egg for everyone and we enjoyed our last little bit of time together before we all live together in September! 

Emmie x

The House of Grace...

This summer my brother is going on a trip with his youth group to Romania. I am so incredibly excited for him but also extremely jealous! I have been to the same place in Romania twice before in 2010 and 2012. The trip is to help run a bible camp for Romanian children who are from deprived areas and many of them would not get another holiday.

The camp is at Casa Harului (which translates to the house of grace.) It is such an amazing, beautiful and peaceful place. I would not be the person I am today if I had not been. Every trip we go with the aim to serve the Romanian leaders and children but each time we leave feeling like they have blessed us far more than we have blessed them!

It always amazes me how much joy the kids have considering many of them are from very difficult backgrounds. It means so much to me that we could bring them more joy through games, photos, songs and lots of other things. 

These are the girls from the team I went with, we have all grown up through church together so it was an amazing experience to go abroad and serve together.

This is Emma, a little girl I met on my first trip in 2010, she became my best friend for the week and we had a great time! Although I do think she was mainly attracted to me because we have the same name!!

In 2012 she was at the camp again and we had fun together again! It was lovely to see some of the children we had met before looking so much more grown up.

I love this picture so much, this little girl is called Andrea and she was just gorgeous! Gorgeous looking and gorgeous in nature. 

This Emma again, she is also gorgeous! She wrote me a letter all about how much she had missed me and how she hoped she would see me again! They were all such beautiful kids! I wish I was going back. 

I love this photo so much! It is the only photo of everyone! It makes me smile!

 The days were filled with lots of games and fun, here are a couple of pictures!

During the day there were a few meetings with everybody together. With games, silliness and some stories.

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This is a video we made about our last trip to Romania, I love it so much! It shows the craziness of an average day in the life at the camp. So much fun! 

Once the kids went to bed we had a bit of free time as a team. On both trips we lay on the field outside stargazing. AMAZING. As the camp is in the middle of nowhere the stars are so visible. In 2010 we were lucky enough to witness a meteor shower. AMAZING. Creation just makes me speechless sometimes!! 

I'll finish with this picture. I love it so much! So cute! 

Emmie x