at the top

it smelled like rotten eggs...you climb all that way and it has to smell so bad! but it was amazing to see...that is for sure! the volcano had blown 5 years earlier. that is why you see so much ash and gray everywhere...

hiking up mt. bromo

we rented horses for the kids cuz you can see in the middle photo that the volcano was a bit of hike...but we did it...THEN we got to the stairs...by that time i thought my legs were going to fall off and they became numb and i climbed. at least that way i didn't feel it :D

the jeep & faces on vacation on top of a mt.

Panoramic view of Mt. Bromo

you have to imagine in your mind that each picture goes to the right and this pans across the area of east java. b.e.a.u.t.i.ful

Mt. Bromo

this summer we visited a volcano. these are pictures in the jeep...just getting there. we rented the jeep and the guide...it reminded me of vacations when i was little and dad would take us up the mtns in colorado...doesn't this picture of the road remind you of that Hansen's???

presentations for human trafficking

we are trying to get into as many groupings of people as possible here to make awareness of human trafficking. we spoke to 200 middle schoolers on their first day of school. each year, this school- very near to our home- has 5-10 students who are victims of human trafficking...

just call me DR martha ;)

Greg had gone out snorkling about 7 months ago and stepped on some coral. it has bothered him ever since. this summer he was pampering it and soaking and it and trying to get the callous off his foot..thinking that is why it was so painful to walk. one night he showed me that he thought it was infected but i looked closer and it seemed to be a white ball that had come through the skin with all his file-ing of the skin...soooo...i got a little needle and began to poke it. it produced a white frosting and greg was in no pain. but if touched his skin he would not so much like that...so i pulled a little on the white part and could tell it was something alien to his foot...like a pearl...so after 20 min of getting up my nerve and greg telling me i had to...i pulled the thing out of the bottom of his foot! it left a hole that is now healed but it's amazing...greg is like an oyster :D his body created a pearl to protect itself...quite amazing...lucky for him i didn't charge too much for the whole thing!