Carson's Trip to Salzburg (July)

Well, this is a few months old, but Carson went to Salzburg for a week at the beginning of July. He left on a Sunday morning and got back at 4am the following Saturday. While he was gone, I went to Paris with Jaime, and the day after he returned, we went to Scotland. A week after that, we packed up and came back to the States. So it was a busy time, and I never got the chance to get Carson's pictures from him, and then I forgot to do anything with them.

The group was small, and Carson really enjoyed the company of the others who studied with him. They were under the instruction of Kristen de Troyer, and Carson says that it was one of the best decisions he's made, going to do this. We went to Salzburg last August, and really thought the city was so beautiful, so I'm really glad that Carson got the chance to explore it and the surrounding area more closely. I don't necessarily know details of all the places he went, so here are just a bunch of pictures!

Carson's Trip to Berlin (August)

Carson went to Berlin for the ISBL (International Society of Biblical Literature) conference at the beginning of August. The airline lost his bag on the way over, so he had to buy all new clothes right away, and ended up sporting dress clothes with Chacos. Thankfully, Germans dress pretty casually, so perhaps it wasn't their usual uniform of Adidas sneakers, but the sandals worked out okay, and the whole thing was better than shorts and a t-shirt.

He stayed near the Berliner Dom and got to explore that area, and to visit the Pergamon Museum which we hadn't seen when we were there in June. He had a great time, enjoyed presenting his paper, and made some good connections. Here are a few pictures he took and sent to me.