Today we went with the HUF (Harding University Florence) students to Chianti to harvest a grape vineyard. The drive alone was worth all the "work" of cutting the grapes off of the vine. It was beautiful! The entire experience was amazing. On the way to Chianti, we stopped at the cemetery of the American soldiers that fought in WWII. About 39% of the American soldiers who died in Italy are buried in one of the 2 cemeteries here. One is just south of Rome, and the other one here in Florence has over 4,000 soldiers buried here. The average age is 21-22. It was an educational, yet very sad thing to see.
The cemetery is very well maintained and beautiful
As always, you can click on any picture to see it larger
The vineyard that we helped harvest
Grapes! (Uve)
Freshly cut grapes!
Grape vines
Loading the tractor up with grapes
Eating the grapes
More grape vines"The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into the harvest."
After picking grapes all morning, we had a picnic lunch on a hill. We had dinner tonight at the villa with the HUF kids, and then Chad and I went to a Bible study at the church of Christ in Florence with David. We met some members including Giovanni, Carla, Mario, and Nancy (Mario's poodle) She seemed to understand much more Italian than me, so I know it's time to start practicing!!
2 comments:
I'm so glad you are blogging about your experience. All the pictures of Florence make me want to come back -it's been 5 years since we were there! I'm very proud of you and I'm so excited to be able to keep up with you through this. Paul and Riley say hi :)
It looks like all is going well - I will be anxious to keep up with your new adventure and will keep you in my prayers!
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