Estonia, Tallinn

A view of the "old" city.

The gang, except Sue who is taking the picture.

An Eastern Orthodox church in Talinn, Estonia.

The ferries that go to Finland...we were on the green one!

Birmingham, Alabama

Sixteenth Street Baptist. This is the church that was bombed on Sept. 15, 1963, killing four little girls and injuring 22 people, including a four-year old girl. It was undergoing major restoration while we were there.

The sanctuary of the church. The windows on the right were damaged in the 1963 bombing.


One of the stained glass windows. This window essentially survived the explosion except for the face of Jesus, which was blown out, and a very small bit of his red robe. Pictures after the explosion show the oval hole where the face used to be. Eerie.

As in more recent events, the world reacted to the horrific act. An artist in Wales designed this window, with a black Jesus being crucified, for the church after a dream. It replaced a window destroyed in the bombing. School children from Wales sent money to help in the restoration of the church.

The Mormon Temple. Not quite as impressive as "our" Temple in DC, but considering what they had to work with at the time it was built, pretty amazing. It took 40 years to build.

Our tour around Temple Square was conducted by these two young women, one from Germany and one from Alabama. They did quite a bit of proselitizing.

After a tour of Temple Square, we went to an organ concert at the Convention Center--the Tabernacle was closed to be "earthquake proofed." The center holds 21,000 people, although there were only about 25 there for the half-hour concert.