Sunday, November 11, 2007

Long Bay, New Zealand


It has been an eventful week. It was full time missionary transfer week and now that Miriam works in the mission office she was very busy. New Elders coming in and missionaries moving around. Miriam attended the transfer meeting and helped out in general. At the same time the Church was running a "Joy to the World" campaign on TV, so the office got almost 200 requests for a DVD just in the first day alone. That was exciting but it made for a busy but fun week for Miriam.
Miriam and I went and visited the little old lady that she met in the grocery store. Her name is Dorace. We went at night because her home is on the bay and she wanted us to see the beautiful view from her windows. I took a night picture with my cool camera that our kids gave us, so you can all enjoy it also. Dorace also has two borders at her home. Two young ladies, one from Taiwan and one from Korea. Well they weren't so young, one was 26 and the other was 39. It was fun to meet them and visit with them.
Saturday we drove up the coast a bit to a place called Long Bay. Its a huge park with lots of beach. It was a sunny day so a lot of people were out doing their beach thing. We saw some dolphins out in the ocean (we could see them jump). We took a trail that took us up to the top of some cliffs overlooking the ocean. There were two men up there para-sailing. They landed up where we were. We had a nice visit with them and they explained their sport to us a bit. So when you see a para-sailor in the pictures it is NOT me. But it sure looked peaceful and relaxing, and exciting.
We had a nice day walking the beach and enjoying being together. Sunday was a very nice day. We were invited to some other ex-pats home for a nice dinner. They work for the CES department. With a lot of schools in the islands they do a lot of work on the islands with teachers, seminary, institute etc. Enjoy the pics, we enjoyed being there.

1 comment:

Scott said...

I dont see any para-sailor in your picture album.

just sayin