gardens and fins

This week has been a pretty slow week... hence the no postings... Josh and I are both working at Carey Park this week to earn the big bucks. Josh is a builder and I am a rock climbing instructor. Yep. Rock climbing instructor. So we've just been around camp with nothing really new to report.

One highlight... we met up with Josh's YWAM friends over in east Auckland again last weekend but this time there was a new addition... Katri from Finland! It was fun to finally meet Josh's old Fin friend from YWAM and she spoke PERFECT English... didn't even have an accent. She studies languages in school so English is just one of her 7 or 8 languages... and she doesn't even get them confused with one another! How impressed was I??

All the YWAMers, myself and their children went to Auckland's Botanical Gardens for the day. It's a really cool facility that has tons and tons of flowers and plants and trees and such -- very cool. Because it's very early spring at this point, not much was in bloom quite yet -- but the magnolia trees were in full bloom and gorgeous! It was a wonderful weekend surrounded by old (and new) friends and the great outdoors...