Friends!

1.9.2012

So today is Tuesday and its pretty windy….non of the beaches look that nice. So we kinda just puts around town. Pairs called and said that she was house sitting and they had a pool. Since it was still warm out we thought we would go over there and hang out awhile. Better then doing nothing or getting sand all blown in your face. So we went over to these randoms peoples house, and they had such a beautiful back yard, he designs pools soo their pool was really cool and it all had rocks in it and it was just really pretty. We swam for a few hours, just hung out! Took some more silly pictures ( I still need to get from Bry) but then Paris and Sienna had to leave because it was meeting night. I am not sure why we didn’t go to meeting the whole time lol I brought my stuff to and everything but we just didn’t. So we headed home and on our way stopped at the movie rental to get some movies for tonight. We ended up renting 6 movies that were all 1 night rentals. When we got home we had dinner and then we played dictionary again. This time I was on Sarah and Daniels team. Lets just say Daniel isn’t the funnest to play with lol Anyway after that we had to start our movie marathon. We started with a girly movie One Day…the most depressing movie ever..I knew it would be but the girls wanted to watch it lol then we watched a couple others..I cant remember what they were but we only got through about 2 full ones until everyone was asleep…except for me! Lol Wednesday we all woke up and it was perfect! Perfect blue sky..no wind..perfect beaches!! So we went and layed out on the beach and just hung out all day. That night we were planning on heading home. Alyce had stuff she needed todo and it was supposed to rain on Thurs. so we didn’t mind leaving a day early. Everyone else was coming come the next day. So when we got back to the house I thought we would just pack up and leave. So I was all packed up and kinda just waiting around. Alyce was all packed up but just sitting there. Just hanging out, not acting like shes getting ready to go or not saying anything just sitting there. So after about an hour of that..shes got up all quick and was like ok lets go!! I was oh..ok! Little did I know we were planning to carpool with Matt. Lol SO we were driving for awhile. On our way up I noticed these but I actually got a picture this time..but all along the Motorway there is little bridges every so often. They are for the Fauna’s and Koalas to cross so they wont get hit by the cars. I thought it was sooo cute! I didn’t see any animals in any of them but I still liked them!

You cant see them that good.. Oh wells

When I got home, I unloaded all my stuff and then said thanks and bye to Alyce. When I put all my stuff in my room and went to say hi to Adam and Pip..Adam was right there, “We’ve missed you!!” and gave me a big hug!! That was nice, def made it feel like home. So then he went on about how tan I was and how I looked like a different person because I had so many freckles on my face and I had to tell them about what we did each day and it was good! On Thursday I had to get up pretty early and pack back up and head on out. I was headed to Mosman for a few days so I could see Racheal and all them before they left. So I think I left by 8am and got there around 9:30 - 10. Not a whole lot was going on we hung out for a bit, then we headed to Manly and the younger kids met up with some of the kids from the hall at this little waterslide thing. So me and Racheal just wandered around Manly and went shopping. I got a shirt, but she was getting souvenir stuff.

Then we went back home and hung out..talked about people we know again and talked about what were gonna do when I get back. Just random stuff. Played a few card games and a few games of dice. On Friday we just totally hung out for most the day, they were starting to pack up, but then we did manage to go down to the beach and walk around town a bit. Then we got ready to go, we were going over to a families for dinner from the Manly cong. They had a daughter that was about 19 and a son about 16. Madison the girl was super sweet and we got along good and talked about all the different places they have been and what she does down here and whatev whatev…lets just say they are very very wealthy. Lol It was lots of fun though. She said that we should meet up again…but lets see if that happens. Lol Anyway I had to still go home that night because I had Assembly the next morning. So once we left there house, it was about 10:30 and so the last ferry out that night was at mid-night…soo I still had some time to spare lol sooo we got back home and I think we played some more cards, watched a few dumb you tube videos. Then the time had come. I had to say goodbye to them, for the next 4 + months. Its amazing how close you can get with people in only a few weeks and spending bits of time with them but they really welcomed me into the family and made it feel like we had been friends all along. It was perfect timing, just what I needed. We even made plans to do stuff this summer when I get back soo it will be good to see them again! So off to the ferry I went. I was the only one on there and the ferry guy was all talking to me and everything and by the time I had to get off he had offered me a job at his bro-inlaws shop. Lol By the time I got home it was like 1:30 and then I still needed to shower and figure out what I was wearing and blah blah…lets just say I only got like 3 ½ to 4 hrs of sleep.

So on Sat I had to get up all early and do my hair and make some lunch. Rachel came about 8 and we headed to the Assembly Hall. We got there way faster then she expected soo we were super early…not that there was anything wrong with that. it’s a pretty big Hall hold about 6000 people. There was about 4500 there tops each day. I actually knew quite a few people I was surprised. Or maybe all the people I knew were just assaignd to this Assembly. Lol Assembly was good, I was totally un prepared. I left my notepad up in Forster and I had no candy at all L But It was all good. The C.O. is sooo funny he is Hungarian and soo he sounds just like Frànk from Father of the Bride. So it cracks me up listening to him but at the same time I have to listen very carefully because io can only understand a few words here and there.

Sandra & Bry

Alyce.Me.Rach

Me.Arah.Rach.Racheal

 I got recruited into helping clean, which wasn’t to bad, but we did bathrooms and I couldn’t believe how disgusting they were..not dirty dirty just papper towels all over the floor and water everywhere and mirrors were disgusting. Then I found out they don’t have people come clean them during the session. Which I thought was weird, with that many people you gotta keep on top of it. After everyone was going out because a girl from the Gladesville cong (where everyone else goes) got baptized. So we get there and there is sooooo many people, at one point I counted and there was over 40 people on this huge table that was super long…and more and more people kept coming and they had to keep on adding more and more tables to it lol I think we used up all but 5 tables. It was a lot of fun, everyone was laughing at me because I got chickie nuggets and chips off the kids menu but I didn’t care..they were yummy!! Then we went home.

Here's our 1/4 of the table

 I had Rachel drop me off at the towers so I could get notepad and candy. But K-Mart and everything was closed…blah. Coles was open though. So I found a dumb little notepad and I had tons of candy in my hands when I found the jackpot. All the Christmas candy 90% off!! YAY

So I got all these little chocolate balls and tons and tons of mini candy canes!!

Next morning, got picked up and off we went to Assembly. Met a lot of new people. Everyone was really nice. Rachel was making fun that I had Christmas candy but no one seemed to care…lol it was all gone fast enough. Besides all the candy canes I had at home lol There was a group going out somewhere but no one really wanted to go with them lol soo we decided to just have take away and go to the boys. (Ryan,Tong, Matt) We were smart and brought clothes this time, but I brought pants and it had warmed way up compared to this morning soo I was roasting! Especially when I was trying to get my moves on while playing Dance Central. I was doing that while a group was playing cards and then another bunch of people were watching a movie or something. Finally it got way to hot so I quit that and went for the ice cream and a movie! Then we went home.

I could finally just chillax and hang out with the girls. So Monday morning we just hung out. Watched all our cartoons and played Barbie and colored some pictures. By mid-day right after lunch I got a txt from Kathryn saying her and the boys are bored if we wanna come over we can….then she lures me even more…and you can come over and upload pictures or do whatever you need. Since the internet is limited I sometimes have to be careful on how much usage I am doing but since Alex works from home they have tons of Internet, so she totally got me by mentioning that. And it worked lol So we went over there and the kids just play all crazy and I uploaded my pictures. Then that night I worked on the dumb blog. I keep getting side tracked or it is taking way longer then I thought to get caught up with it. But I am trying! 2 more weeks and I will be all caught up!! Well that was my busy first week of the year!!

♥lynds