Michael, my host Dad had knee surgery the other afternoon so I
offered to cook dinner. You’d
think that I had made a 5 star meal… they were so cute! They loved it and it was really fun to
cook again finally! But what
really blessed me was the fact that the whole night was full of friends, church
members and family visiting and calling the family asking about how he is doing
and offering prayers. They are so
loved!
Yesterday was Anzac Day (kind of like our Veteran’s Day) and
we had the day off of school. I
slept over some friends’ house and then we got up early for a trek to the Blue
Mountains!!!! There were about 10
of us Americans and we met up with my friend, James, from one of my
classes. He lives up there and he
and two of his friends wanted to be our tour guides :)
We had a truly authentic Aussie experience! We hiked through the rainforests, rocks
and landslides in the mountains from about 10am to 5am… probably about 12 miles
or so. We went out to a “Ruined
Castle” (rock cliffs on the top of a mountain where we rock climbed at the top
and almost got blown off by the incredibly strong gusts that were
constant! It was an absolutely
beautiful day with clear skies and crisp fall air (the leaves were changing
too… I didn’t even know that happened out here!). The Aussies made us a makeshift fire in a cave at the top
and we cooked toast over it! It
was pretty hilarious actually.
After the long hike, which we all completely successfully… Thank God…
they had us over to James’ house for a Barbie! They even got us apple pie for us Americans!
Pretty much none of us had experienced such hospitality that
was so generous by new Aussie friends.
We laughed all day so hard and had an amazing and long day. After hours on the train too, we got
home exhausted and so satisfied with our day off :P
This day will not be
forgotten by any of us… so much fun!
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