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Brigadoon At Bundanoon

Brigadoon at Bundanoon was a Scottish festival named after the musical that was written in the 1940's about a town in Scotland. You can read the newsletter for this week for more details. It was a long day, hot in the sun, very cool in the shade. The food booths were great. The other booths left much to be desired if you weren't into Scottish paraphernalia. The games were interesting but the crowds of people made the day a battle to see anything up close and personal.

Yak

Interesting bagpipe

Jay eating a brekkie sandwich-sausage, bacon, onions, fried egg on a bun with barbeque sauce.

Scottish dress-check out those socks and laces.

Cute boy in Scottish dress.

Elizabeth and Loanne & Paul Bartholomew

Lifting the stones competitors.

Lifting the stone - it weighed 125 kgm.

The stones

Scottish bag pipe bands

Royal Easter Show

The Royal Easter Show was great fun. There was a lot to see and buy. The food booths were good. There was no lack of variety. Jay got really tired and his feet hurt. I was good to go all day.

Pied Piper Duck Fashion Show

Here Comes the Bride.

Food dispay.

Food display.

Cake Decorating Contest

Neuschwanstein Cake

Baby Cake

Shearing sheep.

Parade

Dundas Flats

I am really not desparate for items to post. I just thought you all might be interested in our environs such as decorations in our flat, our building and our car!
Our parking space is very tight, especially when our dear friends, the Warbys, are parked in their space next to us. I purposely delay my drive home from the gym in the mornings until after they have left for work!

A generic picture of the flats when they were new.

Driveway by the flats leading to parking lot in between the two buildings.

Parking lot and back building of flats.

Our car in the worst parking space in the lot.

Front of our building. We are the 2nd floor two windows on the left.

Aboriginal painting done by a famous artist, Edna Watson.

Family Picture Wall

Vase with Aborigianl designs and flowers.

Friends & Family

I decided I would include a potpourri of pictures of our friends from the office and church. Sister McKnight is a Family History missionary from Boise, Idaho and is extremely savy, intelligent and a lot of fun. Her sense of humor is catching and she and Jay really go the rounds. She loves to tease him and he gives it right back! Her roommate is Sister McLaughlin. Elder and Sister Bakes are our best friends here and when given a choice we do everything with them.

Our best friend and neighbor both at work and home. Elder Bakes, the legal missionary; Elder Oldroyd, the medical missionary.

The Call Center Team: Sister McLaughlin, Sister Woolley (from Tasmania and now home), Sister Oldroyd, Sister McKnight.

Elizabeth and Stephen Allen - a night with my brother.

Steve doing what he does best - training the missionaries!

Sister McKnight - a wonderful Sunday School teacher and friend.

February 23, 2008

I can't believe that I have not updated the blog since February. Maybe it is because I find it difficult to manage so I have a mental block about updating it. However, today I will try to catch up on the pictures of our P-Day outings to give a flavor of what Sydney has to offer senior missionaries on their down days!

I will begin with an outing we took the last of February with Paul and Loanne Bartholomew. They are senior missionaries working in the Welfare and Humanitarian Services which are located in the Buckland House, the Area office building. They are from North Carolina and have become good friends. They live across the hall from us.

On this day we made the rounds. We drove to downtown Sydney, parked the car in an all day for $10 parking lot (both of the them are not eligible for senior cards so that was a cheaper way to get into town). We spent a couple of hours at the Rocks, viewing the Queen Victoria, then we drove to Windsor, a cute town on the Hawkesbury River, about 45 mintues from our flats. Our purpose in going to Windsor was to buy hat boxes for the men who had purchased a number of Aussie hats and needed a box to store them in.

We visited the Sydney Olympic Park Water Venue site out near Penrith on the way home. It was a busy day.

Queen Victoria in the background.
Queen Victoria - she was huge!
Elizabeth by the water wheel in Windsor.
Jay and Paul Bartholomew with their hat boxes.
Olympic rings at the Water Park Venue.

Sydney Olympic Water Venue