The Final Stretch

Wow – can’t actually believe that we are only going to be in New Zealand for 7 more days! Crazy to think that time has gone so fast. With only one week to go, we have a jam packed last few days. Tonight (Friday) we went to good ol’ Workmans for dinner. Mmmm, it was my second time there today! Fat kid!!!

This weekend we are staying with our good friends Mark and Zoe (sorry Zo, I can’t find the dotty things) in Cambridge. Hopefully Saturday will involve some sort of sleep in or at least a nana nap, but we’ll have a nice curry in Hamilton on Saturday night with Mark, Zoe, Greg and Julie. Not too sure if I want to go home with Mark after – ah!

Sunday is our farewell 'see ya when we see ya' party thing at Totara Springs. Should be fun, hopefully no emotional trauma! Then back to Mark and Zoe’s Sunday night.

Ok, sooo exciting…Monday morning, we are going BLACK WATER RAFTING! I am stoked! Should be such awesome fun and as long as we don’t break anything, it’ll be great. The rafting is at the Waitomo Caves and then we’ll shoot up to Auckland to have dinner with the Burts. Yay for the steamboat – so yum. And of course, there will be the ritual Jamie/Maximillion rumble in the lounge, just to keep Max humble. Tuesday hopefully we’ll make a break to Dressmart to do some last minute touristy NZ shopping – go Canterbury outlet! That night, we’re heading up the Sky Tower with Marcus and Toni for a nice dinner. (Hmmm, there seems to be a trend that most of our socialising involves eating, uh oh, might have to buy extra seats on the plane!) Wednesday I am picking Deanna up from school for some cuzzie bonding time and hopefully a walk through Cornwell Park. Jamie is heading to Point England Primary to visit Russell and to hang out with Riverside Club. Should be cool! Wednesday night is the Barrow BBQ! We just couldn’t leave without some Barrow bonding time, especially since they roped in sister Jen! Thursday will be dinner with the fams at Rob and Suzanne’s house. It will be great to just be able to chill out and have a relax. Friday, hmmm, that will no doubt we panic attack day when we are scrambling to sort out last minute details. Good thing we don’t fly out till almost 10pm! Auckland airport rocks though cause you can check your bags and just hang out, shop and have a coffee with people before you have to go through. After a 12 hour flight to LA (which we have a 12 hour layover in – ah) we’ll take the 5 hour hop and skip over to the T-Dot. Thanks for the 6am pick up in Toronto, uh that might be why this flight was cheaper than the others. Anywho, that is our play by play for those of you who are curious as to what us unemployed people do all day – clearly we eat and shop, ah the life!

To those of you who we are leaving, we’ll miss you, and to those of you we are seeing after like 3 years, hey – gonna be great!

Ally.

Kids Camp!

120 Kids, 45 leaders, and 5 days of crazy fun. Our last Kids camp was great. The theme was Superhero's (Superheroes for Julie) and we played the most crazy games and had incredible fun. I love seeing the leaders we have steping up and doing such an amazing job...you guys are all amazing!


This is PK, the man that makes the fun and is going to look affter Kids Camp now I am gone. He is a champion!


Glen Storey, the champion communicator and story teller and discipliner of Kids. He was incredible at Kids Camp.


The Hydroslide, cos no story of Kids Camp is ever complete without it.

Easter 2006

Easter Youth 2006. 350 Youth for 4 days and it was awesome! We had great worship and speakers and some of New Zealands top Chritian bands. Most cool was about 20 teenagers who became Christians at Easter Youth and heaps more Youth who decided that they needed to get serious about living their lives for God.


Katikati Youth Worship band


Our stage for the sessions


Ally making Coffee at the Aduls cafe


Moped playing at the Youth Mainstage