We Went For a Walk!!!

-

 After living here for seven months, I was finally able to go for a walk.  Now that things have calmed down after the elections, we feel like its safe enough to go out as a group...as long as Cory or Sam is with us.  Last Sunday, Amelia, Cory, Jason, Ella and myself went for a walk around the block.  The block happens to be a mile and a half, which was lovely!!!  Jason rode his bike and had to hit every mud puddle there was!  




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Wednesday, January 29

-
Image
 Wednesday, January 29 was different. Morne didn't want anyone leaving the compound. We pulled the van in front of the gate for an added layer of security. Spent the morning cleaning the house, doing laundry & visiting with Leonie.  We went to a braai at Morne & Sisca's and snuck peeks of the cute puppies!
Read more

Painting of the Boston Temple

-
Image
 I love to have little crafts to work on to pass some time! I found this paint by numbers of the Boston Temple and I got it for Amelia. She served her mission in Boston and speaks so fondly of it.  I started painting it and then decided I wanted to capture the progress of it.   This is after 3 sessions of working on it. Took me awhile to finish it because I went home, but I got it done!!
Read more

Monday, February 3

-
Image
 This was our last day in Johannesburg before we left for our "holiday". We had a meeting with Marble Classic and they sent a driver for us. We met with the design team and looked over all the stone for the temple. It is an amazing process. They have beautiful slabs of granite and marble all over their warehouse.  Loved this quote on the shirts of the employees... From living earth to living room!   Here is the layout! The architect team walked around and looked for imperfections. I was a little bugged with some of the things they pointed out. It's a natural material, there will be imperfections! It was fascinating to me that they were able to keep the veins as they cut and placed the stones. These are the cutouts that created the pattern around the windows. I was able to take one! This is the corner stones that the architects want to be one solid piece of stone. Marble Classis had it 2 pieces with a seam you can't even see!  They say in transportation over 3 countri...
Read more