Why I love my job....

Australia Part 1

This goes along with my last post of why I love my job. This past summer I was able to go to Australia with Makaila and my parents for two whole weeks. I was a little nervous leaving behind my husband and my 4 other kiddos. I honestly didn't know if I would make it the whole two weeks but I did. The trip was amazing and we loved it. I was a little worried about the 15 hour flight from LA but when you travel business elite you don't feel it. The last time I flew to New Zealand about 3 years ago I remember being tired for days and I think it took me two weeks to adjust to the time change. We landed in Sydney and I did not feel like I had been flying all night it was amazing. Once we arrived in Sydney and got through customs we took the train out of the airport and met up with Brother David Potts. We took the train down to Wollongong where we stayed a couple of nights with him. Brother Potts is an older man who has never married. He takes care of all the missionaries who serve in his area. Potts as we call him was very close with my brother when he served in Australia and comes out a couple of times a year and even came out to his wedding. Potts took us to the largest Buddhist Temple in the southern hemispere, down to at Kiama, and then into the coolest little town called Berry where we at a little bakery that made these amazing meat pies. I never liked meat pies growing up here but the meat pies in Australia are completely different then a meat pie here. We went to Seven Mile Beach and then drove through the mountains and countryside and saw waterfalls and beautiful mountains. We also saw where the missionary fell a few years ago. He is so lucky to be alive!!! I don't have pictures from this part of my trip because I didn't have an sd card in my camera and didn't know.