Holy crap it’s been a while since I’ve blogged! It’s a bad habit to get into…..not blogging every day on vacation. Wednesday morning I woke up and got ready, then came down to the Mills’ room and watched the kids during their split devotional that they had and the kids and myself walked over to listen to the talk about the town we were shortly going to go visit, Arrowtown. The guy that gave the talk was very informative and had a power point presentation with pictures of the town. It used to be a mining town and was also inhabited by the Chinese. We took a bus over to Arrowtown, there was some BEAUTIFUL scenery on the way over. Upon our arrival to the town we took a walking tour of the town with many MANY photo opportunities. We saw a Catholic church that is where the first ordained Catholic woman (need to look this up b/c I know I have it wrong) grew up. The shopping area in the town is about two blocks long. We didn’t have long that day to shop and have lunch so I just shopped mostly and then had time for a bite afterwards. We saw the camps where the Chinese were settled on the other side of town, one of the sights where the Lord of the Rings was filmed on the river was in Arrowtown as well.
When we got back that afternoon some of the girls, myself, and Jen went shopping for a party they were having on Thursday night. We had a good time doing that shopping for that party together. They were very pleased with the results. I went on shopping by myself after that for a little while to look in some more of the stores and see if I couldn’t find a few more gifts and to look in some more of the stores that I hadn’t looked in yet or to go up some of the streets that I hadn’t explored yet. It was a really great afternoon.
We had dinner together that night and then had devotional as a group that night in Nathan and Jen’s room. It was just a time of singing and reading scripture. A really wonderful time to worship together with the mountains in the background!! I think after visiting for a while I went back up to my room and probably uploaded some pictures and then watched an episode of LOST.
Thursday morning I slept in a little bit and then woke up and went down to their room and watched the kiddos and got them breakfast so Nathan could go to class while Jen was finishing up teaching. So far I haven’t gotten any complaints on my breakfast (aka toast) making skills. Thank goodness!! I went back up to the room and got online and called mom and talked to her for a while. I got ready then Jen, Caleb, Ali, and myself walked to chapel which it turns out we missed so I went on my way to look around town for a bit. I knew I wanted to go up the ski lift which they call the “gondola” which is funny to me because the gondola is the boat I rode in Vegas in the Venetian. So I made my way towards the Gondola.
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