But my " normal" life is still a very good life.
Since coming home from Australia, we went back to Australia for Joe and Rachel's wedding. We met our granddaughter there again with Aaron and Alice who came all the way from Holland for the wedding.
Mike came from Korea, and that was a bit of a mission. Long way and he had been very sick. It really was a miracle that he made it.
He has food poisoning or a stomach infection and had been dismissed from hospital a couple of day prior to him coming to Australia. But he gained strength with each day.
After that everyone came home for Christmas, except Mike, who had to go back teaching in Korea.
It was a busy time over Christmas, but great to have Violet with us and enjoy the beach, the pool and the river and just being together. Aunty Jan Haworth and me with Violet in Melbourne. Dec 2016.
In March we had house sitters for our 4 week Campervan trip, but instead, we had to wait for the weather to clear up and managed to go for 1 week around the East-cape. The Taranaki week ended up happening in June.
And now it's July, and time is marching on. We have had Mike back since middle of May and he has done a paint job in the old backpackers and now it looks like new and it has been upgraded to Airbnb. So now we charge $135- per night for 2 people including breakfast or $100- per night for 2 without.
Inn the meantime, I am already planning the next trip. This is to Holland, to visit Violet, in August. Mike is applying for a job in Chine, in Shen Zhen, 1 hour inland from Hong Kong. That means we could visit him on the way to Holland in July 2018. Stay with him for 1 week.
Then on to Holland and stay with Aaron and Alice and Violet, but as to not overstay our welcome, we will do some side trips to Belgium, to Ghent, Brugge, and Antwerp, and also Amsterdam, Giethoorn and other places.
After the 1st week of September, we will fly with Transavia to TelAviv and pick up a car from there and drive North to visit Yael and Allan, and also go up to the Carmel mountain range, see Haifa, visit Liat, stay for a couple of days in Kiryat Tivon, and then travel to the Sea of Galilee and stay with a nice Airbnb host that have a Farmstay like ours with horses, so hopefully do a horsetrek with views of the Sea of Galilee, and a day trip to the shores of the sea of Galilee and for for a ride on the " Faith Boat" that has a singer with songs of worship songs while we ride on the sea of Galilee. Also a visit to the Mount of Beatitudes is on the list.
And swimming in the sea of Galilee of course.
From there we hope to drive to Gan Hashlosha and Beit She'An and explore more there.
Anyway, I won't tell you the whole itinerary as it's too early for now, but we hope to stay 3 1/2 week to 4 weeks in Israel and join the IECJ in Jerusalem for their 7 day land package tour of their Feast of Tabernacles.
After that 7 day land tour, we will go from telAviv with Cathay Pacific via Hong Kong back to Auckland. So Israel is on the way back. So why not stop there and do the things we didn't do on our last trip to Israel.
As for now, well, it's July 2017. One year will go fast enough.
Plenty of things to do here.
In August( next month) I am booked to visit Joe and Rachel in Melbourne, and I'll be away for 12 days, 2 weekends with Joe and Rachel and in the middle of the week I am visiting Tim and Marie, the couple with 2 kids we met while I am living in Gisborne, Australia, with Robert Craig.
In the meantime I have been doing my usual riding. I got my Cheyenne back, a miracle story of a very loved horse that I was able to purchase back to myself .
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