When we work 8+ hours in the mission office every week day - it is a little harder to find interesting things to blog about...so on our walk Saturday - that's our preparation day so we walk further and a different way - I took pictures of the endings of the sidewalks! Shel Silverstien would be happy about that! Anyway - as you can see they end at stop signs, fire hydrants, trees, and just end!
Friday evening we attended a wonderful concert at the University of the West Indies. The group was the University Singers and wow! they were so talented! Singing and dancing and just pure entertainment!! It was fun to be with the other senior couples and Pres. and Sister Hendricks -- just before the concert they said no photos so I took a picture of the stage - and the program! Don't they know I need to blog?
The former office couple would purchase a newspaper from a street seller each Friday on their way to the office. We come down the same street and he asked us a week ago where his other friends were? We told them they went home to Arizona. He is really nice and not pushy so we decided to get a paper each Friday also - they are only 50 dollars - about 50 cents. So we got our first one this Friday and it had this article about the South African Net Ball women's team coming to Jamaica for a three game series. It was interesting to read - Jamaica Sunshine Girls are ranked 4th in the world, and South Africa is ranked 6th - I'm not sure there are 10 teams in the world, but whatever! So at the end of our long trip around the end of the island we stopped at a Grocery store for supplies for Sunday and in the parking lot was a broken down small bus and several blond girls sitting on the curb...we noticed that it said South Africa on the back of their tank tops - so I wanted to talk to them. Elder Smith went into the store but I went over and it was the South Africa Girls Net Ball team - I asked if I could take their picture and they all agreed and jumped up - then one said I needed to be in the picture also and I said I will look too old and short! Aren't they cute? They had lost the Friday game to Jamaica by 15 shots, and they play again today and then on Tuesday - i told them to win Sunday to make the third game more exciting!!
Just when I think I've mastered how to do this blog thing - it changes and I no longer know what I'm doing! I used to could 'edit' and now I can't - oh well. Here are the elders in Port Antonio - Elder Rush and Elder Ostrin - we had lunch together. Also a red banana that Jody has growing in her front yard - very sweet and yummy. So there are three parts to our trip about the East end of the island.
On Saturday we drove to Yallahs, then to Darvey to help out a Church member - then we had to go to Morit Bay to pay a doctor bill - so we decided to just continue up the coast all the way to Port Antonio - we took some mail to the elders there and then continued on to Ocho Rios and then back to Kingston - took from 8 - 7 but it was lots of fun. Here are some pretty flowers we found, two huge palm trees in Morit Bay and some old sugar cane wagons parked in a cane field. This rocky point is the far East end of the island - beautiful! All in all a great day.
