June 3-9

Can you believe it's been one year??!!! Yes, on June 9th we celebrated our first year of marriage! We enjoyed the whole weeked, starting with Saturday afternoon in Wellington for our first-ever All Blacks game versus Ireland...it was wet and cold, but we won! We stayed Sunday/Monday in Paraparaumu at the Price's apartment beach house. The monday was absolutely perfect - the weather was warm and sunny (almost like an "indian summer" as we are in the end of fall/beginning of winter down here) and was great for shell-searching on the beach! We went back to Wellington for dinner at a Maori restaurant called Kai (which is Maori for "food"). It was a quaint place, with room enough for possibly 10-15 people, one cook and one waitresses. But their hospitality was warm and they were so excited about our anniversary - look at what they made us for dessert!! (Ken called a florist for the rose ahead of time to come out with dessert!)

Ken with the cake tin behind him where the All Blacks are warming up!

TRY!!!! (it's a type of score in rubgy)

Some crazy uni-student we met cheering for the All Blacks

The Tasman Sea outside the Price's apartment

Having breakfast


Getting ready to go to Wellington - my new dress

Dinner at Kai

Cozy, Maori feel





Happy Anniversary! First year!


Other exciting news this past week:

Trinity celebrated the opening of their new kitchen six months after the arson. It was such a fun celebration - a lot of people from St. Luke's showed up to support them and be part of the dedication. I led the music team that night - Ken and I love to play at Trinity. We all play so well together and it feels like it's for the right reason. It was a special night.

On Saturday Ken led the youth in a service event. Unfortunately only two youth came, but they had a great time playing in dirt! They did a street and garden clean-up and got done just before the rain came. The two youth that came were given donations by the owners of the garden/street for the mission trip coming up this labor weekend (in October). Hopefully other youth will take advantage of these opportunities to fundraise for the trips and activities of youth!