Rounding out the "this is simple accommodation's?" posts, here is my current position.
After notifying my family by email and posting from Thursday morning's prayer I had lost interest in bothering to check my email or any other technology. However, Andrea and I have arrived at our host family and they offered use of this computer and left it sitting here running in my room, so how could I say no to that.
The two of us are staying with a lovely older couple, John and Wilma in Cabarita, NSW. They live in a relatively new apartment complex on Philip St with a lovely view of the water. The area was once all industry and has only recently been developed into residential in the last decade. They have a nice view of the water at 'France Bay' and a comfortable 3 bed, 2.5 bad 'unit.' Andrea and I have one room with a double bed and one with a twin bed on the floor which is quite comfy! We are just over a km to the ferry wharf that takes us down town - thats a cake walk!
Our hosts recently celebrated John's 85th birthday with ice cream cake, so they offered us some of that tonight along with some other 'nibblers.' John attempted to show us the Southern Cross constellation upon our request, but that will be better suited for the monastery when we return there. Anyway, rounding out the other interesting tidbits, John and Wilma have 8 children and 20 grandchildren and some great grandchildren...not sure the exact amount of the that, the story got a little fuzzy.
Hope all this information adds to your online journey of our pilgrimage - (maybe try to google our locations)! I can't wait to hop the ferry again tomorrow! Those 7 day transit passes were a GREAT choice!
Peace,
Laura
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What a great World Youth Day blog! I'm sorry to leave this in a post, but I couldn't find an e-mail address to reach you at. The Michigan Catholic newspaper would like to print a link to your blog, and also use a photo or two from it in the newspaper. I’d like to know a couple of things from you:
1. Is it okay for us to run this in The Michigan Catholic?
2. We really like the photo of the pilgrims on the ferry (Sunday, July 13 posting). Can you provide us with the names of the five pilgrims in that photo, from left to right? (we’d also like to use a whole group shot, but we don’t need names for that because there are too many to list in a caption, anyway.)
3. Is there a phone number we can call you at in Australia to do a couple of interviews for The Michigan Catholic? (We can reimburse for the cost of the minutes used).
If you’re able to, please let me know soon (I’m e-mailing you this in the middle of Monday night Sydney time. Our paper is printed in the middle of Tuesday night Sydney time).
Thank you so much, and I hope you’re all having a awesome and blessed time in Sydney! Look forward to hearing back from you.
May God bless.
Joe Kohn
The Michigan Catholic
phone: 313.224.8003 ext. 3
fax: 313.224.8009
e-mail: kohn@aod.org
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