Sunday's Top 8

Today was lovely, but I’m much too tired to write much tonight. But, not to worry, I will give you the Top 8 of today:

1. Skyping with the fam :) It really is just so wonderful to be able to “see” and hear them. Technology sure is amazing these days.
2. Skyping with McKenna and Lisa…Anna and I sure miss our roommates!
3. Pavlova: Sheryl decided it would be a good idea for us to perfect the pavlova while we’re here, attempting a new recipe or a new method each Sunday afternoon. Trial #1: Last Sunday, turned out more like a pavlova pizza, but still delicious—success! Trial #2: Today, turned out more like a pavlova dome, and then a pavlova cave when we put the whipped cream on, I liked the crunchy to soft ratio of the pavlova pizza better, but still delicious—success!
4. YSA FHE activity: the BYU girls who showed up made up about half the girls there…hope they don’t feel like we’re taking over. We heard there have been some hard feelings towards the BYU girls in the past from the NZ girls who think we’re taking their boys. We decided to just be their friends, and today was a big step in the right direction—we’re already friends with some of them!
5. Big Budda: you know that game we play called “Big Bootie?” Well, they call it “Big Budda” here. Haha. We thought we were just hearing it wrong because of their accents, but no, no, they really were saying Budda instead of Bootie. It was even funnier because the guy who stayed as the Big Budda the longest was this big Poly.
6. At church, there were these adorable twin girls who were sitting in a double stroller. They were ahead of me, and one of the little girls kept pressing her face against the mesh siding of the stroller, trying to get her fingers through the material to touch her face. She noticed me watching her, so I started making faces. She would try to hide, but every few seconds she would peek through to see me again. She was so cute, and got me so excited to get into Colwill school and teach all those cute kids!
7. Also at church, one of the YSA boys introduced us to a new term: mingle jingle. We related it to our version of mix and mingle, munch and mingle, have a cookie and take a lookie, etc., but he was insistent that mingle jingle was the best.
8. Sheryl bought us lots of fun New Zealand treats for this upcoming week: TimTams, crumpets, and the top brand of Hokey Pokey ice cream to name a few. We’re quite excited for that :)

Oh, and I’m trying real hard not to complain, but there is one thing that is driving me crazy—the Auzzie Mozzie:

I literally have over 20 mosquito bites on my right ankle/foot. And then at least another 20 or 30 on the rest of my body. I rarely get mosquito bites in the States, but apparently these mozzies like my blood more than any mosquitoes I’ve run into before :( But, I just gotta think, come what may and love it, right? So, I’ve been trying to think what I can love about this, and I decided it’s the healing gel Sheryl gave us to put on our bites—it’s from Fiji :)

Ok so I guess this wasn’t as short as I thought it was going to be—guess I had to more to say than I thought I did!