Saturday 13th January
After a couple of early starts and late nights we took the opportunity to have a sleep in this morning. The children enjoyed their corn flakes for breakfast and James and Grace took Annette and I out for a Singaporean breakfast of fried carrot cake that neither looked or tasted like carrot cake and Singaporean coffee with condensed milk.
When we got home we packed our backpacks and headed off to Singapore Zoo - praying that the weather would clear. We had agreat day at the zoo and after some early rain it stayed clear most of the day. Ron and Marilyn met us at the zoo at 6pm and after having tea there at KFC we went together to the night safari which is a separate section of the zoo that focuses on nocturnal animals. It consists of a 45 minute tram ride with an optional 30 minute walk in the middle. We had a great but the kids were pretty tired by the time we got home. All of them fell asleep in the car.
Sunday 14th January
We walked to Bartley Christian Church this morning. There are a number of Balwyn families who attended this church prior to migrating to Australia. We went to the 11am service and Pastor William Lee (who was the guest speaker at last year's Balwyn church Easter camp) took us and the Freemans to lunch. After lunch we went to Dennis and Linda Heng's apartment with the Freemans and Lailin and Hao. The children swan in the pool (in the rain) supervised by the men while the women went shopping. We all went out for tea and a game of ten pin bowling. We got back to James and Grace's at 10pm.
About Me
- dobbo
- I've lived my whole life in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. I grew up on a 60 acre apple orchard and attended The Basin Primary School and Boronia High School. I left after Year 11 (aged 16) and worked on the family farm for one year then with the National Bank for 3 years before completing a BTh at Kingsley College. After a number of part-time pastoral positions I was involved in a church plant in Healesville and pastored there for 6 years. While I was there I completed a Master of Arts (Theology) at the Bible College of Victoria. I married Annette (McLauchlan) in 1993. We have three fantastic kids: Kate, Matthew and Thomas. I am currently Principal of Kingsley College and I'm completing a Doctor of Ministry as well as being a part of a new missional church plant called Mimos.
2 comments:
Sounds like you're having an amazing trip! See ya when you get back.
Peter, I just skim read your China postings. It sounds like quite it's been well worthwhile. I look forward to hearing more when you're back at Kingsley.
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