OK, we are back, as of Wednesday evening. Our exactly two months away (a week in Toowoomba, nearly seven weeks in NZ, a weekend in Brisbane heading back plus a few nights) has been a brilliant time in so many ways. Now, we've returned, well prayed out from our home church in New Plymouth, and catapaulted out with a haka from the amazing CVT LinkNZ leadership training camp in Waikanae.
Every trip back is a valuable opportunity to load up on a few things for our life in Cambodia. Sue has enough vegemite to last us to the third grandchild ... so here's a few pics of what has been transported to 8c, Street 460:
With honey on top (thanks, Becs!) - books are very high on our 'bring back to Cambodia' list. Here are 9 of the 12 books squirrelled into our 20kg each airline allowance.
So few of the kids we see at the Healing Home have had childhood toys. We love to bring back toys that we can give away. Thank you Denise for most of these - the brown dog and the white teddy are already in the arms of two great kids who are at the Healing Home now.
Bringing back the family - Kara and Josh gave us this family pic for our mantle piece. Securely bubble-wrapped and boxed, this took up a third of my luggage space. A trusty Briscoes wok also travelled home (so hard to get a wok with a decent steel base here), plus a serious amount of chocolate (we made up bags of specialty choccies for our 8 staff to introduce them to a bit of culinary decadence). Unfortunately, my brie cheeses became pancakes in the journey home ... Oh, and there was a decent hand eggbeater too (pancakes are out Saturday morning ritual).
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