Aussie Tuesdays 2

This is Marilyn, (far right) Jason met her while on his mission. They have been good friends ever since, she calls and chats with us for hours every couple months. I love it! Even before I met her we would talk for ever, once for two hours straight! I think meeting her was the thing I was most excited about. We went to visit her our second day there. Jason didn't remember which apt. they lived in so we knocked on a neighbor's door, who showed us the right one. And as luck would have it she didn't answer. Jason had emailed that we were coming. We thought we would go to a beach to see if she was just taking her kids to school.
I think we went to Maroubra beach first and then Bondi. Jason has a different memory than me and says this pix was taken on Maraoubra, but why would I want a pix of me there and not on the famous Bondi? Whatever beach it was I think its a cute pix of us.
All the beaches we visited (3) every one was windy, being winter they were VERY empty! We got lots of strange looks from the locals because we were so thinly layered for such a cold winter apparently it was their coldest winter in 20 yrs!....yeah right cold ! 60-70 degrees I kept telling every one there that that is nothing and normal spring weather for us. If they want a cold winter they should of been here a couple years back when we had a huge storm in Feb. '03and the heater at my mom's house went out...yeah that was cold.
Apparently the third time is the charm, Someone was home the third time! She asked who was at the door and when Jason said "its Elder Rino" (Marilyn still calls him that) she screamed! When she finally opened the door she was covering her face and laughing and then shut the door on us! She really couldn't believe it was us! It took her a while to calm down after she let us in and we stayed for a good while chatting. It was really good to finally met this awesome lady. I felt like we had always been friends with how much we would talk over the phone.
It turns out she never got our email, that's why she was so surprised. Her youngest boy was also getting baptized the saturday after we would be leaving, she really wanted us to change our flight so that Jason could baptize him. Jason blessed her daughter while on his mission, so it would of been really cool that he could of done that for her, but there was no way that we could change things around. Also the Saturday that we were there was the wards temple night...yeah and guess who forgot their temple recommend? Me! I was so mad! I had left it home!!! That was one of things on my list of things to do there..a temple session with Marilyn. grrr.....that WON'T happen next time.

Next week: A visit to the zoo!