Same ocean, different view (through the playground "hamster" wheel)  We got to spend Sunday with dear friends serving here in NZ from Farmington, Utah, Lynn and Ann Summerhays.  They came up to Auckland to get a “view” of our mission. Just can't get enough of folks we hold dear...all of you included.   We've learned much about the blessing of great people in our lives.  So glad we share the views that relationships with dear ones, friends and family, go on. Views The sunrise on an early morning walk revealed "the house with the golden windows". As the little parable goes, it appears to the viewer to always be someone else's home...when in reality to someone else, its YOUR home in the right light... any window or home that reflects the light. May that be your home. Here was an interesting sign we hadn't viewed before, at a church house in South Auckland...so just take your football and cleats elsewhere. A View of the ...

After a year of writing blogs and in an effort not to bore you poor readers, I am often looking for something new or different…something unique.   We have a two week semester break and found a free afternoon so we visited an aquarium in Auckland where we found some rather unique (unique to us, but if you live in the ocean or in Antarctica they’ll just be “old-hat”) furry and fin-ny creatures.   We found a face only a mother blowfish could love.  Vance found it rather unique to be walking inside the tank with sharks swimming on all sides.  We s aw seahorses we didn’t know existed (we may have lived a sheltered life).   From squatty to skinny.    They all looked like they had arthritis…pretty stiff.   Poor guys. We had never seen a “carpet” or “woobegone” shark before.  They are common to the Pacific and get their name from the patterns on their skin that resemble patterns in a carpet.  They most often ...