Sunday 24 April 2011

Easter Sunday

After arriving safely we were greeted at the airport by Caryn, our GSE Coordinator, Phil, one of our hosts and Caryn's grand daughter Chasey and her best friend Emma with colourful handmade welcome banners in tow.

At Caryn's house we had our fifth meal of the day (dont judge us too harshly we were up at 3am!) and met up with our host families.  After being made to feel so welcome we had a wonderful first day with our new 'families'.  We all had an 'early' night (9.30/2.30am depending on your time zone!) and some of us even managed to squeeze in a sixth meal, while others in the team (who will remain anonymous) slept for 13 hours.....

Easter morning and the Easter Bunny arrived and with it the sun!  Two lucky individuals even found Easter baskets waiting for them on the breakfast table, whilst Ian and Wendy managed to walk off one of their meals from the day before!  Back at Caryn's house an Easter egg hunt ensued with Ian the first of the team, and possibly the first of the 'hunters', to find all of his eggs - well done that man!  Although we think we should have been a little quicker however, given that everyone else participating was under 12!


After another lovely meal at Caryn's house we attempted to walk off the homemade cookies with a visit to Caryn's clothes store where we had a lovely time buying gifts, and some of us even managed to purchase gifts for others!





Tomorrow looks to be another fun day - we will keep you posted!

1 comment:

  1. You lucky lot! - You will have the neck to come back and tell us how busy and exhausting a schedule you have had!!!
    And off to Cheers Bar tonight - get ready to shout 'Norm!!' when he comes in (unlikely...)
    Hope you haven't guzzled too many easter eggs.

    B

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