Thursday, June 21, 2012

Yesterday afternoon the three of us girls went on a walk to explore the rest of Moulton. It was lovely! There is an agricultural college right next door to the church so we went and looked around. It was very pretty around!
The flowers were so beautiful

As well as the structures.
After leaving the college we went walking down the street and came across the Moulton Parish Church. The word that could best describe it is just "wow!" This church building is older than America. It is hard to comprehend! 

Moulton Parish Church
After passing the church we came to a bridge with a lovely stream that cut through most of Moulton. As we were walking it felt like we were walking through the movies! The hedge rows as fences, the fields, etc. It was amazing!

Stream that goes through Moulton

Thatched roof cottage in town

Another shot of the Parish Church

Taken from the stream of the Parish Church

Beautiful estate

Look at the sky (and the airplane) ;)
The coolest thing is that their are random footpaths throughout the village. You can take your dogs and let them run in the public fields as well as have a picnic! :) it is absolutely gorgeous! (it may seem that I comment that everything I see is so pretty...cause it is!! ;) haha)

Public footpath and field
Now it brings us to today (Thursday)! Thursday is Mums & Tots! The church puts on a program called Toddle Inn that allows local moms to bring their children to play and enjoy the company of other moms. Also that their kids can enjoy an organized program with other toddlers! :) I had a blast!!!


The morning group!
The early morning group was the youngsters! I had so much fun and I got to hold a few babies!! :)) There was even a baby that was only 2 weeks old! He was absolutely precious! :) Can you tell I had a blast?  
Sweet baby Mark was 4 months old!
The late afternoon crowd was a little older. These were definitely a great playful group! I was so busy baking biscuits (cookies), holding babies (the doll kind), and rolling dough that I did not have a chance to take any pictures of these sweet kids! I had two little shadows! Annalese and Neeve were such sweet girls! When we sang songs and played music they were so excited! it was so interesting the songs that we are accustomed to singing are somewhat different here. For example the hokey pokey is called the okey kokey. I really enjoyed it! :) I am looking forward to next week to see and play with them again! I am also looking forward to tonight which is the Girls Brigade Awards Night! Meeting many new girls from the community as well as some of their parents! :) Today has been a day of forming relationships! I have really enjoyed meeting a wide variety of people of all different ages! :)

7 comments:

  1. Abby, it has been a joy to be able to actually feel that we can experience your journey with you. Thank you for blogging. We pray for you daily and continue to enjoy your Jesus walk as your Grandpa Lee used to say. Love and miss you. Grandma G

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    1. Thank you so much Grandma! I love you very much and miss you as well!

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  2. When is tea time?
    Do they have a special tea, like Earl Gray?
    Loved the photos.

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    1. Tea time is at 5:00..we usually will have it later cause we are quite busy. Most of the time we have it at 6 :) and Mr David loves Earl Gray tea! Personally it is not my favorite :/ I like the black tea that Mrs Beth likes! :) I am glad you enjoyed to photos! :) Love yall!

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  3. Abby, I'm enjoying your pictures/commentaries. It looks like you're having a wonderful visit there!!! We're continuing to keep you in our prayers!!! Love you!!!!

    Auntie

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  4. Aww girl thanks for sharing it's probably as close as I'll ever get. It's just not fair that you don't have to speak a foreign language. I'm stressing about that! Love ya,

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  5. Ryan, Hannah, and AvaJune 24, 2012 at 6:54 PM

    Love reading about your journey and seeing all the pictures. :) We love you and are praying for you! Ava says she loves you too. :)

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