April Holiday Highlights

We were very blessed to be able to take our annual leave in April and go to Australia, which is our closest location out of PNG.  Having a fairly similar culture to the UK & Canada makes Australia a good, low stress vacation option for us.

We were able to stay in a Missionary House for 10 nights (for free) on Magnetic Island.  This enabled us to really get away, rest, and try to “re-group”.  The military term “R&R” (Rest and Recuperation) would really apply to what we needed after Shiv’s attack in January.  Thankfully, she was well enough to go for walks and carry her suitcase.

Being able to go to a restaurant for brunch, enjoy an ice cream milkshake, buy almost anything at the grocery store down the road (budget allowing!), and walk along the beach knowing we were safe, was such an amazing luxury and blessing! It’s the simple things…

The video shows a snap shot of getting to and from Australia and some of the things we got to enjoy whilst we were there.  Ryan’s highlight was seeing a Koala in the wild and walking along the beach at sunset. Shiv’s highlight was real ice cream and time do my cross-stitch whilst listening to an audio book. We are so blessed!

A massive thank you to everyone who prayed for us whilst we were on holiday! Thank you for standing with us through good times as well as bad.

Highlight reel of our recent holiday.