Thursday, March 11, 2010

Visit to Jerusalem February 2010











On the weekend of 20 February Liz and John organised a family gathering in Jerusalem, up the Whanganui River, to celebrate John's aunty's 93rd birthday. Sr Anna Maria Shortall is a Sister in the Home of Compassion and has lived in the community at Jerusalem for nearly 20 years.



Sr Anna Maria's sisters, Jane (Hokitika), Shelia (Napier) and Mary Jo (Blenheim) were all there. Also in attendance were Denis Pfahlert, Sue and Stuart Longly and their grandson, Linda Wealleans and friends of John and Liz's, Therese and Richard McTague of Lower Hutt.

It was a stunning weekend in terms of weather. We all stayed in the old convent. There was plenty of good food, company and swapping stories of days gone by.
Some of the Shortall clan from Feilding also visited for the day - Perry and Margaret Shortall, and Tom Shortall, and another whose name I've forgotten......


On the Saturday morning John & Liz walked "to the orchard" with Richard & Therese. It was a long walk uphill for about 1 & 1/2 hours uphill on a gravel road, and 3/4 hour back down, only to find that the orchard was about 500 metres from the convent!

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