Jonathan is Home For Christmas!

Jonathan arrived in Manila from England on December 16 where he had been staying with an English Family for three months.

Previously to that he had an exciting 8 months working on the cruise ship the Norwegian Jewel as manager of the fitness gym. The ship toured the Caribbean Islands and the Baltic Capitals in Europe. He has some amazing pictures of the places he has visited, met some wonderful people and has many great experiences too. Whilst on the ship he met Marika who works for the same company as he. She is a South African.

Jonathan & Marika

Jonathan's office on board the ship.

The Gym

The Aerobics Room

Kids Pool ( One of Five)

Fire Drill was part of his training. Here he is pictured on the far left

It is so good to have him home again with us and to be complete as a family for Christmas...

Meanwhile Joanna had her last day of school today (Dec 17) She will return to school for probably two more weeks in January and then she is done for ever with High school!

Early this month she and her classmates were making cookies at our home as a fundraiser to help a local orphanage near their school...They did very well and sold out of the cookies after a very short time. Good old Kiwi recipes! ha ha!

The packaging of the cookies was quite special too!

.............preparing the containers..........................