It was finally the day. The day that I had to take Sara to Perth to say goodbye. I couldn't believe that it had come so quick and I don't think she could either. We dropped the girls off at school and then we took Will to a friend's house so we could get an early start on our long drive to Perth.
Here is Sara saying good bye to the girls.
Such cute girls-all of them. :)
Here is Sara saying good bye to Cory.
Here is Sara saying good bye to Will. Such a cute photo. :)
And here is Sara with our friend, Ali, the day before at her farewell lunch.
There now, with all those good byes out of the way, we hit the road. The long boring road to Perth. We were rock stars though and just plowed through it. We didn't have to stop to pee not once! Which was good because we were trying to make it to the temple in time for the 4 o'clock session, which we barely made since we were having a hard time following the gps directions for too many reasons to get into here. ;) But I was pretty excited when I saw the sign for Walter Street and we were on it! Except we weren't looking for Walter Street we were looking for a different street. I was totally knackered (tired in Australian!) by that point! We did, in fact, find the street we were looking for and we made it to the temple session on time! :) It was a much needed change from the drive!
The Perth Australia Temple in all it's glory. Quite literally! ;)
Sara and Lena. Both single and adorable! Seriously, could these girls be any cuter? I loved both pictures of them, so I couldn't leave one out!
Me and Sara. I seriously don't think Sara could look any cuter in these photos! :)
Me being a photo bomber! It was just supposed to be of the temple!
There we go, that's more like it!
Sara being artistic with her photos again! ;) Angel Moroni
Me and Sara again.
So, funny story, I don't have a phone charger for my phone that works in the car. So by the time we made it to the temple my phone was dead, which is what we were using for our GPS because Sara or myself couldn't figure out how to get the Tomtom GPS that Karl so generously loaned us to work. So that is why we struggled to find the temple in the first place. Anyways, so I had a dead phone so after our session we went into the waiting area at the temple and I had to plug my phone in to charge. So we wandered around the very small temple grounds for a while to let my phone charge a bit. There were these cute little alcovey things behind the temple.
Here is Sara doing her princess pose by one. We decided they looked like a place where a Disney princess would sit at Disneyland.
Won't she make a beautiful princess bride one day???
There was this cool, oddly shaped fountain with another princess alcove behind it.
It was my turn to pose as a princess.
It's a good thing I've already done my princess bride thingy...
And here is another artistic photo from Sara. The back view of the temple with the fountain thingy. It was so great to be able to go to the temple at all and with Sara, that made it even better.
So with my phone charged up we were ready to hit the town. So we headed over to King's Park, a must see while in Perth.
Here Sara and I are at the whispering wall. Let me tell you it does work. So beware of what you are saying around the whispering wall, your conversation will carry all the way to the other side. People could easily eaves drop on your conversation. :)
Photo bombing once again, but that is the whole wall. It's pretty big. I was all the way on the other end and what I whispered Sara could hear. Pretty cool, huh?
The King's Park monument.
With the fire and the deep thought.
Close up of the monument.
Cute Sara.
Sara and Lena, once again too cute to decide which photo was better! ;)
Seriously, how cool is that??? I love that view!
These are the names of all the men who died in the Great War (I'm assuming that that means World War 1? Not too sure!) They are all listed on the walls underneath that big monument.
The look out. Gorgeous, isn't it?
Don't you just love the moving lights?? I love it!
I bet you can't guess what this massive thing is?
Not a monument or a tomb, a drinking fountain!!! I think that clean water used to be very hard to come by here in Western Australia. Don't you just love Lena's face here? It's like she just squirted herself in the face! Oh wait, she did!
There was this really massive,cool looking tree! So, of course, we had to take this cheesy looking picture with it! :)
After our fun at King's Park we headed over to the Hemi's house. They were the generous members in Perth who were letting us stay with them. Sister Hemi is the mother of the YSA leader here in Kalgoorlie, so that is the connection we had. Brother and Sister Hemi were so awesome! It was so great to be there because I felt just like I was at my own grandparents' house. It just felt like home. They got back from working in the temple that night so late and we all stayed up eating and talking until like 1 am!!! I am always amazed at the stamina of older people to stay up late! I don't know how they do it!!! It was great though! We all crashed after that and the bed they had for us to sleep in felt like the most comfortable bed in the entire world!!! It was a great day and sadly, I only had one day left with Sara!
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