Sunday - 14 July

Sunday was a most relaxing day. After a sleep-in, we had showers and breakfast and listened to a sermon from Reverend D Anderson about Exodus 6 - Moses and Aaron with the sign of the rod becoming a snake. It was a nice sermon and was good to see a different focus of that chapter. Afterwards, we had coffee, some lunch (Cup of Soup... mmmm) and then hopped in the car to pick up Oma. When we arrived, she was waiting for us, a bit nervous to go out as she wasn't really sure exactly where she was going. In the car, she relaxed a bit, stating that it was nice weather and asking some things. When we arrived at our house again, we sat down, had a cup of tea and some sausage rolls and talked a little. We commented to each other that all we'd done that morning was eat...first breakfast, then spiritual food, then coffee, then sausage rolls. :)
Then we played a game with Oma - Rummikub. She's played it before with us when she visited Australia so she did know how to play mostly. She was still a bit confused but we still got to play 2 games. By then Oma was getting tired so we thought we'd better bring her home again. Overall, it was nice for her to come over, and to talk to her without everyone around in the hostel.
We left the Amandelboom and drove a while to see dad's habitations of his childhood. However, before that we went past the graveyard to see the grave of Opa Amoraal. Here, we shed a few tears. In a way, the graveyard is a sad place but as Christians it is a happy place as we know that only the body remains, not the soul because that is in heaven with the Lord.
Afterwards, we went to the house in Hoeverlaken that he lived in from when he was about 14. Dad himself told us that only now did he realize how small the roads and his house was. It's probably because in Australia things are more spaced and a bit bigger than Holland. It was nice to see where he spent his teenage years though... :) After our nice Sunday drive, we drove home again.
We had some dinner, had a relaxing evening and then had a kind of early night :)