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| Model of temple in Jesus day |
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| Bethel Family Worship room |
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| Massive Laundry |
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| Dining room for 1300 people, all at once |
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| With our tour guide, Tina |
We had breakfast overlooking Times Square this morning. I sat there thinking of all the views Ive had whilst dining on my breakfast . . . . Im a very lucky girl.
We picked up a car and drove out to Paterson today. Its nearly a two hour drive out, if you hit traffic, which we did. The roads here are crazy, so many different freeways and tolls. On our trip home we paid $13, just in tolls.
We got to Patterson at lunchtime. Its located on Watchtower drive. We had a little chuckle at that. We had to wait till the Bethel family had finished their lunch before we could pick up a tour. So we had nearly and hour to kill but they have quite a bit to look at. They had a video on how they acquired the land, which was a very interesting story; we’ll share that with you when we get home.
We had a fantastic sister for our tour guide, she was Greek but didn’t look it, spoke with an American accent and was married to a Brazilian. Her name was Tina and she met her husband in Bethel and they’ve only been married two years. She reminded me of Rebecca Macmillan, so I loved her immediately.
My favourite part was learning about Gilead School but there were so many interesting aspects, I really loved it all. It went for about two hours and we fired questions, non-stop. It was so interesting.
Anyway it was one of the best days we’ve had so far! Massive effort but well worth it.
Well we only have a few more days left in New York now, were just going to catch up on all the last minute things we want to do. Tomorrow night were going to see ‘Chicago’.
Its so funny Adam wasn’t that fussed about going to see a Broadway show because we have seen a few and there isn’t too many new ones that are taking our fancy but its one things the girls absolutely, definitely want to do. Like Adam said to me, ‘Teenage kids that want to go to the theatre? That’s not such a bad thing’
Love all the white there. I get lost somewhere down on the third bottom row of the lapel cards. My memory only seems to go back so far and I think they've missed out some of the pretty ones from my teens and early twenties. Cherrie
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting. We've never been to Patterson, but plan to visit next summer, so I've been doing much research on Bethel, NYC, the trains, etc. :-)
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