McVey Kiwi News: November 2012

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Friday, 2 November 2012

All-Black Game 8 September

One of the highlights of the past 3 months was attending the "All-Black" vs. Argentina rugby game. It was a typical Wellington night with rain and wind, but the game was fun to watch. We had 16 senior missionaries including Pres. & Sister Kezerian our mission president.

The evening started with a tradition German dinner put on by Ann and me at our flat.

Home made rouladen, red cabbage, vegetables, spatzle...very yummy if I don't mind saying so myself!

Here's our group - Hirshi's, Overton's, Farnes, Becksteads, Freeman's, McVey's and Kezerians

This is the stadium - Westpac. We overlook it from Archives New Zealand every day

The Argentinian fans

Some really get into the game

"All-Black" entry

The traditional "HAKA" was performed but they had their backs to us....darn!

Game Time...I'll just show the photo's with no comments!

Halftime entertainment was a Ukulele Band

Just after half-time the lights in the stadium went off for about 10-minutes

Young Men & Young Women Tin Foil Dinners

Well, the word got out that I was some Boy Scouter so the young men asked me to do a monthly activity with them. Then before I knew it, the young women wanted to join. What do you do with 15 youth ages 12 to 18...you cook tin foil (silver turtles) dinner at a fire on the beach. So that's what we did. They had a great time. When I told them we were having Silver Turtles, they actually thought we were cooking real turtles!

Here we are preparing the dinners

Everyone really took ownership here

Chelsea even got in on the action

Vanessa with complete Silver Turtle

Jan the master...Dad from Switzerland, Mum a Kiwi

Here's what 25+ foil dinners look like on a bed of coals

We had to have something to do while the dinners cooked so we had fire instruction and then a string burning contest. Everyone really had a lot of fun! They got 2+ matches.

If you think the above fire is going to work, you're crazy and not a scouter!

I think these guys knew what they were doing!

"Are the dinners ready?" - typical boys!

This looks pretty promising!

This might be the winner!

Get down there and blow!

This is what we're talking about

And the winners are!

Heck no, take a look at this dinner! Fantastic! Brilliant! Wonderful!

What do you think? Did she like it?

The smiles tell the true store!

Then after the dinner the "Scoutmasters Minute" - A story using two real US dollar bills and the worth of each one of them...that's the young men & women, not the dollars!

A scoutmasters work is never done

Below is what was going on around us!