Georgia Convention 2018

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Georgia Convention 2018
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- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 1.7.2018 klo 15.00
- ☀️ 91 °F
- Korkeus: 869 ft
- Yhdysvallat Vermont Bennington Bennington Municipal Forest 42.86881, -73.1707342°52’8” N 73°10’15” W
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Planning To See...
1. heinäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ☀️ 91 °F
Ideas in the city to see...
Yes, Jennifer I can access the site, and enlarge the pics. Debbie C
3.7.2018Vastaa
Matkaaja Great , Deb. Thanks for testing. 😙
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Jeannette N Tim Putnam Wow!
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Georgia Convention 2018
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- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 2.7.2018 klo 12.00
- ⛅ 88 °F
- Korkeus: 735 ft
- Yhdysvallat Vermont Bennington Downtown Bennington Historic District 42.87838, -73.197142°52’42” N 73°11’50” W
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Getting Blog Ready for Convention Trip
2. heinäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 88 °F
Excitement is building ...
Nice..Helen Wilhovsky
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Georgia Convention 2018
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- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 15.7.2018 klo 11.16
- ⛅ 72 °F
- Korkeus: 43 ft
- Yhdysvallat New York Nassau County Meadowmere Park John F. Kennedy International Airport 40.64218, -73.7915340°38’32” N 73°47’30” W
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At the Airport & through security
15. heinäkuuta 2018, Yhdysvallat ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F
Waiting to board. Seeing groups of Friends too! The hugs have already started and we only made it one state over 😂
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Matkaaja Surprise! We had no idea. Ran into our former KH Maintenance trainer couple from NH, Tom & Nancy C. On same flights. Maybe like 20 others Friends too? A guess, so far... Had to all put our badges on so we could know who the Friends are. Came in handy, as we had a gate change and could tell each other!
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how exciting!!!!!!!! you look great!! thanks for sharing the adventure.
16.7.2018Vastaa
Matkaaja Thanks... Whoever u might be 😀
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Georgia Convention 2018
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- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 16.7.2018 klo 6.30
- ☀️ 73 °F
- Korkeus: 177 ft
- Turkki İstanbul Şenlikköy Istanbul Atatürk Airport 40.98676, 28.8105240°59’12” N 28°48’38” E
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Istanbul Ataturk airport connection
16. heinäkuuta 2018, Turkki ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
Only there briefly, so didn't see much. Longer scheduled connections on the other end of the trip.
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Matkaaja Love being above the clouds, adventure! Did you make requests for warp speed😉
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Matkaaja It was a good plane but not built like the Delta Flyer, so we didn't ask. 😉😉
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Georgia Convention 2018
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- 16.7.2018 klo 14.37
- ⛅ 82 °F
- Korkeus: 1 568 ft
- Georgia Lilo Tbilisi International Airport 41.67082, 44.9586141°40’15” N 44°57’31” E
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Arrived in Tbilisi
16. heinäkuuta 2018, Georgia ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
So, we finally arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia around 10:30 am local time (2:30 am EDT). Our flight from JFK was delayed over 90 minutes before take off due to at least one passenger that wasn't supposed to be on flight being removed. Then they had to verify every bag had an owner on the flight and get their checked bags out of the storage hold. 😐
There were a lot of other friends on the same plane and we were worried we were going to miss our connecting flight in Istanbul. We were all pleasantly surprised when we found out not only was it still there when we arrived, but it was extremely close to where we entered the terminal. We think that most of the flight from Istanbul to Tbilisi was Witnesses.
Finally we arrived and were greated by a LOT of friends.Lue lisää
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Bluebutterfly I love sun sets and sun rises when I am flying.
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Bluebutterfly On the ground safe and sound 😥😄🤗
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Bluebutterfly I see you had a window seat...I love the window seat. Get to have a bird's eye view. 😄
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Georgia Convention 2018
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- Jaa
- 16.7.2018 klo 15.27
- ☀️ 82 °F
- Korkeus: 1 467 ft
- Georgia K'alak'i T'bilisi Saburtalo Vere 41.72023, 44.7802541°43’13” N 44°46’49” E
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First Sites of Georgia
16. heinäkuuta 2018, Georgia ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Trip to hotel was interesting. Lots to look at. A volunteer brother took us 2 couples to our nearby hotels in his van. He liked the horn & was using his tablet (for map directions). And he used both of these AT THE SAME time as his phone, to try to get us where we needed to be. Yikes, but he didn't text while driving anyway, oh boy oh boy!Lue lisää
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Matkaaja This is a sports arena. We can just barely see our hotel above the roof and much farther beyond.
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Bluebutterfly I guess he is good at multi-tasking
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Bluebutterfly So narrow...do they drive on those streets?
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Matkaaja Yes, and we drove in and out of there to deliver a couple of Friends to their hotel.
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Georgia Convention 2018
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- Lisää toivelistallePoista toivelistalta
- Jaa
- 17.7.2018 klo 11.32
- ⛅ 73 °F
- Korkeus: 2 011 ft
- Georgia Shida Kartli Otarsheni 41.99889, 44.0937241°59’56” N 44°5’37” E
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Gori Assembly Hall
17. heinäkuuta 2018, Georgia ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F
Visited Assembly Hall. It is an outdoor one and very nice! The small KH is also on the same grounds. There is a separate outdoor building housing the restrooms and baby nursing area. Met a bunch of local Friends and conversed as best we could. A perfect "surprise rest stop" on the way to our scheduled outing! 😂😙Lue lisää
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Bluebutterfly Love to see all the smiling faces .
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Bluebutterfly And more smiling faces...I waved....not sure if you saw me 😋😆
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Matkaaja Nope,missed it... So many people. But we love u still, not to worry 😉
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Georgia Convention 2018
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- 17.7.2018 klo 13.07
- ⛅ 75 °F
- Korkeus: 2 005 ft
- Georgia K’vakhvreli 41.96739, 44.2072641°58’3” N 44°12’26” E
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Uplistsikhe
17. heinäkuuta 2018, Georgia ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F
Our tour today was Uplistsikhe ( sounds like: Oop'-lisch-i-kah), an ancient fortress town all made in the native rocks. It was a semi-rigorous climb in the heat & intense midday sun, but we helped each other navigate safely-- and were rewarded with some great views from up high. For more info on this mixed Christian/pagan creation, check this out: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UplistsikheLue lisää
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Bluebutterfly WOW, that looks amazing!
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Matkaaja Was an old "Christian" church from like the 13th century, or so. Built on a pagan worship & living area. Interesting site, but we chose not to go up.
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Bluebutterfly Lots of stairs. At least you did not have to try to scale that hughe rock.
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Georgia Convention 2018
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- Jaa
- 17.7.2018 klo 13.30
- ☀️ 77 °F
- Korkeus: 2 057 ft
- Georgia Kvemo-Rekha Charebula 42.03764, 44.1017142°2’16” N 44°6’6” E
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Restaurant "Nacharmaghevi"
17. heinäkuuta 2018, Georgia ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
Ate a huge lunch at "რესტორანი ნაჭარმაგევი" ( Restaurant Nacharmaghevi). They gave us many small courses, eating with our little tour group + around 125 other Friends. We all met up at this Georgian restaurant's banquet hall. Got our first tastes of many authentic foods. Most were totally excellent!! Also a first serving of the many wines they are known for, poured from large glass pitchers, go figure. Then a surprise concert by a family group who were professional singers, prior to learning the Truth. (Gave us time to process some of our big meal, before we needed to return to the big bus taking us on the 1 1/2 hr ride back to the city).

*A musical treat to hear: https://photos.app.goo.gl/JdaqnTKH1CB1sAAW7Lue lisää
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Matkaaja The local mineral water from the Springs
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Matkaaja Borjomi is a location nearby.
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Georgia Convention 2018
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- 18.7.2018 klo 15.37
- ☀️ 91 °F
- Korkeus: 1 175 ft
- Georgia Kvemo Kartli Rust’avi 41.55658, 44.9761641°33’24” N 44°58’34” E
Field Service day
18. heinäkuuta 2018, Georgia ⋅ ☀️ 91 °F
Traveled an hour south of Tbilisi to Rustavi --to go in field service with Friends from the Megobroda congregation. We each were partnered with a sister and walked the dusty streets to our assigned apartment buildings. Geoff's partner was Te'a and Jenn's partner was Maia. Before and after svc, loving hospitality was shown thru food, drink, and singing & dancing. A few genuine tears followed as we were departing. Some sisters were very moved that we came out to be with them.Lue lisää
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Bluebutterfly Your companions are lovely. 😊 it must have been so cool to go in service 😎 and really hard to leave 😭😢
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