From the Other Side of the World...

Mary attended World Youth Day with the Pope, a pilgrimage to Sidney Australia. Should be an interview in today's' Lufkin paper with various travelers, I haven't seen the paper yet because sometimes the dogs get it.

Here' Mary with the Sidney Opera house in the background.



400,000 attend the Mass and marched in the streets. Sometimes it seems that more news time is devoted to the march of the few protesters that were there than all the good things these young people were doing.






Are we starting to dress local,or just looking more tourist?










Some of the Lufkin kids and friends from around the world they made. They were all encouraged (all 400,000 of them) to bring something from their country to trade to a person from another country. Mary had just replaced the plates on her truck so she traded an old Texas truck plate for the Australian flag she holds.