Monday, November 30, 2009

Today we had the use of Julianne's car again as we wanted to spend a lot of the day driving around Hervey Bay to take pictures of our lovely little town.  Would you believe it!  It was raining - and I don't mean just a little bit - it poured down - and for most of the morning.  So, we decided that it wasn't worth going out and taking pictures of grey skies and grey ocean water (I mean, we HAVE been telling you that we've had blue skies all along - which we have - so we couldn't very well put up pics of grey skies, now could we?). :-)

We spent the morning playing card games and doing laundry.  Christine, our landlady came over to tell us that her husband was watching a storm just south of us and told us that we should be careful if we were planning on going out in our car (there was a high wind warning).  We ended up talking with her for quite a while.  The storm/high winds never did reach us here in Hervey Bay, but apparently it did hit in a small town not far from here - it actually uprooted a greenhouse of a friend of Christine's.

We called Terri-Ann this morning to ask her if she could get on Skype so that we could talk with her and the boys.  She wasn't sure if she could get on as James had connected us before and he wasn't home at the time.  She was able to figure it out and we were soon talking to her and 'our boys'.  It is so much fun talking with Colin and Caleb while watching their little faces.  Colin loves to talk and Caleb likes to copy what Colin says and does - it's adorable.  We could see Terri-Ann enjoying the boys talking with us.  Colin blew us lots of kisses and then ran out of them, so I told him to make sure he has more for us when we get back to Canada. :-)  Unfortunately, because of the bad weather, the internet cut out before we actually had a chance to talk with Terri-Ann.  We phoned her to tell her what had happened - we didn't stay on long as it costs $2. a minute to call from our cell phone to Canada and she was also trying to put the boys to bed.

Terri-Ann told us that Mike's mom had called her to ask if we were going to be stopping in Vancouver on the way back to Toronto.  So, after he was finished talking with Terri-Ann, he called his mom to fill her in on our plans.  They were only able to talk for a few minutes due to the cost of calling on his cell.  He reminded his mom of the web address of our blog so that she could read what we were doing on a daily basis here in Hervey Bay.

After lunch, we finally decided that we would go for a drive as we were experiencing 'cabin fever'.  We ended up taking our dvds back to the library, going to the post office to get a stamp, looking for a water resistant hat for Mike to wear when he goes swimming in the ocean (couldn't find one), going for an ice-cream (chocolate dipped) at Hungry Jack's, and grocery shopping (we only needed milk today as we have enough at the granny flat to do us until we leave on Thursday - however, we also bought a 'mud cake' - chocolate cake - and some passionfruit pop). :-)

Julianne dropped us off at home and we ran into Rob Woodcott who is a member of the church.  We chatted a little to him about a piece of property that is for sale on his street (he and Rosalea live in a town called Booral which is about 15 minutes from Hervey Bay - out in the country).  An old woman is selling her two blocks of land - one with a house on it and the other with nothing on it -  and we were wondering if she would sell just the house on the one block of land.  After talking with him about wanting to wait until we buy, he suggested that we invest in gold and silver as a way to make up the difference between what we have to put down on the house and the cost of the house, so that we don't have to take out a mortgage.  Neither Mike nor I are interested in purchasing gold and silver - we are not the risk taking kind when it comes to our money.

After visiting with Rob, we decided that we wanted to go through our papers that we had collected over the time we have been here - things like tourist information and store flyers and maps.  After deciding which ones we are going to keep, we put them in a bag and put them in the storage bin that we have purchased which we are leaving here while we are in Canada.  We added two sheet sets to the bin which we have purchased for beds for when we come back to Hervey Bay and have to find a place to rent (in case this granny flat is already rented out).  We will also put cans of food in there that we don't use before we go - that way we will have something to eat when we get back.

After dinner, we watched one of our favourite shows 'Big Bang Theory' and, as usual, we laughed our heads off.  That show is so funny - well, at least to us it is - and it's one of the few that we don't like to miss watching.  The rest of the evening we spent completing our cruise blog (YAY, it's finally done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).  We are going to do one more proofread of it before we send out the link to everyone.  It has taken a LOT of time to finish it, but I think it has been worth the time and effort.