Saturday, November 21, 2009

Today was another busy day.  We started off by going to a baptism of a woman named Terrie Ann White.  When I read the program with her name on it, I tapped her on the shoulder and asked her if she went by Terrie or Terrie Ann.  She said she goes by both, but that sometimes she adds her middle name Ann because she gets 'teased' because Terry White is the name of a chemist (drug store) chain here.  I told her that I would remember her name since it was the same as our daughter, Terri-Ann, even if it was spelled differently.

The spirit at the baptismal service was so strong and I was so happy that we had come.  It took me back to how I had felt when I was baptized back in 1974.  I remembered that I had written in a journal that I had felt lighter when I came out of the water and that I had felt that a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.  I suggested to Terrie Ann that she go home and write down how she was feeling this day.  She told us later that she felt so special, like a princess, with how the focus was on her on her special day. 

After the baptism, we were invited to go over to Amanda Brown's home for a luncheon in honour of Terrie Ann's baptism.  It was really nice to be invited and it gave us a chance to talk with some more members on a more personal level since there were just a few of us there (about fourteen).  It's nice when we can be a part of smaller gatherings as we get a chance to really talk with people and get to know them better.  The food was really yummy, too - Amanda had cooked steak, chicken legs, and sausages on the barbecue (the barbie :-) and salads and bread.  I felt a little bad for Terrie Ann because she had to go even before lunch was served because people were coming to her place from quite a ways away and even though she asked them not to come, they still showed up.  I told her that we would enjoy her luncheon in her absence. :-)

While we were at the luncheon, I got a phone call from Julianne asking us if we would like to go out for supper with her and her husband, Clive.  I told her we would love to do that - I always like to go out for a good meal and with good company.  I thought this would be a good way to get to know Julianne a bit better and for us to meet her husband.  We went to the Hervey Bay RSL club - they always have great roast dinners there and tonight was no exception.  They had roast beef with gravy, roast potatoes, carrots, cauliflower with cream sauce and peas.  It also came with a very warm yummy roll with butter.  I gave my cauliflower to Mike and he gave me his peas.  It was really delicious!  We enjoyed talking with Julianne and Clive and ended up talking way past finishing our dinner.  We checked out the desserts, but Julianne and I decided that the cost of what you got for the portion size that you got was not worth it.  When we told Clive this, he invited us back to their house for dessert (ice cream with chocolate sauce and nuts or peaches).  It was a really lovely night out and we told them that we would like to do more of these get togethers once we come back from Canada.

One interesting thing that Clive told us tonight is that he is an identical twin, but that he and his brother did not share the same birthday.  That would be easy enough to understand because twins could be born minutes apart:  if the first one was born close to midnight, the second could be born just after midnight.  What was amazing about his story, though, was that he and his twin brother were born eight HOURS apart.  This was back in 1951 and neither his mom nor the doctor knew that she was having twins until after the first boy was born.  I have never heard of twins being born hours apart - I thought that was amazing!