Well, after a good night's sleep, I think that my heart has finally stopped beating so fast! Last night, I was putting things away in the kitchen just before heading off to bed, when I saw something out of my peripheral vision. Usually, that means a spider, but as I looked in the direction of the movement, I saw a very small brown gecko. I yelled out to Dad to come quickly as my heart starting beating furiously. They are not scary creatures, but they move very quickly and I didn't want to take my eyes off it. Dad got a yogurt container and piece of cardboard and walked towards the gecko. Of course, it moved as soon as Dad got close to it - then, it jumped right off the kitchen counter onto the floor! Dad just stood there - he couldn't believe it would jump and then that it was still okay. It ran under the futon and by this time we were both laughing trying to figure out how two big adults were going to catch this very tiny gecko. :-) We finally cornered him under the futon with me coming one way and Dad coming the other way. Once Dad had trapped the gecko under the yogurt container and slid the cardboard under the container, we walked outside and let the little guy go. What an experience! The missionaries told us that they have geckos in their apartment all the time and they just let them be - they told us that the geckos eat little bugs. We have a little machine in our house which kills bugs, so we don't need any little geckos in here scurrying around - they can just stay outside, thank you very much. :-)
The rest of the past couple of days have been quite boring compared to last night's exercise. :-) We have just been relaxing and watching movies and spending time doing family history. Dad was at the church FHC (Family History Centre) yesterday and it was busy - Dad still had some time, though, to work on the Noble line in his family history. He found that some information he had, had not been inputted in the church system and so he spent some time doing that along with doing some more research. Dad is planning on going into the FHC in Toronto when we are there to do some more work on that line. I spent the day at the library trying to find some more information on my family history - I had spent some time on Sunday afternoon writing down some missing parts in my history. I wasn't able to find out much more about my family, but I was able to find out where some ancestors were buried - I would like to go and get photos of their headstones. Dad found out yesterday that if you are going to a cemetery to get information off headstones that you should talk with the person who is in charge of the cemetery and see if they will let you look at the purchase order for the gravesite as that may have more information (and perhaps more accurage info) on it than the headstone does. I also wrote down two email addresses I found - one of a woman who has information about headstones in a place called Narrandera where my great great grandfather is buried and I am hoping that his date of birth is on his headstone since I can't seem to find out any info on that. The other email is for a gentleman who is working on one of my lines which goes back to England - the gentleman is actually here in Australia - so I am going to email him and see what information he has. It's still so exciting when I find out anything about my ancestors!
We have watched more movies since I last wrote to you - some good and some not so good or rather, not as good as we were hoping after all the researching I had done. I can't remember which ones I have told you about, so here's a synopsis of what we have watched and the mark out of ten which we have given them. "Akeelah and the Bee" - 8.0, "Finding Neverland" - 6.5 (and only that high cuz Dad gave it a 7.0 while I only gave it a 6.0), "The Invention of Lying" - 6.0, "Notes on a Scandal - 7.0 (but a very odd movie), and "Whale Rider" - 7.0. We rented ten movies yesterday to watch this week (special price on Monday is .99c a movie for weekly rentals) and hope that they will be good ones. We won't be watching movies again after this week as I will be back at school and we don't have time to watch movies when I am working.
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