I am supposed to be on holidays and yet we still find ourselves busy some days. Tuesday was cleaning day (I cleaned while Dad went to an employment appointment) and then it was grocery shopping for food for dinner (the missionaries and Ashley were coming over) - we did manage to get a walk in which was nice. Wednesday was Meals on Wheels, laundry, stops at the library, Blockbuster's, Target (to buy a table runner and placemats) and IGA for more food. Phew. Thank goodness we got to relax last night (more movies) and all day today, it's been movies and relaxing.
On Tuesday, I did tell Dad that I needed to get out because we had been inside for so long since the weather had been so crummy. It wasn't that nice a looking day on Tuesday, but we decided to go for a walk anyway - after all, if it did rain, we would just get wet - and we weren't that far from home. We decided to walk around the neighbourhood and check out all the houses. One of the things I love about this area is that the houses are all different. Rather than one company buying all the land in this area, it appears that people purchased the land and then various builders built the houses. It was really nice to get outside and enjoy the fresh air and get some exercise.
I have put a couple of photos at the end of this blog - they are of our new dining room table. One is showing off the table and the other one shows our new table runner and place mats. We went into the store planning on buying one set of placemats we had seen before (they were having a 25% off sale at Target), but we ended up finding ones we liked better. The runner is made from bamboo and the placemats are sort of native looking. We have a tablecloth on the table right now, but it doesn't show off the table - with the runner and the placemats, we can see the beautiful table and it will also be protected.
Our friends, Robyn and Geoff, came over yesterday to visit us - Geoff is one of our home teachers and his companion could not come with him, so Robyn joined him to visit with us. Although the sky was grey, it wasn't raining, so Dad and I were eating lunch outside when they came. We visited with them outside - it was so nice to be outside in the fresh air - although it was cloudy, it was quite warm - about 27C yesterday. It was nice to visit with them - they stayed for about an hour and a half - we are becoming good friends with them. We also invited them to come over for dinner on Saturday night (Geoff even asked me if 'dinner' meant the evening meal - a lot of people call lunch 'dinner' and dinner 'tea' over here :-)
We have been having a really lazy day today - I didn't even get up until 9am this morning. I laid in bed and finished my book (Char recommended this book called 'Trust No One' and wouldn't you know it, I figured out the killer - I hate when I do that. :-) Dad and I then watched two more movies: 'Cold Mountain' (we gave it a 7.75 - I gave it an 8.5, but Dad said it was a 7.0 cuz he thought it was a bit long and a bit slow) and we also watched 'Bandslam' - 6.75 (I gave it a 6.5, but Dad said it was a 7.0 - a cute movie, but more for teenagers). We have five more movies to watch, but we will have to wait until tomorrow to watch anymore as Dad is off to SES shortly.
Only three more days off and then I'm back to work (for three weeks, anyway) so there is more relaxing to be done in the next few days. :-) Tomorrow, we will be at the FHC until 3pm and then on Saturday, we will head over to the church garage sale in the morning (for the youth to raise money for Youth Conference) and then we are going for a drive - not sure where to yet - I just mentioned to Dad that it would be a nice way to finish up the holidays and he agreed, so we shall have to do a little research into what is close to here that we haven't seen yet - we might head south since we've been north to Bundaberg. We'll keep you posted.
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