Our weekend was full of relaxing - well, my weekend was. :-) Dad spent Saturday with his SES friends. They were doing parking control in a small town about half an hour from Hervey Bay. It was a day of activities to raise money for the local athletic programs (eg: recreation centre) - there were markets, food tents/stalls, horse races, games, kids' play areas, auctions, etc. Dad spent about 7 hours there and only came back at 3pm because the local SES leader called them back because there were callouts going on here in Hervey Bay (big storm from the previous night so there were fallen trees all over the place) and she wanted a back-up team in case they were needed (fortunately, they weren't needed).
I was going to spend part of the day cleaning, but when I looked outside and saw a blue sky and the sun shining, I had to make a choice. Let's see: inside and cleaning or outside reading - it was a hard choice (yeah, right! :-) NO, I DID NOT CHOOSE TO CLEAN. :-) It was a glorious day and I enjoyed being out there in the sun and fresh air - it really is a beautiful place to live here.
Saturday night was spent relaxing in front of the tv. We have found a show over here called 'Air Crash Investigations' which we enjoy watching (Dad especially) and I love watching a show called 'The Bill' (a British show) and so that took up our evening. Dad also found time to work on his talk for next week's missionary fireside - he is doing it on the authority and organization of the church.
Sunday - another relaxing day - was spent at church (we had a practice for the Primary presentation which is next week). When we got home, we had lunch outside and we spent the rest of the day outside relaxing. Dad worked on his talk for a while and I read some magazines. I have attached some photos of the beautiful day that it was.
Today, Dad spent the day at the Family History Centre - pretty routine, he says. For me, it was a Pupil Free Day (which means no kids - yay :-) We spent most of the day doing team planning - not that interesting for me since I am not part of the team on a full-time basis, but very good for the team as a number of questions were answered and some assessment tests created. There are a lot of expectations of the teachers here and more seems to be being heaped upon them. I know that I don't want to teach full-time here. I am going to go into the Anglican College next week to see if they need any supply teachers. I am also going to talk with the VP at Kawungan to see if there are any other contract positions coming up in the next three weeks and/or at the beginning of the new school year at the end of January 2011.
Dad and I have decided to plan ahead of time what exercise we will do each night and so we went for a good brisk walk today. Tomorrow, we will do our strength exercises and also hopefully go for a bike ride. We have both hit plateaus in our weight loss and I think that it has to do with not being consistent with our exercising. I thought that since writing down our menus works for our eating plan, that if we wrote down our exercise plan, we might be more likely to do it. Wish us luck! :-)
This is the view from my chair which was on the grass - I was enjoying the warm sun.
Dad sitting on the patio working on his talk for next week.
The view out the side of our backyard.
The incredibly beautiful blue sky!
The sun shining over the fence of our backyard.
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