We've had a busy and lazy week. :-) School was pretty much the same as it's been since we got back from holidays. The kids seem to have settled down a bit - except for Fridays - they go swimming on Fridays, so after the lessons, they have a difficult time settling down. We have a PD Day (they call it a 'pupil free day' here) tomorrow which will be nice. Not so much fun to have to do some kind of workshop in the morning, but we do get from 1pm onwards to do interviews (I have three booked already and hope two more will show up) and then we get to work on whatever we want. That means I can do preparing for the coming week which has meant that I didn't have to do any school work yesterday which was a real treat.
On Tuesday, while Dad was at his Priesthood Executive Committe, I was able to go and visit teach with my friend, Diana (the Bishop's wife). I have always loved doing visiting teaching - I love being able to get to know the sisters on a more personal level - being able to have a good yak as well. :-) Diana is really good at yakking (like me) so we had a lovely time. I usually stay between 45 minutes and an hour when I go visiting teaching, but Diana and I were having such a great time together that I called Dad and asked him to get a ride from the Bishop to their place so that Diana and I could have more time together - we ended up visiting for almost 1 1/2 hours. :-)
Yesterday, Dad and I had the loveliest of days. We spent the whole day relaxing and enjoying the outdoors. We started off watching a movie (Eat, Pray, Love) - a good one, but not as good as the book - I have got to stop watching a movie made from a book if I have read the book - I have never seen a movie which is as good as the book. We had a great chat with Krystal over Skype (sad that her boys were sleeping, but Krystal has her voice/guitar lessons on Friday night, so we have to wait until she gets back from them to Skype). Dad and I then took our books outside and lay down on our chaise lounges in the beautiful warm sun. We both read for a while and then had a nap - I love these kind of days. We then drove down to the beach and went for a short walk (half an hour) and ended our lazy day by watching tv.
We had an enormous storm last night - out where we were it was just really powerful (and loud) rain, but in other parts of Hervey Bay, it was much worse. When we got to church, we heard that one of our families had it really bad last night - a mini cyclone went through the area of town in which they live. A roof off a school building out their back yard had come off and parts of it landed in their trees and in the yard; many of their trees had fallen, so much so that they were told to stay inside their house until help had arrived to clear things away. Just after that, Dad got a call from SES putting him into activation. Lo and behold, when he got to the SES shed, he was told he was going to be working at our friends' house. :-) There were 29 SES members called out today and 15 of them were working on our friends' property. It was really warm today and the SES uniforms are long sleeved - Dad sweat so much today - they worked for 8 hours on that property and there's still tons of work to be done. What a blessing for people here to be able to call on the SES for assistance - and it's all free. This was Dad's first call-out to assist in an emergency - although he is exhausted from the hard work, he feels good that he was able to help someone in need.
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