On Thursday, I had another appointment with my doctor - here, you have to get a doctor's appointment to get the results of your tests - seems like a waste of time to me (and of course you have to pay for the appointment), but I did get all good news. I have to go and get a breast ultrasound tomorrow and then the results from that and the mammogram I had will be sent to my doctor - so that will mean that there will be another trip to the doctor to get the results of those two tests. I also made an appointment for the 23rd of October to have him check out the bump on my head. He wants to cut one open and take out what's inside and have it checked out (he's pretty sure it's just fatty tissue like Dr. Nixon thought) - I'm not looking forward to it, but the one on top of my head is getting quite big now, so it's probably a good idea to have it taken out.
On Friday, I met with my friend, Chantelle, after school for an iced chocolate and a chat. Chantelle is the young teacher who I taught with last year in Kindergarten and who stayed in our house while we were gone. We had a lovely talk - she is being transferred next year to a place nine hours away from HB. It will be good for her to get her 'country teaching' done (every new teacher is supposed to do some teaching in a country town for three years during their career). We will certainly miss our house-minder. :-)
On Saturday, after General Conference (they download the videos of General Conference here which was actually last weekend, and we watch them the following weekend), we met up with Robyn and Geoff at a local restaurant called 'Hogsbreath Cafe' to celebrate Dad's and Geoff's birthdays and our anniversary. Dad and I wanted to see if they had a good prime rib like 'The Keg' - there really isn't much of a selection of nice restaurants here in HB. When we went in, the music was really loud - we asked our server if she could lower the volume and we were told that she couldn't as it was part of the contract of being a franchise. None of us like to have loud music playing when we are trying to talk with each other and I did ask Robyn and Geoff if they wanted to leave and find another place to eat, but they decided that they would stay. Dad had a lobster/prime rib dinner and mine was a ribs/prime rib dinner. Although the food tasted good, I thought mine tasted more like a steak than a prime rib - and I love prime ribs, but steaks are only so-so. Dad thought his meal was delicious. I don't think that we will go back there, though - the music was too loud and the food is quite expensive. We decided that we will go out as a foursome for a really nice dinner three times a year: in March to celebrate Robyn's and my birthdays, in June to celebrate their annniversary and then in October like we did this year. We are going to have to do some research to find a really nice quiet restaurant in HB - Robyn and Geoff only go out as much as we do and usually they go to the 'Boat Club' or something like that (similar to a cafeteria style restaurant) and that's similar to what Dad and I have gone to in the past.
Dad got his contract in the mail from 'Queensland Aerospace College' (his new employers) this past week - it was a large package, but Dad said it seemed like a pretty standard contract. It took him a couple of days to get it all read and then signed and sent it back to them on Friday. His official starting date of his contract will be November 1st. He's really looking forward to going on the course to Melbourne at the end of November. I was going to go with him, but when he asked his boss if I could go, he said that they have no issue with wives going with the instructors at any time (which the wife of the instructor of this course will do), but that since this instructor will be bringing his wife and they and Dad will be staying at the company condo, the boss thought that it might be too crowded for me to stay the whole three weeks. He said that he thought that it would be fine for me to stay there for a few days, but not longer than that. I decided that I didn't want to spend the money for the flights for just a few days, so I will be on my own for those three weeks. Thank goodness for technology - we can Skype/phone during the time Dad is in Melbourne.
We went to both sessions of General Conference on Sunday - the way they do it here is that they play the first session from 9am - 11am, take a half hour break to eat lunch and then watch the second two hour session. I loved the talks which were given (on Saturday as well). I love our Prophet - he was telling a story about how the jumbotron at a youth conference wasn't working and it needed to work for the presentation which was going to be given that day. After many tries to get it working, someone decided to ask the youth to pray that those who were trying to fix it would be able to figure out what was wrong and fix it. He said that 3,000 youth got down on their knees and prayed sincerely for assistance. It was such a spiritual experience, President Monson said. The problem was solved and the person fixing it said that they were so lucky to find the problem. President Monson made a sound like 'hmph' - it was such a funny sound and look as if to say 'yeah, right - luck - NOT'. :-) I love being spiritually fed at Conference.
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