Sunday, 22 December, 2013

Well, this week was rather uneventful.  How uneventful, you ask?  Well, let's see..............Dad had two chiropractor appointments, the car had a maintenance appointment, Dad and I both got our hair cut, Dad mowed the lawn again, we spent time cleaning out the office (a ways to go yet), we went grocery shopping............I'm sure you get the idea.

I did get to go out on Tuesday for lunch with my teacher friend, Bronwyn.  I did two teaching contracts for her before she retired from teaching.  We like to get together every now and again to catch up - she and her husband went on a trip to Spain and Portugal earlier this year, so she brought pics of that trip to share with me.  They started their trip off in Madrid and it reminded me of our trip there, Krystal.  I loved visiting Madrid - we had such a great time there going to the El Prado Art Gallery and seeing 'The Phantom of the Opera' in Spanish (good thing ONE of us understood spanish, eh, Krystal :-)  I also shared with Bronwyn about going to a restaurant there and having tapas (a very spanish thing to do) and then you saying, Krystal, that you weren't fussed on them and could we eat at McDonald's. :-)  Good memories! :-)

We also went on a couple of beach walks and a walk in the neighbourhood - the weather has been amazing this week (although, I do have to say, that it's pretty amazing most of the year here) - it's been between 27C and 31C this week.  We love walking along the beach - we most often walk just at the edge of the water - this week the water was quite warm.  We saw a few blue blubber jellyfish washed up on the beach or close to the shore - we thought they were all dead, but we walked around them just to be sure.  They can give you quite a nasty sting if they are alive.  Last year, when Nana and Warren were here, we saw hundreds of them floating in the ocean close to the shore - people kept out of the water during that time, for sure.

I  also went swimming at the aquatic centre three times this week - I am now up to swimming a kilometre (40-25 metre lengths).  I sure noticed a difference in how much harder it was after missing swimming while I was in Canada.  I even find a difference if I don't go every other day - like this week, I went Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, so Saturday was a bit of a struggle.  But, I find that I can make it if I count the lengths in sets of four.  I am going to work my way up to swimming two kilometres now.

My new haircut

Dad's new haircut