Dad finished up his course on Tuesday and all four guys passed the final test with flying colours. It was really nice for Dad to have such a small class for a change. We headed back to HB on Wednesday morning and it was so good to get home.
I had three medical tests and two doctor's visits to get in in three days. On Wednesday, I had a pelvic ultrasound, a breast ultrasound and a mammogram (the joys of being a female :-) On Thursday, I had a pap smear and on Friday, I had a breast exam. Fortunately, I only have to do all these once a year. My doctor was able to give me the results of the ultrasounds and the mammogram on Friday and everything is A-OK.
On Thursday night, we had Robyn and Geoff over for dinner. We ended up buying a roast chicken and roasting veggies along with it - such an easy meal. It was so good to see our friends again and to catch up with them after being away. They are such good friends and we always enjoy their company. That night, they invited us over for dinner on Friday night - they made us chicken kebabs with rice - yum. We are not going to see them for quite a while now since we will arrive back in HB after they have left to go down to Brisbane for Geoff's operation.
We flew out to Perth yesterday - the flight was a little turbulent from Brisbane to Perth - so much so that the flight attendants had to stop the meal service a few times. Once we got to the condo and dropped off our suitcases, we did some grocery shopping and picked up some take-away for dinner (chiko roll for me - yummy - and fish and chips for Dad).
It was nice flying in on Saturday so that we could have a rest day today before Dad has to start teaching tomorrow. We went to church today - the closest ward is about ten minutes from the condo. We've been to this ward a few times - it's so nice that we can go anywhere in the world and it's the same wherever we go. :-) It was so nice being able to stay for all three meetings, too - last time we were here, Harry was here also, and we only stayed for Sacrament meeting as we didn't think that we should monopolize the car for that long on a weekend.
The Sunday School teacher is a student teacher (high school art) and she gave a great lesson using different strategies to get the members involved in the lesson. At the beginning of the lesson, she used a 'think/pair/share' strategy (she gave us a question to think about, then asked us to talk about it with another person and then asked us to share our thoughts with the class) - I turned to Dad and said 'you can tell she's a teacher, she's using 'think/pair/share'. After the class, while we were waiting for Relief Society to start, she was sitting beside me and I mentioned to her about the 'think/pair/share' comment I made to Dad and she laughed and said that she had even written the words 'think/pair/share' in her lesson notes. :-) We were still talking when one of the sisters came up to find out my name and asked us if we knew each other. I love that it's so easy to strike up a conversation with any member of the church no matter where we go. :-)
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