On Thursday, Robyn and I treated ourselves: first, we had a manicure/pedicure which was wonderful. The place we went to had these wonderful massage chairs which we sat in while we were soaking our feet and having our pedicures done. I chose a pink sparkly nail polish this time. After our toenails were painted, we hobbled over to another area and had our fingernails done. They took over an hour to do our nails and it was heavenly. Robyn and I decided that we NEEDED to get this done every six weeks. :-)
After this, we drove to the 'Hogsbreath Cafe' which is a chain restaurant specializing in steaks. Since it's Robyn's birthday this month, her lunch was free (with a coupon sent to her) and so she chose a delicious steak. I had a chicken wrap with curly fries. The weather was perfect and so we ate outside. Lovely! :-)
On Friday, I flew to Brisbane to meet Dad who had flown into Brisbane from Auckland earlier that day. Dad spent a week in Auckland teaching a group of ten guys about the A330 airplane. Dad says that the guys were keen and so it made for a good week. We arrived in Sydney at 5pm and, after we picked up the rental car, we drove to our serviced apartment. It's a nice one bedroom unit with the living room, dining room and kitchen being one room. They have girls come in and clean the unit twice a week.
Yesterday, Dad and I thought that it would be nice to go on a drive out of Sydney, but it turned out that our GPS is in Perth and our i-pad wasn't charged up and so we wouldn't have had a way to find our way to where we wanted to go (technology works.............sometimes :-) So, we ended up going shopping, but good shopping. :-) Dad has been wanting to get an i-pad for when we travel as he doesn't like using his one with all of his work stuff on it in case something happens to it - he has spent hours working on his courses and it would be awful if anything happened to it (although he has backed it all up). I didn't want to spend $500. on a regular sized i-pad, so I was very happy to see one of the stores here having the mini i-pad on sale for $265. We then bought accessories for it and then bought a camera with accessories as well. I forgot to bring our camera to Sydney and I knew we would be doing some sightseeing and also seeing my cousins and their kids and grandkids and so I really wanted to have a camera. Dad has been talking for a while about getting one for himself to use for his work to take pictures of the airplanes he is teaching about so that he can use it when he is doing his teaching.
Today, after church, we drove to the hotel which Dad is going to be teaching at for the next four weeks. He likes to find out ahead of time where he is going, where the room is that he will be teaching in and to make sure that his supplies have been delivered. When we arrived at the hotel, the girl at the front desk didn't have a clue about any of this and so we just asked her where the conference rooms were. When we got up there, we found a guy on the floor and it turned out that he was the manager in charge of the conference rooms. He showed Dad where the room was and in the room he had already placed all of the supplies which Dad would need to teach.
After this, we went to a local park to see if there was a walking track there which I could walk on while Dad is at work. We found a couple of cute little ones, but neither had a walking track in it. I want to go for a walk every day, but I might just be walking around the streets near the hotel.
Today was such a beautiful day so we didn't want to go back to the hotel just yet. We decided that we would drive to a beach nearby - we found one within 15 minutes of the hotel. When we got there, we found a bench to sit on which was a ways from the beach (Malabar Beach), but overlooked the tiny bay (Long Bay) which went into the ocean. It was an amazing view and was a fabulous way to spend our time this afternoon.
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