This week was full of appointments for us. When we are home, we have to try and fit in all of our doctor's, etc. appointments since we never know when we will be back home again. This week, I had my yearly breast ultrasound (all clear), a massage (so relaxing!), a chiropractor's visit (much needed) and a facial (mmmm, I love being pampered!). Dad also had a massage and a chiro visit.
I also got together with my friends, Bronwyn and Chantelle. Since Chantelle works as a teacher in a city nine hours away, we only get to get together with her when she is home during school holidays. We met at the Coffee Club for our usual iced chocolate and had a good long yak. I met with Chantelle on Tuesday and we talked for three hours! Then, the two of us met again with Bronwyn the next day for about an hour. I love catching up with my friends and having an iced chocolate is a bonus! :-)
As you know, Dad and I are not New Year's Eve people. We did manage to see midnight, said 'Happy New Year' and turned over and went to sleep. :-)
On Saturday, we went to a geocaching event held about two hours from HB. It was organized by a long-time geocacher (Keith) specifically for newbies (people who had found less than 100 caches) to come and learn more about geocaching from more experienced geocachers. Keith had placed a number of brand new caches in the area so that the newbies could be the first-to-find the geocaches. Many of the newbies went out with the oldies to find these caches. Dad and I felt that we had enough experience to go out on our own. We were able to find out first cache quite easily. After we found the first one, we went back to where Keith was to get a list of the rest of the caches. We found 7 out of 8 of the caches - we couldn't find one as we couldn't find a place to park to get to it - we did see one couple find it, but they had parked their car on the side of the highway and we didn't think you were allowed to do that unless it was an emergency.
There was one cache which we had a real difficult time finding. We actually came up to find it and found two other couples searching for the cache and we joined in the search. None of us could find it and so we went back to Keith to let him know. He then told us exactly where he put it and we all went back to find it. While we were talking with one of the couples, we told them we were from HB and they told us they were from Maryborough which is half an hour from HB. Liz and Bruce were there with another couple and asked us to come over and visit them some time. It was really nice to meet another couple who enjoys geocaching and live so close. We are looking forward to meeting up with them when we get back from our cruise. We have no pics to share, though - we had our camera with us, but we were so caught up in everything there, that we completely forgot to take any photos. Dad and I really enjoyed our day and look forward to doing more geocaching. Some of the people there had thousands of found geocaches - Dad and I have about 95 now, so we have a long way to go to catch up to some of the others.
Dad and I worked a lot today on Relief Society Activity things - I love Pinterest! There are so many amazing ideas on that site. I am good at finding what I need and Dad is good at working on the computer to get things just the way I want them. We have made up invitations for the year, plus invites for people to lead the activities, plus a yearly calendar of the activities, plus recipes for the luncheons / refreshments. Dad has worked just as hard on things for R.S. that I told him that he should consider this his calling, too. :-) I am really pleased at how much we have been able to get done and I think that the activities are going to be fun and a learning experience and most of all, an opportunity for the sisters to get together and socialize and get to know each other better.
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