When we got back from our trip to Canada, we had three whole days at home before flying out here to Perth. The company has rented another two bedroom unit here which is close to the previous one. We are here with another instructor, Siri (short for his last name which is Sirianni) and his wife, Joyce. Siri is actually a student on this course so that he can teach the electronic part of it in the future so that Dad's boss, Harry, no longer has to teach it.
Dad's course has been going really well. He finished the theory part of the course the week before last on which he had 15 students. This past week and this coming week is the hands-on part of the course which Dad prefers to the theory. They have been very fortunate here as they have had easy access to an airplane almost every day.
Our first Sunday here, we met up with our friends, Rosalea and Rob, who used to live in Hervey Bay and moved back to Perth a few years ago. They invited us for dinner along with another couple from the ward. The church sure is a small place - turns out that the husband of the couple grew up with a friend of ours from England who spent a few years in Canada back when we were living in Springdale. We had a lovely dinner and good conversation with everyone.
The following Friday was Dad's birthday. We celebrated that day with a sushi lunch (for Dad) and a burrito (for me). After that, we went geocaching near where we are staying. We looked for two of them, but could only find one. The first one was supposedly under a gazebo at the water's edge, but as hard as we looked, we could not locate it. The second one was easy to find - after doing it (geocaching) so much, we are getting quite good at figuring out where things might be hidden (most of the time :-) We were using our new gps which Dad ordered over the net while we were in Canada. Dad was having so much trouble loading geocache locations onto our old gps and so he decided that we needed to get a new one. He really likes this new one - he is still learning all the bells and whistles it has, but it is really easy to download geocaches onto and he is really happy about that. We bought two slices of cheesecake for dessert after dinner to top off Dad's birthday day.
Burrito for my lunch
On the Saturday, we went out to Hogsbreath (mid-range steak house chain restaurant) with Siri and Joyce. Dad had a coupon for a free meal there for his birthday. It's expensive for what you get, but since Dad had the free meal we figured it was a good place to go and celebrate his birthday again. :-) Dad had prime rib and shrimp and I had prime rib and ribs (I shared my ribs with Dad) and then we shared a yummy chocolate mud cake for dessert.
The next day, Sunday, Rosalea and Rob picked me up and we went to Rottnest Island which is about a 45 minute boat ride from Perth. Rob has an underwater metal detector and he wanted to go to Rottnest Island to do some detecting - it's a treasure trove for money and rings (lost by tourists who come to visit). Rob spends most of the days doing that so Rosalea wanted me to come along for company for her They rented an old furnished cabin for five nights and brought all the food we would need for the week. We each brought a bike to get around the island, as well.
Most of the days, while Rob was doing his thing, Rosalea and I sat on the beach or hung out at the cabin. They had brought a tv and dvd player and dvds from home, so we also watched a couple of movies during the day -'The Book Thief' which I have wanted to see for a while - I would rate it an 8.5) and 'We Bought A Zoo' (a 7 rating from me). At night, we watched sessions from General Conference which they had downloaded from the net onto a USB stick and also more movies. It was a very relaxing week for Rosalea and me.
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