The first half of this week was filled with appointments (including another facial 😁) , a morning tea with a bunch of retired teachers, a lunch with my friend, Bronwyn, and a dinner with Robyn and friends, Thea, Rachael and Fiona (and yes, more iced chocolates were had 😃). My friend, Maureen gave me a wooden giraffe that her daughter wanted to get rid of - Maureen knows how much I love giraffes and so she rescued it and gave it to me - so thoughtful of her - and now the giraffe has a place of honour in our front hall. It's quite worn, but we are just saying that it has a lot of character. 😊
Dinner with Thea, Fiona, Robyn and Rachael
On Wednesday night, Dad and I went to Robyn's for dinner - she also invited Thea and her daughter, Rachael, to join us. Thea and Rachael used to live in Hervey Bay, but Thea's husband, Martin, could not find work here and so they moved back to Perth. It was great to catch up with them (they had stayed at our house on Tuesday night and at Robyn's on Wednesday night). It was also great to be able to spend more time with Robyn since we are travelling so much right now.
On Wednesday, Dad texted the instructor, who was staying in the Perth unit which the company recently purchased, to let him know that we would be coming out on Thursday (early) and staying with him at the unit. Dad got a text back saying 'no, don't come until Saturday when I have left'. Dad texted him back and told him that the flights had already been booked. He received another text back saying that he (the instructor) was 'very angry' about this. Dad didn't know what to think about it all and so he messaged the training manager to find out what was going on. It turned out that this instructor has been really ornery for the past three months and so we thought it better to not stay at the unit. Dad found it all a bit unsettling and I was upset that this instructor upset Dad.
We decided that we would still like to go early and so we booked into an Airbnb just down the street from the unit. It turned out to be a perfect place to stay. The guesthouse was in the back yard of a house owned by Crystal and her brother, Joel. It was built for their grandma and then rented to a friend and now Crystal has decided to list it as an Airbnb place. The design was really well thought out and it was quite roomy. The bed and pillows were so comfortable. Crystal provided cereal, milk, bread, peanut butter, jam and vegemite for breakfast which was really appreciated. Dad and I mostly relaxed for the two days we stayed there. It was great after being full-on for the past 2 1/2 months. We also spent some time walking around the area to get to know the neighbourhood - it's close to the airport where Dad will be teaching, as well as close to the leisure centre/gym (which I signed up for), the library and a large mall.
We moved into the company unit yesterday and it's really nice - a two-storey, three bedroom house in an eight house complex. There's a nice park down the street which we could go walking around when Dad gets home from work each night. We need to get back to our exercise and eating plan - we didn't do so well when we were in Canada. 😏
The living room looking out into the back yard
Today, we went to church in the Cloverdale Ward (which we attended last time we were here last year) and the Bishop still remembered us, which was nice. Some other members also welcomed us back to the ward and one man even said that, since we were going to be here for five weeks, they could extend a calling to us. We laughed and told him that they had said the same thing to us when we were in Melbourne. 😊
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