Sunday, 12 November, 2017

This week was another week of prepping for Dad - he still hasn't heard if the course is going on for sure - the last he heard was that his boss was trying to secure permission to use some company's airplane for this practical course.  Dad reckons the prepping will be valuable in the future even if this course doesn't happen.  He has basically been prepping from 9am to 5pm each day with only a short break for lunch. 

I have been able to go to a few exercise classes this week which I was really happy about - back to Tai Chi, Aquafit and a new class called 'Bands and Movement' which was pretty much as the title suggests: a lot of using the stretch bands and a lot of walking back and forth in the room.  It wasn't exactly exhilarating, but I find that I am more likely to 'get up and move' if I have a class to go to, so I might try this class again when we are back in town on a Friday. 

I also got in a little pampering this week: a facial, a haircut (I got foils put in my hair this time - Christa, my hairdresser, chose to put in three different dyes) and a lunch out (with Robyn).  Robyn also came over for dinner twice this week - once the missionaries joined us.  We have a new missionary in our ward who just arrived this week and it was nice to get to know him and hear the message they shared about the 'Plan of Salvation'.  Elder Prows used some visual aids which his sisters had made for him to use out on his mission - I thought that was really sweet of them to do that for him.

 Just thought you would like to see what my hairdo looks like after Helen has finished her facial on me - she does some massaging of product on my face and then puts on some more product which needs to be left on for a while - during that time, she massages my head and this is what I look like when she is done :-)  I told her that she had outdone herself this time

Showing the colours of my new 'dye job'

My new haircut

 Robyn and I went out for lunch to a cute little cafe called 'Cereal Addiction' which also sells American cereal - I ordered a sumptuous roast beef toastie and Robyn had the taco toastie and then we shared half with each other

 Robyn and her iced chocolate - we both had one - very yummy :-)

Our missionaries - Elder Prows from Utah and Elder Choi from South Korea

Elder Choi has never had pavlova, so we made him one for dessert - he loved it - and so did we! :-)

Last night, I babysat the Louws girls - Scarlett and Indiana - who are 6 and 5.  I have babysat them a few times and they are adorable little girls.  Neither of their grandparents live in Hervey Bay, so I guess I am like a substitute grandma when I am in town.  I brought over books to read to them, a puzzle book to work on with them plus a cookie mix to bake with them - they loved doing all  of the activities and it was fun being with them.  Their parents, Lisa and Ben, just had twin baby girls, Harper and Macy, last month, so I got to get a little cuddle in with them when Lisa and Ben came home - it's so nice to cuddle with little babies. 😄

Sunday, 5 November, 2017

Dad was back to the grind this week prepping for his upcoming B777 practical course.  It's been so long since Dad's been around that airplane, so he is a bit rusty.  He spent most of the days this week working on reviewing the tasks the students have to do and preparing paperwork for the course.  His friend, Niles, who has taught this course many times before, shared some of his resources with Dad which I thought was so nice of him - and Dad was so appreciative of that also. 

While Dad was prepping, I was socializing or rather relaxing and socializing:  Wednesday, I had a facial; Thursday, I had a massage (as did Dad) and Friday, I met up with my friend, Bronwyn, for 'afternoon tea' (of course, I had my 'usual' iced chocolate 😊).  It was great to catch up with Bronwyn again - she and her husband had just returned from a trip to Ireland, Scotland and England, so she and I spent most of the time talking about our experiences in those countries (even though it's been 30 years since we all were in the UK and over 10 years since Dad and I travelled to Ireland, I could still remember a lot of our time there and how much I loved travelling in those countries).  I still want to go back to England again - I love London - and I also would love to see the Lake District and Bath and surrounding area.

Me with yet another iced chocolate - so yummy - Bronwyn doesn't like getting her photo taken so I just get her to take a pic of me when we get together 

We had the missionaries over for dinner on Thursday (I forgot to take photos again 😐) - Elder Evans (from Perth) and Elder Choi (from South Korea) - and, as usual, we had a lovely time chatting with them while we ate and then listening to them as they shared their lesson.  The new thing that they do for dinner appointments now is share a message which they will be sharing with one of their investigators later that week - it's kind of like a practice for them.  This week's message was about the ten commandments - it was a good review.  In my Book of Mormon study this week, it was about the ten commandments as well and one of the questions I had to answer was 'which commandment can you work at this week'.  I chose to work on 'keeping the Sabbath Day 'more' holy, so we discussed a bit about that with the missionaries.