Sunday, 1 April, 2018

Another week down for Dad and it was the last week of theory for him - he was glad to be done this part of the course - five weeks is a long time to be teaching, Dad says.  I reminded him that we public school teachers taught for thirteen weeks in our first term with only two days off - he wasn't impressed. 😃  All the guys passed the final exam - phew!  Now Dad will have a week off while another instructor, Garth, teaches a week about avionics (the electronics part of the course).  Then, Dad and Garth will both teach for the following week and Dad will teach the final week on his own.

On Tuesday, after work, Dad went geocaching by himself.  We had tried to find this one cache near the airport previously and, even though we spent a long time searching for it, we just couldn't find it.  We really wanted to find this one as it had a couple of travel bugs in it and we wanted to help their owner move them along.  Dad contacted the owner of the cache, explained the situation and asked for a hint.  Using that info, he was able to find the cache and retrieve the travel bugs - success!

The cache container that was hidden really well in a bridge which went over a highway near the airport

A view of the bridge from the backside. The cache was hiding in the support for the light bar that lights up the side of the bridge structure

I continued on with my exercise classes and my strength training sessions at the gym this week.  Also this week was another meeting with the library knitting group - they were much more welcoming this week and one lady there even remembered me from last time we were here in Perth!  Another of the women was using four double pointed needles to knit a baby beanie and I asked her if she would show me how to do it next time we met to which she agreed.

On Wednesday, the sister missionaries from the ward we are attending here, came to visit with us at the house.  They just wanted a chance to get to know us a little better since we are visiting here for quite a while.  One of them is from Sydney and one is from Melbourne.  We had a lovely chat with them and then they left us with a spiritual message - the funny thing was that the message they left with us was from a passage of scripture I had just read that day in my scripture study. 😊  It's always nice to have the missionaries in our home as they bring such a sweet spirit with them.

On Thursday, I met up again with my friend, Thea.  She and her son, Jackson, had to drive to Fremantle which is about 20 minutes from their house to drop something off, so Thea asked me if I would like to join them for their appointment and then she and I would go off and leave Jackson to find his way home after he met up with some friends.  Fremantle is a really nice place - lots of beautiful architecture - and I enjoy going there.  We had a really nice time eating lunch at the 'Coffee Club' and chatting away the time.

 Thea with her mint milkshake (and lunch)

 Me with my iced chocolate (and lunch)

Our lunch dessert - a yummy passionfruit pavlova

Dad had the day off work on Friday as it was Easter Friday - he was so worn out from teaching the course that he just wanted a day off to do nothing - I didn't even get out of my jammies that day - having a 'day off' every once in a while is a nice way to rejuvenate.

After staying home all day Friday, it was time to get out and about yesterday and so we spent the day geocaching.  We searched for twelve geocaches and were able find all twelve!  It's been really good for geocaching in Perth - there are tons of caches out here. 

 Such a cute cache

 The cache owner put a small plastic container into this cute cache which held the log book, etc.

 This cache was slid into that pole - I am holding the top cap of the pole which was slid on top of the pole - very tricky, eh?

 Lunch time - we found this cute bench to sit on

 This was our view from the bench

Interesting gnarly rooted tree 

 

Cool bird standing on the bridge we had to walk over to get to a geocache