Dad's course finished on Friday and boy, is he ever glad to be done - that was a long five weeks. He had two more tests this week and scored 100% on both. Dad said that he was glad to have received the high marks when Harry was teaching so that he could see that Dad really did know his stuff. So, now that he has completed the course, he can teach it starting next year.
On Wednesday, after Dad got home, he drove me to my friend, Rosalea's place, so that I could spend a couple of days with her. Rosalea and her husband, Rob, lived in HB for a couple of years and we became friends with them when we first moved here. Rosalea's granddaughter was born four years ago and so they decided to move back to Perth shortly after the birth. Rob works in the mines and so he was gone for two weeks and Rosalea was glad to have me visit.
On Thursday, we went out for the morning/early afternoon. Our first stop was to a physiotherapist - Rosalea had a knee operation earlier this year and she needs to get physiotherapy to help her recover. I told her that my left arm was still hurting and she asked if I would like to see her physiotherapist. I originally was going to wait until I got back to HB, but I couldn't get an appointment with my doctor until next Thursday, so I decided to go for it with Rosalea's physiotherapist. Jane, the physiotherapist, was fabulous! She poked and prodded both my arms to figure out what was wrong - it's the tendon. She taped it for me and then gave me a couple of exercises to do. She also told me to take some medication to reduce the inflammation. So, I now have a nice bright pink bandage on my arm.
My lovely pink bandage
After that, we went to 'The Coffee Club' - Rosalea had never had an iced chocolate, so I HAD to buy one for her (and me, too, of course :-) She loved it! We decided to get 'Subway' for lunch and then head home as she was tired by this time. We spent the rest of the day sitting and chatting and watching a little tv. Dad picked me up the next morning (Friday) and we spent the rest of the day cleaning the unit and packing to get ready for our flight on Saturday.
Our iced chocolate from 'The Coffee Club'
Dad and I flew from Perth to Brisbane yesterday, arriving in Brisbane around 3:30pm. We caught a bus to the airport hotel and were pleasantly surprised when we saw our large room. After dropping off our luggage, we walked across the road to the outlet mall to look for a wallet (I'm calling it my 'Canadian wallet' as I will use it when I come to Canada so that I don't have to change my wallet over every time I travel). There are so many nice wallets out in the stores here, but I wanted one like I bought in Canada which has a wrist strap on it. We went into this store and asked if they had wrist straps for sale (the girl gave me an extra one she had in the back) and then I happened to find a really nice wallet at the same store - leather and at a good price!
My new 'Canadian' wallet
Dad and I spent the rest of the evening relaxing and watching tv. It was so nice not to have anything to do. This morning, we got up early to take advantage of the buffet breakfast which was included with the price of the room. It was a great hot and cold buffet and there was everything there you can imagine (except for waffles).
The flight home was uneventful (all 40 minutes of it) and Rob, our shuttle driver, was there to pick us up. It turned out that he had overbooked and so his wife, Bernie, came to drive us home along with another couple. After dropping them off first, we were going to be dropped off next - then Bernie got a call from Rob saying that she needed to do the pick-up at a hotel. She asked us if we minded going to the hotel and then to the airport before taking us home. We were quite okay to do that - we had had such a short flight and so were not tired. It was good to finally get home, though - we are hoping for a nice relaxing week. We still have no idea where/when Dad will be going next, but we will just take things as they come.
