Needles and dinners!

At the end of every week, I look at my calendar and think, 'okay, it looks like a quieter week next week'! But that never happens! Somehow, the days fill up and the end of the week comes round again!

This week the two girls had their flu boosters and Shantel took it real bravely but Taleesha was already crying before they even started getting ready for her. Poor kid! They jabbed her twice, one in each leg. But that time she was full time crying. But a pretty bandaid and a sucker (lollipop) stopped the crying real quick and she was fine again. They both had their shots soon after arriving in USA but needed a booster, so the surgery sent out little reminder postcards informing me of their need to come back for their shots.

Friday night was our long anticipated gourmet/fondue dinner with the families (all related!) around the Rock/Hillview Road. We had taken our gourmet set along and even sourced a dutch to USA power adaptor! So when we were all ready to start cooking, we turned it on and waited for it to get hot. It was taking a bit long so we inspected it and realised that because our unit is for 240v and USA is 110v, there was not enough power to heat it up. So Steve went home and got the step up transformer which he was using for his organ. We plugged that in and turned on the switch and waited.....only to see the light switch off again. Checked the fuse and sure enough, it had blown! This time it was too many watts!! So Bernice got out her griddle (flat frypan) and we started cooking on that. In the mean time, Marty went to another relative down the road and picked up four more burners! So to cut a long story short: we had fun but didn't end up using our set! Food was great and so was the company. Thanks guys! Did I hear it was going to be an annual tradition?

Cooking on the griddle

Marty and Jo

Rick and Janice

Marv and Bernice

Mrs V mother of Marv

After going to bed past midnight Friday, the alarm woke me up at 6:45am for bootcamp..... So an hour of routines and exercise, and I was ready for the day! We did some stuff in the house, Steve hung his organ speakers, I picked up an upright freezer from our old neighbour, baked some raisin bread, and then it was time go out for dinner with Darryn and Bea. We went to Fairhaven, a quaint little town about 45 minutes away. Had dinner at 'The Big Fat Fish Company'. Great food and great company again. 

Darryn and Bea

After dinner, we drove around and spotted this cute double decker bus turned into a diner!

For the Perth metro Aussies, it just needs the word 'retirement' in-between!

We found a cafe sort of like Fast Eddys and had hot chocolates and sundaes!

We had fantastic time and it was great to catch up.

Thanks for stopping by.