HOLIDAYS, HOLIDAYS AND MORE HOLIDAYS!

These lizards are everywhere now that we aren't in the "cold" weather anymore.
December 29, 2010 Wednesday

It’s been a really slow week. Not only was Sunday Boxing Day, but Monday and Tuesday were both official holidays. The shops were open, but none of the government stuff. So today we went to the Post Office thinking we’d have some mail, but there was nothing. So either they didn’t start sorting the mail or it hadn’t been flown up from Perth. And next Monday is a holiday because of New Years.
This afternoon we went to the care center. We had a big bunch of folks there doing crosswords today. One lady, Diane, is Australian and looks like “nobody’s home” behind those eyes; but she comes up with so many answers, it’s just amazing. She can’t write, but she loves to come and help us get the answers.
Then we did the bread run. There wasn’t much excess bread today. We were done really quickly. We told the Young Women we saw today that we weren’t going to be doing Thursday night YW for a while because they weren’t coming to Sacrament Meeting anymore and that’s more important than YW. They’ve got the idea anymore that church is optional and they haven’t come for a really long time. Maybe this will get them back to church. I sure hope so.
We went out to watch the sunset tonight over by the port. The sky was beautiful all around us. The ocean had big breakers coming in. Last night we had a big thunder storm during the night. It reminded me of the storms in Indiana.