Food, friends, festivities

THURS 24th

Guthrie Govan. Shred guitarist. Super nice guy. Ryan and I helped out with the Thump Music Guthrie clinic in Sydney. We took tickets and organized crowds and we wore Thump Music hats and hung out and chatted. Guthrie was lovely a lot more down to earth than Satriani. Then we caught the train home with Tan and chatted lots. Good times

FRIDAY 25th

Today was a day filled with friends. It was lovely. I got up early and finished my Ephesians talk and was reminded about how amazing Gods love is. I caught up with Peter Lin and got the chance to pick his brain about issues which was nice. Then I went to THAC and gave the talk at the year 7-8 girls Christian group which was a really sweet group. After that I was meant to go gym, but ended up spending the afternoon with Lana and Dad. Then I met with Estelle for afternoon tea, rushed home and made dinner for Soong and also for Felix and Laura. Youth group was awesome, good discussions and good times. 

SATURDAY 26th

Pancake madness! We hung out and ate pancakes. People stayed all day. We built park benches and we cleaned my house and drank tea and ate bacon. Love those guys. The evening was Christmas in July and so Helen and I went and ate lots and lots of food. Oh and Mandy gave birth!

SUNDAY 27th 

Church was good. Got to have some great conversations with people who we don't normally talk to. Tristan and Thomas came over for lunch. We got to visit Mandy and Jason and baby Oliver in the evening as well. So fun!!! It was Ez Lau's birthday so he organized for people to go out to Marconi all you can eat for dinner. I don't enjoy all you can eats but I enjoyed spending time with people from church! 

Sick again

Thursday night:

Got my hair done! Yay 

Friday:

Wedding yay!

Red rooster for lunch yay!

Time with old friends yay!

Saturday:

Spent the day on the couch watching DVDs blowing my nose and eating jam and peanut butter toast

Sunday:

Same as Saturday except it was Soongs birthday yay! We ate pizza for lunch and watched DVDs. We went to Thai for dinner with his family. Came back to our house and are cake. 

Monday:

Took the day off work. Went to GYG with Ryan and Soong for some birthday burritos. Spent the rest of the day on the lounge watching DVDs. 

Midweek Mountains Amongst Other Things

My weekend began last Wednesday 2nd July. Mum, Lana, Simon, Julian, Kahnya, Adrian, Soong and I headed up to the Blue Mountains for a short getaway. We stayed in a cottage with a fireplace and central heating so we didn't feel the cold much thank goodness. We explored the Mountains on a tour bus, and saw lots of different places that we wouldn't have normally seen. We ate lunch out in different cafes every day and got to try all different types of cafe experiences. We played board games, watched movies, ate meals together and had a good time.

We came home on Saturday 5th July at midday. Soong and I spent some time together doing some of my favourite things, talking, eating and grocery shopping. We bought lots of fresh produce for the week and I spent the afternoon preparing meals and cooking with all the fresh ingredients. It feels good to not be as busy as we were in June and to have time to just prepare and enjoy cooking healthy meals.

That evening we were planning on visiting Soong's grandparents for dinner, but got a last minute phone call from Matt & Erin so decided to go to their house and play board games with them. It was really fun, we played The Office Monopoly and ate chicken parcels for dinner. I got to read Rowan a bedtime story and that was really special.

Sunday 6th July I started my day with a visit to the gym with Dad. I've now started going to the gym up the road from my house which he goes to, and so he ran me through some of the basics of his gym and put together a toning circuit for me to use. That was fun but boy was I sore the next day!

After the gym I rushed home to shower and get ready for church. Nathan our bible study leader preached on Exodus 25 - 40, on what great things we can learn about God from the building of the tabernacle. This was followed by the second half of church which was really encouraging. Church was smaller than usual but everyone who was there was really keen for church that day so it felt very positive.

I headed to Afryll's for lunch with a few other girls. It was a girls only lunch so we sent the boys out to have their own fun for the afternoon. We ate lunch, drank tea and chatted about all sorts of things. It was lovely to spend time with the girls, particularly some who I don't normally spend time with. We all agreed we should do it again!

In the evening we went to Grace's house for a barbecue. There was SO much food - it was brilliant! She was cleaning out her freezer so she had lots of meat to be cooked, and I was able to eat and stay under my calories as well which was great. We spent the evening there and then got home and headed straight to bed.

Lots of good times with good people.