As many of you will be aware, we spent the first three weeks of holiday in Tassie. Gosh it was great. Time with family and friends and doing very little else.
Stuff we got up to in Hobart:
- Fairly successfully avoided college work (except for some language-revision, which I'm happy with).
- Read a few books that had sifted to the top of the pile.
- Watched half of the first series of Northern Exposure - time has taken it's toll, I think.
- Went to Richmond (with Pete and Pamela, who were visiting from Sydney)
- Took a trip up the mountain.
- Kate managed 2 colds in as many weeks; Noah had conjunctivitis and an ear infection simultaneously.
- And, of course, spent time together and with family (those who were in the state) and friends. (But, if we didn't get a chance to hang-out with you, it's not because we don't like you - we just couldn't cram more in!)
Then back in Sydney we had a lovely family picnic out at Vaucluse. (I'll put family / cute pictures onto Noah's blog - here's one that caught the lovely-ness of the day, though.)
We had a week back in Sydney before college resumed. We did some errands (like, finally got our licences changed to NSW; got our fridge fixed), watched some Scrubs (Season 4), and went on a Church Conference with the Cathedral... that was excellent. It reminded me of how important weekends-away are for building relationships. I think it was especially helpful for Katie, in giving her more a sense of belonging at church.
On a related note, the Conference also induced serious deja vu. It was at Merroo, in the Blue Mountains: the campsite where I went to Club 5 in 2000 and 2001. I was taken back to those halcyon days with Philip Jensen preaching on Zechariah; Chris' Skyline's breakdown in Yass; and mt growing realisation of the need for people to work full-time for the cause of Jesus... Halcyon days.
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