Since there was no Good News Club today, and Nick cancelled the prayer meeting, we had the whole day entirely at our disposal. I had in mind to do Diana’s Peak with the boys and Nick, but it was quite overcast during the morning so we decided not to do that, instead going to town together, via Jean and Joe to drop off a present, and Steve and Maureen. Jean was out at the time, but we saw her in town, and she asked if we could come to her house today (not knowing we had already been) because she had something (more) for us. As it happened, we gave her a lift home, and she had a bunch of groceries for us again – pork chops, beef steaks, drumsticks, chicken burgers, beef burgers, potatoes, onions, beans, biscuits, Chamdor…very generous. Then we came home and had lunch, and after lunch watched a DVD together, about a bunch of animals who escape from a zoo (In the Wild).
There was a big parade down the street at about 5 pm, which we watched together. Supper was a different fish called Grouper, which was deboned and filleted, so I battered it and we had it with chips. It was quite good – nice change from tuna. After supper we gave the boys a quick bath, and then headed off to town again. Tonight is the big night where all the kids go shopping for Christmas, so all the shops were really busy. The parade had by this time made its way back up the road again, so there was a truck with a live band outside the Cannister, and people dancing in the street. It was very festive and fun to watch. We didn’t take long to choose what the boys were going to buy (this with money given to them by one of our church ladies, particularly for them to spend tonight), settling on a pirate playset – it has a ship, and a rowboat and raft, and a sort of castle thing. They are so excited about it, so we let them play with it for ten minutes after we got home before sending them to bed, at about 7.40.
There was a big parade down the street at about 5 pm, which we watched together. Supper was a different fish called Grouper, which was deboned and filleted, so I battered it and we had it with chips. It was quite good – nice change from tuna. After supper we gave the boys a quick bath, and then headed off to town again. Tonight is the big night where all the kids go shopping for Christmas, so all the shops were really busy. The parade had by this time made its way back up the road again, so there was a truck with a live band outside the Cannister, and people dancing in the street. It was very festive and fun to watch. We didn’t take long to choose what the boys were going to buy (this with money given to them by one of our church ladies, particularly for them to spend tonight), settling on a pirate playset – it has a ship, and a rowboat and raft, and a sort of castle thing. They are so excited about it, so we let them play with it for ten minutes after we got home before sending them to bed, at about 7.40.
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