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Monday, 18 December, 2006

Another busy weekend. I must be experiencing them in spades. On Thursday we went to the FEVA Mission International Christmas Feast and gorged ourselves on Francis's delightful cooking (will post photos sometime). On Friday I worked a 9.5-hour day and came home and collapsed. On Saturday we drove to Wollongong and crashed Andrew and Emma's wedding (we weren't invited but we asked them if we could come and they said yes, so we came and just made sure we didn't eat anything). I caught up with a lot of people that I didn't expect to see and was finally able to offer my congratulations to Simon in person (he and Amanda got engaged recently).

Ben and I left when the speeches were starting and walked over to the mall to get lunch (gawking at the Ibis hotel which now graces the bottom half of the lot where St. Michael's is; I hadn't seen it since it was finished). Then we drove back to Sydney.

In the afternoon I got a call from Kathleen who just happened to be in Sydney for the weekend for work (having moved the day before in the rain and gotten up at 5 o'clock in the morning to catch a plane). She was on the bus already so I walked down and met her at the bus stop. I gave her a quick tour of our neighbourhood and our house (which she loved) and then we drove to the park next door to our church for the carols service. The theme was “Thank God You're Here” and Cameron had made this fabulous blue wall with a door in it which had the words “Thank God You're Here” next to it (must post photos some time). They used it for the skits that were interspersed throughout the program. We had sausages for dinner and watched the kids run around. It started to sprinkle but despite the rain, the planes and the sound issues, the carols went ahead anyway.

Afterwards we ran into one of the girls who used to be in our faculty in Wollongong and who is now living in the area. We invited her to come for gelato in Newtown (since she said she had never been to Newtown) but she had to go so Ben, Kathleen and I went to Newtown by ourselves. We gave Kathleen a quick tour of Moore College (stopping to chat to Bernard through his screen door) and then went to the Ice 'n Slice. (Note to self: must try the cardamon flavour with coconut next time.) On the way back to the car, we ran into Leigh and Zoe who we hadn't seen for ages and ages (they were out with Zoe's work Christmas party). I'm sure Kathleen now thinks that Sydney is really friendly because we kept bumping into random people we knew and saying hi.

And then we dropped Kathleen off at her hotel (with a map of the city of importance places like Kinokuniya, King's Comics and nice places to get breakfast) and drove home. And on Sunday we were up again driving out to Mount Annan for Duncan's graduation party (not that Duncan), listening to David Jones preach on Psalm 24 on the way so I could tell Simon which bit he had to edit before we put it online as a web extra. We got there half an hour early so we helped Duncan and Christie set up, and then all these people we didn't know came (along with a couple of ex-college people who were ex-Dapto people as well) and we had a nice lunch and left at around 3 o'clock to go home to do laundry and collapse again before it was time for church. (But fortunately we weren't on band because the mission team was doing band instead.)

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