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Weekend with Arts girls

Sunday, 02 July, 2006

Friday 23rd June

Finished the indices with Guan's help in double-checking that I'd entered the changes properly. Sent it off to our designer.

Went to pick up Elsie, then drove back to the vicinity of MM so we could do shopping for the weekend. We decided to pick up fruit of the chocolate fondue later because we were both rather tired, so we loaded up the groceries and went back to my place where I finished packing and Elsie watched WaveAid before we made risoni hot pot for dinner and waited for Arnjali to show up.

Arnjali was quite late and we couldn't reach her on the home phone or on her mobile. But she finally turned up with her bags and lots of apologies and we ate dinner. She said that she was still coming but she was going to leave our weekend jaunt early. This was a little disappointing but she had good reasons for doing so, so who were we to argue?

We loaded up the car and said goodbye to Ben and drove south to Cronulla where we went to stay at Tony and Laurelle's beach house. It was pouring with rain but their son helped us with the bags (and also helped us reverse the car out of the long narrow drive way and park it on the street). And we were tired but I said that if we didn't do chocolate fondue now, we'd never do it. So we did and I sat and listened to Elsie and Arnjali give me a potted history of the Arts Faculty at UNSW and how the ministry there was going. Fascinating stuff.

We didn't get to sleep until about 1 a.m. and that was partly my fault—I kept reading aloud to them bits of Prayer and the Voice of God and Jack's Life by Douglas Gresham.

Saturday 24th June

Here's a picture of the place where we were staying:

It had this awesome floor to ceiling windows that looked out over the beach and the shores of Port Hacking

We got up at 10 and decided to go have brunch at Cronulla. The rain had stopped and it was a glorious day. After wandering around all the cafés, we decided to go to Alleybreak and ate our brunch outdoors. Then we headed up to the corso and got distracted by the free live music that was playing. Elsie went off wandering in the shops but Arnjali and I just sat there and listened and befriended a three-legged dog whose owner was nearby. And Francis and Erin just happened to be around too so they sat and had lunch with us.

It was getting late and I was conscious of the time so we headed off with the intention of going back to the car, but we got sidetracked by the chemist (where Arnjali got herself a wheat heat pack like mine and I found some mango-smelling moisturiser) and then by various other shops as we tried to find a present for our hosts, and finally a secondhand bookshop which had cheap J.I. Packer (I got The Fisherman's Lady by George MacDonald, The Truth About Jesus by Paul Barnett and The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White). And then we hopped in the car and drove Arnjali home, despite her protests that it was so far out of our way. (We figured that if we drove her home, then we'd get to spend some more time with her, given that she was leaving the weekend early, plus it meant she wouldn't have to catch the train.)

After dropping Arnjali off, Elsie and I returned to Cronulla and ate leftover chicken stew for dinner. Elsie made congee and I watched the bits of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days that I had missed (which still make it a very good movie). We started watching the Keira Knightley/Matthew MacFadyen Pride & Prejudice but Elsie couldn't stand it so I contented myself with extra features and she sat there and read Howl's Moving Castle.

Once again it was a late night because we couldn't stop chatting.

Sunday 25th June

We made ourselves get up at about 8:30, pack and clean the beachhouse and then give our present to our hosts and go. We drove to Miranda Fair (Elsie had never been there) and actually managed to find a parking spot on the roof. First stop was Target where we went looking for all the Hello Kitty merchandise. We found all of them except the toater:

We wandered the shops until we got sick of it (and I got sick of it pretty fast!) but I did manage to find a European square pillow for $10, a cheap journal, a birthday present for Peter and Philip Pullman's The Shadow of the North for $2.

Then in the afternoon I dropped Elsie home, came home and unpacked a bit, went to church band practice, had church and ended up staying back after everyone else had gone, helping the cooks with doing the last of the wash up.

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