It is Friday evening and we have finished our shift at the temple, had a bite to eat at Seafood Gourmet and are anticipating a beach day tomorrow. It has been a long two weeks - we did 8:00-2:00 shifts at the Squash venue for the South Pacific Games from Monday to Thursday each week. This is a very small venue, selling about 50 tickets during our shift. The Samoan people scheduled to take over on Thursday and Friday never turned up for their shifts so they lost revenue there. Sister Wagstaff and I decided we would come in Friday of this week (today) in case they didn't show again but after yesterday, we made an executive decision with the ticket manager that we were done - we only sold 6 tickets in 6 hours yesterday!
The basketball games have been fun to watch - occasionally we would go back in the evening and watch Samoa play. There is even a boy from Lethbridge on the team.Each evening at the government building in Apia by the harbour, there has been entertainment in honor of the games. We spent some time down there last night sitting on the grass and listening with the crowd. We went the night before with the Smarts but got there too late and just walked the sea wall. I love the walks, Roy tolerates them but likes the company. I actually have started to walk in the mornings around the compound and the track. It feels so good to get some exercise and especially in the cool of the morning.
This week has been quite rainy and windy so it has been nicely cool at times - glad it is now and not when any of the kids were here - the beach just isn't the same when it is rainy. (it is still hot, just not as hot as it could be). We went to Return to Paradise Beach last Saturday and took the Wagstaffs with us - they are the missionaries who arrived about a month ago and are in charge of training the Temple engineers to properly take care of the building. They are a cute couple in their sixties and are certified divers. They didn't bring their equipment with them so we just snorkel with them. I (Kathy) am glad that they are avid beach bums like I am and want to go each week.
We anticipate Ian, Sharleen and Neko's visit in 1 1/2 weeks - yes, we are really excited.
2 comments:
such a beautiful temple! and i'm jealous that you get to go to the beach everyday!
That is a beautiful picture of the temple! I too am jealous that you get to go to the beach a ton!!! And how neat that your kids get to come visit you guy's...that must be so so fun.
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