Sunday, February 17, 2013

Week ending 17 February 2013


This has been a good week.  We did all those things I mentioned last week except eating pancakes on Tuesday. We save those kind of breakfasts for the weekend when we have more time.
 
We bought Krispie Kreme doughnuts for the office on Valentine’s Day.  They were wonderful as always. 
 
We went and saw an Agatha Christie play entitled “Back for Murder” for Valentine’s day and loved it.

Friday night we finally went back to Spylaw Tavern and took the sisters.  They had never been there yet.  We had planned it many times but something always came up to keep us from going.  We think they were not as impressed with it as we are but at least they have been now.

 Saturday morning I had a meeting with our legal advisor who is serving in Sulihull, England.  They are from Los Angeles, California and go home in 4 months.  So he is going around the various missions making sure we are trained because their replacements will not be here until September or October and so the President will probably take on more of the responsibility and they want us to do more so the President does less.

 It was a good meeting and I found out that I have come a long way in reading and changing leases.  I could answer all the questions he and his wife asked and was able to provide them with the charts and answers they asked for.

 I have 12 leases to finish up or start and finish between now and April 10th.  I was in contact with the Crabbs this week and let them have a part in choosing the flat that they thought they would enjoy.  These are friends and work associates of Lee’s from his school days.  They will be going to Ireland on the 19th of March and so I will not see them.  We will have to meet up someday though.

 Saturday, we had the meeting and then I worked on Primary for a while. 
 
Then we met the Hambelton’s at Edinburgh Castle to attend some events they were doing in celebration of renaissance  days.  We attended one on musical instruments and music by a man dressed in costume.  He was wonderful.  He played six or seven different instruments that I had never seen before.  He was very entertaining.



 

 The next one was a man who is a journalist and author of books.  He told us about how we got the saying Thin Red line from the Crimean War when the Scottish infantry line stretched out across a valley only two men deep to deceive the enemy into thinking they had a lot of others behind them below the crest of the hill and the enemy turned and left.  They were wearing red jackets with white stripes and their kilts or "man skirts" as the author called them.

 

We then went out to dinner to a Mexican place to finish our day with the Hambelton’s.  They go home in May and we will miss them.  They live in Meridian though and so we will get to see them again when we get home.

 
It was a wonderful week. 

No comments:

Post a Comment