The Australia Day party went over really well. I made Anzac Biscuits, Lamingtons, Pavlova and the individual pies as well as sausage rolls. I even was able to purchase a jar of marmite and made the Americans eat some of it on crackers. Such fun - only spread it thinly!
My friend Jan could not come. She has fibromyalgia and it was acting up and the drive up to Prescott was certainlyout of the question. It was raining all weekend and so Australia Day was Wet - and Graham wrote that is was raining in Queensland for Australia Day - due to the cyclone no doubt.
On Monday I went to the Community quilts group at Las Fuentes and cut out Oliver's quilt using the Go Cutter machine that the guild owns. He likes green and blue and I picked out all the green and blue from my stash to make the quilt and when I finally looked at what I had collected I found that they were pretty much all the same value so they will read well with the teal blue background that I am using for him.
On Tuesday I went to Zumba in the morning. Bobbie gave us her tickets to STOMP at the Yavapai College auditorium. She and Len are in Florida where Len is getting surgery done. The show was amazing. I did not really know what to expect of the show but it was fantastic what they did. It was NOISE from beginning to end with no let up. The thing I noticed was that there was no one out of step with the others. We went to a performance of tap dance at Southern Utah University when Sara was a student there and she pointed out that all the dancers had to be on time or it would be cacophonous. They were all wearing tone taps and yes, it would have been very noticeable if one was out of step. It was the same with STOMP - they used brooms, cigarette lighters, washtubs, garbage cans, paper bags, plastic bags, pipes, sticks and a myriad of other items that they tapped, pounded or just grazed to make noise.
After the show, we drove over to Sedona for Bill to do two days of work there. He booked us into Motel 8. We will not be staying there again. When we talk about bare bones motel we need look no further than Motel 8. The only good thing was that it was very close to the store so we did not have to go looking a long way for it. While Bill was working I was sewing on Oliver's quilt. I took my featherweight machine with me to sew it up but the curves in the quilt take a lot of work to put together. I visited the quilt shop and they told me about a quilt show in the public library so I walked over to the library to see the quilt show. The quilts were fantastic......and some of them were quite innovative. I also found a bead store..............Yay team! and they were having a SALE! it does not get much better than that.
At the motel there were two Japanese Girls who were there for the Marathon that is to take place February 2. They were surprised to hear a white person speak Japanese to them. They really struggle with English.
We came home from Sedona on Thursday evening.
Today I went to swim class and discovered that my swimsuit needs to be discarded - the chlorine in the water has destroyed the lycra etc. Bill went to do a shift at the Family History Center and he said that they had 8 patrons today. That is a lot for a Friday.
Tonight was the Pinewood Derby in Lincoln and Ethan's car won and he got first prize. He also crossed over from cub scouts to boy scouts - so I guess the next achievement for him will be EAGLE rank before he turns 18. I know he will ace all the science merit badges.
One of the girls from church is in the High School Band and she and her father came over to serenade us and beg for a donation to the school. We asked that the tickets we bought be given to people who really could use them as a night out.
Bill has his schedule for next week - we will be in Sedona on Tuesday and before he goes to work we will take a Pink Jeep tour of the red rocks of Sedona. This is something I have wanted to do for the 14 years we have lived here. He also has to work two days at Prescott Valley. It is good that he has these shifts to do - it helps us financially. I like traveling with him to the distant places and I can explore the shops etc. there.
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