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Date: 21 February 2005 04:32:02
Had a Church board retreat on the weekend. What a adventure it was to be.
Left straight after Yoof on Friday got to the place. But we only had dodgy directions and turned up and it was just a small church not a house like we were told. Called the contacts to find it was three houses down. But they told us it was the way we came. It was actually the other way! We found it after half and hour and waliking through stranger's property looking for the right house.
Discussed church business till 2.30 am! Then the boys hung out. I went for a walk on the island and managed not to be attacked by kurlews. They are local birds that can be vicious. I was the only one all weekend to come in contact with the beach. Went to bed at 3.30.
Woken at 8 and back into business. Good discussion about the future of our Church. We broke for lunch at 12. Went to the local one stop shop. The only shop on the island so the line was huge and slow. I got a home made meat pie. On my final bite i realised something was missing MEAT! That's right went the whole pie and no meat but carrot, capsicum and peas. And it was like 4 bucks for the pie!! Not happy at all and then i had no evidence that it had no meat. I kept thinking there has to be some meat in here somewhere. I did answer the riddle that had plagued my brain since the night before when we got on the ferry. It was the name of the bartender on the original love boat. The answer is Isaac Washington. It randomly popped in my head. Very strange how my brain works sometimes.
We got roughly done by three thirty. I thought cool I can go home and spend some quality time with the lovely one. But then the rambling and going around in circles happened. Want to get me frustrated start arguing around in circles. Then to make things better bring in other topics that are not related. And we just made the ferry at 6.15. I pushed things along otherwise it was another half an hour. I would have cried if I saw the ferry pull out as we walked down the street.
Got back to my car to find a fifty dollar parking fine on the car!!! SO that was pleasant. The secretary suggested we have dinner and said you'll be right Chops we will just go fast food and be out quick. The board wanted it somewhere nicer. So we went Chinese. It ended up being more expensive than we first thought and the food was really dodgy and all tasted the same. The Children's worker was playing around and threw her chopstick across the table and hit me in the eye!!! I can see which is good. This capped off a very pleasant weekend.
I forgot to mentionthe mozzies and the heat that were very fierce. So as you can see the weekend was totally tops and so much fun. I got to catch up with the lovely one and just hugged her and told her to never let me go on a board retreat again.
Till next time, just say no to Church Board retreats,
Chops