too hot to trot

Nothing too exciting about the weekend, just trying to stay cool. It's been really hot here the last several days and everyone tries to stay in doors as much as possible. Saturday was a relaxing day for me, I met my friend Anita at a beach called Cottesloe; we went running and swimming and then had breakfast at a nice cafe right on the beach. Then I came home and ran some errands with Amy, and we spent the rest of the day watching movies: In Her Shoes and Cinderella Man . Great movies. Sunday was a combined service with the Perth church, very encouraging, except I was the only girl leading the girl's parts for a couple new songs we decided to try and let's just say that made for an interesting service. After church, we traveled down to Rockingham for a good-bye bbq for our friend Ilona, who's going to Ireland. Then we all jumped in the water to cool down, because it was soo hot! Luckily there was a beach close by. Sunday night, Kim had some of us over to his house for some chinese and to take advantage of his pool, again, activities that are surrounded by water. Monday was a public holiday here(don't ask me which one, I have no idea), so of course everyone had the day off. I did absolutely NOTHING! It was wonderful, I'm reading Memoirs of a Geisha at the moment, and I seriously can not put it down, it's fantastic. I spent a large portion of the day reading, which is rare for me. And monday night was our girl's Bible study; we concluded our study on "A Beautiful Offering". Did anyone catch the oscars? I completely forgot they were on.

Today I spent some time at the gym, and then went straight to meet Josh for coffee. We spent the majority of the morning planning for the Lipscomb visit in July and ironing out a lot of prep work we need to start considering for the future months. It was great to get so much accomplished. And tonight me, Hayley and Cath will begin our Perspectives Missions class at the local theological college, so that is exciting.