Baptism...Award...Jedi...Lost...Replaced

One of my goals this year was to get my back strong enough so I could paddle a wave ski. It still isn’t brilliant but I felt it was good enough to possibly ride a wave ski in the surf. So last Saturday I purchased a wave ski. Unfortunately Lani was not well and I had to take Jasmine to a birthday party, so a venture into the surf was not on but I had an hour or so to kill so I took it for a paddle on the Broadwater. I paddled out to the Seaway, caught a few very small waves at Wavebreak island and then rushed back to pick up Jazz. I would have done 2 to 3 kms of paddling. On Sunday I was going to baptise the wave ski in the surf but my back was too sore from all the paddling on Saturday! Good news is that I have recovered and hopefully I will be in the surf tomorrow.

Jasmine was awarded Lower School Student of the Week this week for being such a great listener and busy worker.

James is going through a bit of a Star Wars phase at the moment. It kind of started after we submitted a Star Wars video James and I did a few years ago to Aust Funniest Home Video Show. The competition was to play out your favourite movie scene and we did the “I am your father” scene. We didn’t win anything. James then started going around the house making all kinds of sound effect noises while swinging a plastic light saber around pretending to be a Jedi master. This week James bought himself the Lego Star Wars PS2 game which he describes as “the best game ever” and “cool as”.

Lani is still busy working on her Teacher Support course. She chased up on what was going on with her submitted assignments today and they reckon they haven’t received anything yet! Not a particularly good start. Everything has to go via snail mail and communication by the telephone, which is a tad stupid and behind the times in my view. It is costly and slow.

We have also received further news from the insurance company and it appears that we are going to get our pergola roof replaced.