Last Thursday, we as a family went down to McKinnon to count houses. I know that sounds weird, but that is exactly what we did.
We are having a 60th anniversary service on the 30th of this month. (please pray that it will be a success) We handed out flyers today to all the people in the surrounding area. Well, we had to know how many flyers to make, so we counted houses. Charity and I walked together. We did a ton of walking and a ton of counting.
When we all finished our house counting, we went out for lunch. We stopped in at five different bakery's until we found one that had bagels. YEAH!!!! They have to be like my favorite food ever! When I had braces, I wasn't aloud to eat bagels. It was pretty sad to go 2 years without eating bagels. Here they are hard to find, they don't just sell them in any old grocery stores. We bought this bakery out of bagels (it was only about 20) Then we went to a store and bought meat, cheese, and cream cheese. It was the best lunch I have had in a long time!
Then after we had ate lunch, we went to Baskin Robins. It actually tasted like American icecream. It wasn't like what you would get at Baskin Robins in America, it was more like what you would buy in the grocery store in America. But at least it was American tasting. We all enjoyed it. Except for they didn't have cookiedough, so that was a bit disapointing, but it was still good.
Today, we had our work day at church for the 60th annaversery service that we are having at our church. We cleaned the church so it was sparkeling clean. Mr. McKeeman brought his vacuume. It was the kind that you put on your back and have a hose to vacuume with. I used it to vacuume out the sanctery. It was fun to use. Then we went flyer handing. Matt Pluke, Bethany Glover, and I all took one block. Matt would go on one side of the street, and Beth and I went on the other side. We handed out onehundred flyers. It was good. I only got three rejections, and Matt got four. I guess girls are a little less intemidating. I was a bit nerveous at first, but it wasn't so bad after a while. Hopfully we will have a good turnout next sunday.
Quote of the post:There's something soft and fluffy, and icy and cold
It's very nice to look at but much too cold to hold
Whether you're on an outing or spending time at home
You cannot eat this with your hands so put it on a cone
I love icecream...well, American icecream anyway
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Re: icecream: If you're judging the ice-cream by what you had at Dixons' Creek, don't. They buy No Name brand. My parents get a brand called Bulla because it still tastes good without costing too much. But the tendancy here is to get vanilla and then flavour it with topping.
Should you ever get to go to New Zealand, I suggest trying a flavour called "Hokey Pokey". It's caramel ice-cream with bits of hard caramel in it.
There's a scene in a Terry Prachett book where these British children are talking.
Child 1: There's a shop in America with 31 different flavours of ice-cream
Child 2: There can't be! There aren't that many flavours of ice-cream in the whole world!
Child 3: Oh, I dunno -- maybe if you combined them. You know, vanilla AND strawberry. Vanilla AND chocolate. Strawberry and chocolate. Vanilla AND strawberry AND chocolate.
But then he ran out of ice-cream flavours available to British children :).
I feel so sorry for the poor British kids! And the poor Australian kids...but I'm sure you guys will figure out where to get good ice cream, right?
Tim-I was just talking about all and every type of ice-cream that we have had here. I think I am getting used to it though. Just some vanilla with peanut-butter and Milo. That is pretty good.
Sara-thanks for your simpathy. BR is pretty good. We are probably going to end up going there a fair bit, we really enjoyed it.
Bekah-we will try to call you sometime. Summer for you is comming soon you lucky people. It is turning into winter here. :( There is nothing to look forward to in winter here though. No christmas or snow :( how sad. We will just have to go to the mountains and find snow.
We must be really spoiled to have so many different flavors of ice-cream, while there and in England they don't have very many. Maybe you could get Allen and Zach to bring some when they come! :) lol
Luv you -
Dang, no ice cream? 'Tis crazy. There's your new goal - introduce ice cream to Australia 'fore you leave!
I love the quote! I LOVE ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! And bagles. AND BEEF JERKY AND RECEES AND HERSHEYS AND CANDY APPLE SUCKERS!!!!! *sigh* all that wonderful stuff that Aussies don't HAVE! *tear* Oh well...somehow we'll survive. hopefully Allen and Zachary will save us when they come!
wow u couldn't have bagels with braces?
yeah, i tend to forget about my dependency on icecream...lol
You could just make ice cream! We made some on a whim today in Chemistry class (we had a few extra minutes at the end of the block)...
Where did that come from?
Nathan, ,we had icecream. Just not american icecream. DUa because this is australia.
Charity, I am glad that you liked to quote, It is actually a song.
Andrew-I wasnt supposed to eat bagels with braces on, because supposedly they are too hard.
Nathan-What are we supposed to make the icecream out of? If we made it out of Australian ingredence, it wouldn't taste the same.
Ellen, I like your idea.
Mary feel free at any time to mail us those suckers
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