Meanwhile in this blog entry I will tell you a
little about activities since our North American trip – Singapore, Cairns and
Bathurst.
In response to some requests to know what I am
planning to do, between now and the next blog entry:
- Barbara and I are driving next weekend to the Hunter Valley with Lesley and Steve who have arranged this weekend to begin celebrating Barbara’s 60th birthday
- then Barbara and I are driving on to stay at Golden Beach on the Sunshine Coast Queensland for eleven days
- most of my work will be in Sydney but I will be working in Perth in the last week of August
- the first weekend in September our family celebrates Barbara’s 60th, which she has arranged at the old Quarantine Centre, North Head, Sydney
- second week of September I will be staying with Matthew and Jacob on the Gold Coast while their parents John and Lynne have a holiday and Barbara will be holidaying in Cairns with our friend Pat, jointly celebrating their 60ths!
I was home less than two weeks from the US
when I travelled to Singapore to facilitate a three-day seminar, which was well
received. I arrived home Thursday
morning 12 July and Friday afternoon 13 July, family and I flew to
Cairns where most of the family spent a week together. These photos show some of the highlights
of a holiday we all greatly enjoyed.
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| At water filled volcanic plug hole, Atherton Table Lands |
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| Feeding rock wallabies, Granite Gorge, Atherton Tablelands |
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| Dinner at Blue Moon Restaurant, Trinity Beach, the Cairns suburb in which we stayed |
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| A Hey-Cunningham landing |
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| Celebrating their tandem parachute skydives with Coke |
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| Watching crocodile on our Daintree River cruise |
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| Accessing coconuts on Cape Tribulation Beach in the Daintree National Park |
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| Aboard the Seastar at the beginning of our day trip to the outer Barrier Reef |
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| We saw whales once on the way out and thrice on the return trip |
This last weekend, Christmas in July was celebrated in Bathurst. We had a fantastic time enjoying superb cooking and learning about our friends' trip with other members of their Church to a sister church in Tonga.
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| Displaying our Kris Kringle presents after Christmas dinner |
How am I feeling – well – with reducing chemo side affects. It seems that a level of numbness will permanently remain in my fingers and toes. It is strange having numbness and having feeling together. I am very grateful for the continuing dormancy of the cancer. I think about this from time to time but do not dwell on it. I have no idea how long it will continue but hope the cancer remains dormant for a long time. Meanwhile, I enjoy each day I live. I am enjoying a great mix of rewarding work, time away, time at home. I have deliberately planned to be in warmer places for about half of the Sydney winter. It has been great to be warmer.
You might think we are too busy but, no, please
contact us if you would like to arrange some time together.
