Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Friendly friends

Guess what we spent the afternoon doing today? Socialising! We were very honoured to have the Williamsons spend their last afternoon on the island with us. I phoned during the morning to see if I could help with getting their luggage to the docks, or looking after the boys while they were packing or something, and it seemed that I could be useful with the extra boot and passenger space another car afforded. I went on my own to their house after lunch, and we loaded up the suitcases that needed to be handed in today. We dropped the boys and Ema off at our house, then took the stuff to the docks where we didn’t have to wait. I went straight back home, and Kyle and Genevieve went to the museum to have a quick chat with Lucy. Meanwhile, the boys had all been playing together very happily. K&G arrived about an hour later and had some tea/coffee etc. Nick had been busy with a guitar lesson but joined us when he was finished. I don’t think they really intended to stay as long as they did, leaving at 6.20, but we were so glad that they could! At about 5 pm the boys asked if they could watch a DVD, but we said no, because they would probably be leaving soon. We went outside to take a group photo of the two families (with Kyle’s camera – I don’t have the photo yet), and then the grown-ups stayed outside chatting while the boys disappeared again inside.

Meanwhile, Vincent and Vilma arrived for Lay Preachers’ training which Nick had actually called off, but they didn’t get the message. They chatted with Kyle while us ladies chatted, and Ema photographed my shoes (!). Anyway, after much chatting, we went inside when it started raining and were very surprised to see all four boys watching Open Season – already an hour into it! Aaron had put it on, remembering which buttons to push on which remotes; we couldn’t believe we had been standing around outside talking for so long! We just went right on chatting until their movie was finished, and then they headed off home. I got a quick supper together (very quick – literally, 10 minutes) of quick-cook pasta with fried onion and tinned tuna. Actually it was quite delicious – Caleb took a long time to get through his, but the rest of us enjoyed it.

Tomorrow we will skip school entirely, catching up next week when we have holiday, so that we can have a last morning together with the Ws. They are going to come here at about 9.30, then we will leave the boys here and go shopping for some things they want for the ship or whatever. Their embarkation is betw. 12 and 1, and the ship leaves at 2. It’s going to be dreadfully hard to say goodbye! I’m quite amazed at how it feels like we’ve known them for ages.

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