Southern Friends Come North

This past week we were blessed with a couple of visitors from down South.  It became an incredibly busy and unusual week.  In our time honoured tradition of hosting guests we put them to work, in this case laying a verandah.

Whilst Daniel spent a couple of days building, Jessica happily attended our usual Saturday morning soccer games and an all day Carnival Sunday.  Both days she worked in the canteen and thoroughly enjoyed herself:)

It wasn’t all work however, lots of time was spent singing on Singstar.  Our Princess really enjoyed herself having fellow music lovers

and of course computer games were popular too, as was the pool table.

Jessica was marvellous with the little ones, which meant we were able to tackle a job five years overdue. Whilst Jessica babysat, the boys and I hired a car trailer and headed out to a friend’s place to dismantle our ‘woodrack’.  Alas I didn’t take the camera, you’ll have to imagine us in a paddock, pulling apart a structure, loading a trailer and being determinedly pursued by a very, very large pig. He squealed, he grunted, he had red eyes, a thick hide, and he licked and bite.

At one stage I was down at the shed using my mobile, when the pig came trotting and squealing into the yard, knowing I was in his territory, I leapt onto the work bench just in time.  I’m not sure how aggresssive he was but I wasn’t taking any chances.  I finished my call perched on the workbench, grateful that he had trotted off by the time I finished.

Yep, some people were really enjoying themselves, and some were just hanging on to their tolerance;)

One part of Carpenter’s friendship with Daniel is their shared love of singing, their voices harmonise nicely together.  Daniel indeed has an incredible voice, Australian Idol material.
A moment not captured by camera was, Daniel serving Mass for the first time (Carpenter talked him into it). I was sad his Mum missed that moment{}

Jessica very much bonded with our little ones, in particular Bass. They wanted her to stay forever, alas she had to go.  However they will be back in September:)