Feb 1

Thursday, February 1

Thursday morning, I got up when I heard Laurie and Janis leaving for their trip. Josh and I played paper, rock, sissor, to see who had to take out the trash. I lost (rock beating sissor) so I took the trash out to the curb. I had to look down the road to make sure I was doing it right. I was. While you have to use special green trash bags for regular garbage, you can separate your recyclables into any old plastic bag you get from the store and put those out on the curb too.

I slept in until 10:30 but Josh was up around 9. He had picked out his clothes to wear to the Rotary club meeting tonight...they were pretty wrinkled. Later on that day we popped the clothes into the dryer to get out the wrinkles even though we bought an iron at the Warehouse on Wednesday, we don't have an ironing board yet.

When I got up, we had some breakfast (doing the Honey Poppas dance...it's Josh's cereal and it's a funny dance for a funny named food). Josh made contact with Roger Openshaw at Massey and we called on the cars we are interested in. Graham agreed to look at them on Friday if we did a test drive. We didn't go into town today. I just worked on journaling and Josh played his video game and we watched some more of the Angel DVDs.

David and Bernice were picking us up for the Rotary meeting around5. Josh and I dressed to impress for the Rotary meeting even though Josh spoke to the club president the night before and he said he was trying to get people to dress more casually for the meetings. We figured for the first impression we should wear suit jackets, button down shirts, and dress pants. We both wore our NZ/USA friendship flag pins.

It was lightly raining when the Collis's came to pick us up. We headed over to the Verdict Cafe where the meeting is held. We soon realized why Lindsay had told us to dress casually. It was HOT in that place! On another note, a member had recently celebrated his 60th birthday so he brought wine and beer to drink. Josh and I were introduced around and mingled well. Dinner was really good roast beef, baby potatos, other veggies, and bread. The main presentation was about McNaught's Comet. Josh had a brief hello speech and got set up to give his powerpoint presentation on February 22. We also got set up to speak at one of the other Palmerston North clubs at an undetermined date (there are 5 Palmerston North Rotary clubs).

After the club meeting, there was a meeting for people traveling to New Plymouth the next day. We were going up there on Friday with David and Bernice and we'd be returning home Sunday with another couple, Jon and Lyndsay. When Josh and I got home, I stayed up working on the journal.