Tuesday - Thursday, June 25-27- visit from Sean and Murdocks

Tuesday we went downtown again to pick up the books we had engraved.  Then we came back and began collecting bids on the Chatsworth Youth Centre to see if we could get the budget figures for the sound and lighting guy for the concert, as well as draping the place and carpet runners, chairs and chair covers. I sent out at least 15 emails to those type of places. I got a bid back from Storm productions that I thought was pretty reasonable. The others responded that they would get back to us. Our biggest expense is still the two pianos. Draping is also expensive, though we one place that was a lot cheaper than the first bid.

Wednesday was a continuation of Tuesday, but we also got a call from the area office that Murdocks and their boss, Sean Donnelly were coming to Durban for the Family History Fair and a meeting with us about David Glen Hatch, Helping Hands and Elder Bednar's visit.The plan was to pick them up from the airport on Friday. Murdocks wanted to stay with us in the spare room and Sean offered to sleep on the downstairs sofa. We have two large sofas, so it was okay, just unexpected.

That meant that we spent Thursday shopping for extra towels, pillows, blankets and groceries. Luckily we found an inexpensive store (like Walmart) to get the home goods. We brought everything home and then started cleaning, making beds and putting groceries away. It's nice having all this space, but having to clean three bathrooms and mop tile floors is a lot of work! Then when we finished cleaning, we were back at the computers gathering more bids and trying to put together a budget for the concert at the Youth Centre and set up a public affairs dinner after the family history fair, which means find a place, make a reservation and then contact all the people on the council and see if we can get them all to come. I also volunteered for us senior couples to bring cookies (They call them biscuits here) and had to coordinate gathering them all up to take to the history fair on Saturday. Lots to do and tomorrow will be even busier!