Hols begin tomorrow. 1630 flight to Faro. I am trying to pack. Well actually I'm trying to find excuses not to pack - which is why I'm blogging. It is pretty tricky though to pack for 20 degrees C on the beach and 4 degrees in the evening when the sun goes down at 5.30.
That's not quite true. It's difficult to pack within the Easyjet 20kilos limit and have a sufficient range of clothing to be both glam and comfortable. Very important things in life clearly.
Judging from the website looks like we may have the place to ourselves as the other apartment isn't booked. Apparently the 2 acre garden has "secluded areas which guests are welcome to use". uummm, i'm sure we'll think of something.
The other thing i was thinking about was obedience. Si spoke about Grace and Obedience on Sunday. I have also been mulling over the teaching from the conference and trying to live an "extaordinary" life. It hasn't been particularly extraordinary so far. Although yesterday i did give a woman in tescos in Bournemouth a silver heart-shaped compact mirror with "beautiful daughter" written in pink across it - meant to signify that she's a child of God. She just looked gob-smacked at first then when i said it was to tell her that God loved her she just kind of scowled. Pretty extraordinary i suppose. I could be tempted to be proud of myself for being obedient were it not for the fact that it was the third time i'd felt God prompting me to give it to someone since i was given it at the conference (everyone got one). I was too chicken the first two times. The first one was a rather large black woman who was working in Mcdonalds who seemed to be in a particularly bad mood, and the other was a lady working at a petrol station in Salisbury. I wonder will anyone ever tell them God loves them? I pray they will despite my failing.
Ok do i really need 4 pairs of shoes (+slippers) 2 trousers, 3 skirts, various tops and jumpers, shorts bikini underwear pyjamas. .... i've no idea what 20 kilos feels like anyway - or looks like for that matter. i'll take my chances.
3 comments:
have a great time the both of you. glad i'm not the only one who comes up with anything rather than pack
enjoy the algarve - would be interested to know what it's like this time of year as the Olds will be retiring to Silves soon.
when mrs hope and i travel, 20 kgs breaks down to 1kg clothes/19kg shoes. is that learning obedience through packing?
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