Well, it was back off to Rocklin for the weekend again. I've been getting lifts on Fridays and Mondays with a friend of Colin and Janet's, Jon, who lives a block away from them and works at UC Davis, commuting daily. He was helping cater the breakfast for a fund-raising golfing tournament the next day so we stopped off at a bulk goods store on the way back to do some shopping. Three trolleys-full of breakfast ingredients later the back of the car (a large American SUV) was loaded!
Colin and Janet had a movie "date" on the Friday evening (part of the church's married-couples' ministry) so Erin and I went off to get a DVD. We ended up using "RedBox" - a very high-tech DVD vending machine (this one was situated at a nearby service/gas station). You simply select your movie using a touch panel, swipe your credit card and a slot spits out a DVD! Once you've watched the movie, you simply return to the machine and put it back in the slot. We rented The Bee Movie, which I had seen before, but the Hobsons hadn't. That is great fun and family-friendly - well worth watching if you haven't seen it already. While we were out, Erin mentioned this place called the Cheesecake Factory. We got a delicious Lemon Raspberry Cream cheesecake. They're a little expensive on a South African credit card, but it was pay-day and a rather nice treat!
The rest of the weekend was relatively uneventful. The weather was beautiful and we swam on Sunday afternoon. That may be the last swim of the year as the pool has been getting rather cooler as we move into Fall (sic!). There are rumours that there may even be some rain before the end of this week (there hasn't been one drop since I arrived in July - the rainfall is very seasonal).
Jon, my lift to and from Davis, works odd hours, as he manages a roofing maintenance team and they start work in the middle of the night to take advantage of the cooler conditions. That means getting up really early on Monday mornings to get back to Davis. However, this week I got to lie-in as we only left at 5:30am (normally 5:15am)!
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