This year my work buddies Pam and Becky took me out to lunch for my birthday. It was super fun because it was during our lunch break and we were gone for almost two hours. Great fun. I've never taken a lunch break that long on this job. Felt sinful.
We went to a Casa Dona Maria Mexican Restaurant here in St George. It's good. We've been here together before. Our waiter was a really nice kid and took good care of us.
On Saturday, first Judy met me at Charming Charlies to buy me jewelry "for our cruise" and then took me to Benji's Thai Restaurant. I've never been there before. It was very good.
Judy likes to order appetizers....wontons, tempura shrimp, veggies...good too!
I ordered orange chicken....very delicious!
Very impressed with their birthday dessert!
In the evening, Fred and I took Dad with us to Brigham's Playhouse to see 110 in the Shade. It was really a fun musical. We've been to quite a few productions there and only once have we not enjoyed the production.
On Thursday night, we started an unofficial RS book club. It will be really good for me. It will help me find books to read and a monthly social outlet of women to hang out with. I miss that so much. This ward is SO HUGE and they only have RS activities every other month and no ward activities.
This is the first summer that choir practice was canceled for the summer. It was a mistake, but the new director made the decision. So we just started back up last week and now we are going to limp along until we get the attendance back up. Also yesterday in Sacrament meeting, they annexed out a little section of our ward and added it into another ward. One sister who will be leaving is one of my most favorite person in the world and I will miss not seeing her.
I think Fred and I are going to start going to the Empty Nest FHE when they start back up. We didn't want to go because neither of us want to ever give the lesson, but the group is so huge that you really can get away without ever having to give a lesson. I can see that the people who participate in FHE really do seem to have a social connection that we absolutely lack. Now that we've been here three years and still feel kind of out of the loop, it's time to try a little harder. We do have a ton of fun with the Hubsmiths and Bakers, but it's good to be social with a lot of people and mix it up.
