Little Coop

Here is the baby, once again, as it was at 7 weeks.

Here is baby as it was this morning, 11 weeks.

Little Coop is doing well, and is now 4.8 centimeters long. He/She has a strong heartbeat and now looks like a human. We love you Little Coop.

Sarah has been doing better the last few days. She's been able to keep her food down and eat decent quantities, as well as get enough liquids to stave off dehydration. Today's been pretty rough though, with another vomiting episode. The last sip of the mint tea was too much. She's pretty discouraged by it all, so any encouraging comments would be more than welcome. Please pray for her too.

How the F4 Saw the Ships at Wallaroo's Jetty

The Japanese Garden with the F4

Moonta Beach with the F4

I like Sarah.

Moonta with the F4

This is the train we took a tour of the Moonta mining operations on. It was pretty much the worst train I've ever seen (as if anyone can even know that). I think that's a kangaroo catcher on the front (vice a cow catcher). I think the best part about the thing was its horn. It had a real whiz-blaster.

This is some kind of mining building. It had a big engine inside that helped do mining type activities.

This is the inside of the building. It was quite tall.

This was taken on top of a huge pile of crushed ore. They would pile up all the crushed ore after getting most of the copper out of it (at this point it would contain 0.9% copper) and then run a mixture of chemicals through it that would carry out the remaining copper.

The Cornish people were pretty religious, so apparently all of the miners were required to go to church. This is a methodist church building near the mines. I think that while mandatory church may expose more people to the gospel, it certainly doesn't foster unity, and even more certainly doesn't mean that everyone who goes is a believer. Maybe their culture was well suited to it though. I might look into it.

A Little Relaxation in the Japanese Garden

The Fire

On our way back to Adelaide at about 7 pm on Saturday we saw a huge fire with an enormous cloud of smoke rising from it in the distance. The road we were on passed quite close to the fire, so we decided to investigate.

It was a gigantic pile of brush, about 80 feet long, 40 feet wide and 3 feet deep, with the flames rising 10 or 15 feet into the air. I could feel the heat from about 50 feet away.

A group of Aussies were partying away near the fire. They had their kids and their lawn chairs, and one of their cars was cranking out classic rock. It looked like a good time.

The Jetty at Wallaroo

More of Moonta

Here are the eroded remains of one of the copper processing buildings.

Here is what a toilet at a school in Moonta looked like during the mining days:

It's only eight inches or so off the floor! Crazy. It also says "THE MAXIM" inside the bowl. Pretty sweet.

One of the nice features of the train tour was signs telling you what everything used to be.

The Mines of Moonta

On Saturday Sarah and I decided to take a road trip up the base of the Yorke Peninsula, which is about 150 kilometers north of Adelaide. It was a pretty pleasant drive up through mostly farm country. We stopped in Port Wakefield for lunch and petrol. We had pasties and pies at a fabulous little place called Kiplings Bakery. We had to defend our food against a large flock of very territorial seagulls. After lunch we made our way over to a town called Moonta, which claims to be Australia's "Little Cornwall." It used to be a huge copper mining center with a large population of cornish miners, who ate many cornish pasties. Here are a few things we saw while there:

Some nice flowers. There are a lot of flowers that bloom throughout the year, but winter is drawing to a close, so there are even more than ever.

This is some of the mining equipment left over from the heyday.

Old railroad ties near a station for the mine's trams.

They had a little train tour of the above ground mine workings. It was pretty good. The guide had a barely comprehendable accent which would have had me rolling on the ground had I not been on a train.

We also went down to Moonta's jetty, which was fairly packed with local fishermen and women hauling in their exotic trophies. One young gentleman had caught himself a squid,

And a crab.

The Moonta jetty.

Home Group Outting

The Kelsey Cottage cafe in Balhannah.

My rack o' lamb!

The Mt. Lofty Botanic Gardens, with Sarah, Nandor, Annie and Mary.

Update

Well yesterday after I posted I continued to throw-up anything I ate. Poor Brian even watched me puke in the middle of dinner. So today I went to the doctor and they gave me an injection that should help the nausea in the next 6-8hrs so that hopefully I can begin to rehydrate. Obviously all the vomiting causes me to dehydrate and then that makes me even more likely to throw-up so it's a bad cycle. I hope that I don't have to go back into the doctors to get any more injections.

Also, for my family members. You do not have to create your own blog in order to leave a comment, you can just choose anonymous and then in your comment put your name at the end of your name. I do appreciate your comments and encouragements. :) Love you,

Sarah

In Anticipation

So the first trimester is almost over! I can't wait for the next two weeks to pass and see if my body starts to like itself again. :) This morning (well really afternoon) I was smiling at my success of not throwing up for the second day in a row! I thought I have overcome it, I will not throw up every morning after I brush my teeth! Oh but I was wrong, as I moved slowly into the kitchen across from the bathroom to check on my sweet potato (my new fav food) it happened...all over the kitchen rug and again and then in the laundry sink.
Sorry for those of you who were eating or just get grossed out by those sorts of things. Tomorrow is a new day and I shall see if I can overcome this force once again. So far my sweet potato is tasting pretty good. It's better than eating a bread roll or some other bread item, which has been my main diet for the last 1 1/2 mths. I am not complaining. I am rejoicing that an end to 1st trimester may bring happy feelings and an appetite!!
Well my new VISA finally came through last week and now I can work :) So I start looking for a job here in a few weeks. Hmmm...I miss you all very very much and I can't wait to come home for Christmas.
Sarah

CMS (Church Missionary Society) Winter Dinner

The New Slips

A couple angles of my sassy new footwear for those of you who appreciate such things.

Lately

Well the weather continues to get warmer, and although wet, we would no doubt whine about a drought.

I'm keen on the trampoline, it has a certain sheen when I lean close. When I bounce I get trounced of every ounce of pounce I have.

The little lady may be going crazy because she's going to have our baby.

The silent sound of our unborn offspring subtly infiltrates life's suprises.

Barbequeing Sausages for Trinity at the Bay

On Sunday afternoon our small group from church went down south of Glenelg to cook dinner for a church plant of Trinity's called Trinity at the Bay. They do an evening service, and they all eat together afterwards. We barbequed sausages for them, and I must admit that I ate three of them myself, since there were plenty of left overs.

Tim and Naomi.

The ladies handing out the goods.

A Trampoline Makes Itself at Home

I looked out our back window on Sunday morning and this is what I saw.

A trampoline! Sarah and I had been considering purchasing one for a while, and we found one on sale (20% off at Playworld in Harris Scarfe on Rundle) on Saturday. It's a good form of backyard exercise, a great place to lay in the sun and read, and a wonderful way to make yourself and your friends look foolish. It also has the rather suprising effect of making the grass underneath it grow fast and green.

Joe and Megan came over to share in the happiness brought about by bouncing.

Sarah chose to look on, keeping the baby (and her stomach) on solid ground. I'm hoping the kid will be able to jump before it can walk (but Sarah's not too keen).