Genealogy conference

Friday started off early for Dee, as she had a 9:30am dentist appointment to get a cavity filled, so she left for the bus soon after 8am. After Thursday's late night, we were both pretty tired, though my being tired was more because of my cold.  Some of you might wonder why she or I don't drive her to the dentist. The answer is two-fold: 1) she quite likes the adventure of taking the bus and being out with Italians, and 2) at rush hour in particular it is faster and easier, and probably cheaper, than driving in downtown, especially when you factor in the difficulty of parking.

After the dentist, she went straight to the Institute on the bus/subway to finish cooking the food she had prepared the day before. In the evening, the a local university started hosting a genealogy conference, and of course she had to go there. Thus, she prepared the Sloppy Joes ahead of time and left it in the crock pot for me to heat up at the right time.  She also cooked two carrot cakes for a GANS event Sunday afternoon at Ugo's house. 

I drove downtown alone at the regular time, having taken a brief nap right beforehand. My cold is progressing: it's not terrible, but my nose is running, my throat is sore, and my energy is low. I had planned to go with Dee on Saturday to the second/last day of the conference, but with my cold it was easy to decide to nix that. Having some time to rest at home will be nice.

Dee left for the conference about 3pm, while I stayed and held my Seminary class. We had good turnout again. I did my short presentation on chiasmus in the Book of Mormon, followed by some doctrinal mastery bingo, which was won by Joshua Perego in record time. Teaching always gives me adrenaline, so I felt ok during the class, but afterwards I crashed on the couch for a while.

 

Playing Wii after Seminary

Margie, our non-member girl from Honduras, helped my wife out by doing final prep for the dinner after Institute class. She is wonderful and always willing to pitch in. As usual, my class started small and ended up almost full, on our nice new padded chairs. We covered Mormon 7-9 and Ether 1-5, with some good discussion on different points. Again, adrenaline kicked in to help me make it through the evening, but after class and cleaning up I was ready to go home and rest. 

 

It was Adrian's final Institute class before leaving on his mission, so we took a photo together:

Dee's conference session ended after 9pm, so she took the subway all the way from near the Vatican to the Jonio stop not far from our apartment. I had just arrived home and unloaded the car, then drove down to pick her up. It was a very nice day, but tiring for us.