Summer time, tennis prime

After a long, tiring bushwalk through the Royal National Park yesterday we weren’t too keen on the idea of doing a lot today. But unfortunately we did have to do a lot…of school work. Never fun on a Sunday, but we both always feel relieved once we get it all done. Today it consisted of doing a reflection from the Indigenous field trip that we went on Friday afternoon, as well as a 1000 word reflection paper with 3 literature references to John Dewey’s learning process in the form of a blog. Sounds easy I know, but putting John Dewey scholarly quotes into a reflection blog isn’t as easy as it sounds that’s for sure! We were also thrown off by the fact that the Fisher library has horrible hours on Sundays – 12 pm to 5 pm. That’s it. Apparently they don’t expect people to study much. Since we had packed our bag for the day and had come straight from Palm Sunday mass we decided to head to the 24 hour computer lab for a few hours instead. This place was a little more populated than usual, but either way we were able to find two computers next to each other and get to work on our papers. Lauren was basically all done with hers while I was only halfway through my Indigenous reflection. We both had a hard time connecting the field trip to the given topic question so we were glad when we both had something down on the word document. With our stomachs grumbling we finally entered the Fisher library and beelined it to the kitchen area to heat up our leftover spaghetti. It was delicious needless to say. With it being past 2:30 in the afternoon we knew we had to buckle down and get down to business since we only had about 2 hours left to get everything done. We kept typing and researching until we were absolutely fed up with reflecting and blogging. Slightly relieved with some of our major school work for the semester behind us we headed to Coles, walking slowly finally enjoy some sunlight. Being stuck in the library on a sunny Sunday afternoon is not what we envision as fun. However, spring break starts this coming week and with another added strike for Tuesday and Wednesday I think we’ll have plenty of time to enjoy some Sydney sunlight and nice weather. With most of the evening still ahead of us we couldn’t help but notice the empty tennis courts that were to our left as we walked down the road to Victoria Park. I think we both had the same idea at the same time – to finally play some tennis tonight. These courts are always full since they seem to be the only free ones within 10 kilometers. First we had to stop by Coles to get ingredients to make Riley’s favorite chicken stuffing casserole. After changing and grabbing our gear we headed back to the university. I don’t know about Riley but I was almost exhausted by the time we got to the courts. Since the evenings get pretty chilly I had decided to wear yoga capris to play tennis but that was a mistake seeing as it wasn’t night time yet. I was burning up within minutes. We casually hit the tennis ball back and forth realizing that we were a little out of practice, more than we care to admit. We think the last time we played was summer though, so cut us some slack. The evening was quickly turning into night and we weren’t sure how to work the tennis lights so we decided to call it for the day. Not without playing one match first though. It was a close one, but of course Riley pulled ahead and beat me, no surprise there! Playing tennis was exactly what we both needed; finally exercising a little besides just walking, as well as getting the feeling of being back home on Thursday nights playing tennis with my mom and Mr. John. With food on both of our minds we made it back to make dinner and relax for the night. Riley was absolutely in love with the way that dinner turned out - exactly how his mom makes it. I think we'll be making that more often now!