Seminary/Institute Graduation (including Jenny Phillips fireside) 2010

On Thursday evening our family attended the combined Seminary/Institute graduation ceremony for 2010 which included a fireside performance by well known LDS artist, Jenny Phillips. Jenny and her husband, Dan, flew from Utah to spend just 4 days in Tasmania, leaving their young family behind on Thanksgiving weekend. Everybody who attended appreciated Jenny sharing her amazing talent with us!

We've attended many graduation ceremonies over the years and this year it was Rachael's turn to graduate, after 4 years of regular attendance at Institute (a 4 year course of scripture/church history study for young adults).
I really enjoyed the talks given by Jordan Christie and Sam Prebble and it was great to see so many of our youth receiving certificates for completion of this year's study.



It was wonderful to see our Stake Young Women's choir join with Jenny to sing one of her beautiful songs called "Virtue". After the formal part of the evening graduates and their parents joined together for the "cutting of the cake". It was delicious, especially the chocolate around the edge!

Saturday at Symmons Plains

Yes, it was time for me to get my yearly dose of burning rubber, revving engines and high speed action when I headed out to Symmons Plains on Saturday 13th November to see the V8 Supercars in action! Its always a great day out. There were plenty of great viewing spots on "the hill", the weather was kind to us (too kind as I got my first sunburn of the summer season) and I got the chance to experiment with my camera on dozens of fast-moving subjects! Besides the supercars there were also a fantastic range of older touring cars on show, Australian superbikes, stunt utes and young guys doing crazy stunts on their motorbikes.