Well here we are on day two of our trip to Daydream Island.
It has been a bit of an education.  We were picked up for the airport around 9am for a 12 noon or so flight.  We knew we would get there early but we wanted all the security checks and getting on board out the way.
That all went smoothly as did the wait for the plane.  The plane ride up was not eventful and that is a good thing.  As was the boat trip over.  Our room is a goodie though apart from the bathroom it is one big room.  That means there is no place to escape to, to write this.  Fortunately, Merril is up as well.
We found out there are frequent boat rides to Earlie Beach so we will go there today and get some provisions.  Food was our chief aim when we got here yesterday.  We found some to tide us over, but dinner last night was the cost for one that we normally get four for at the Chinese restaurant in Burpengary (we get two and it provides us with four meals).
It is a lovely place, and we have done some exploring and intend doing more.
I did get this in the email from James Clear yesterday. “Though losing is never fun, there is a certain satisfaction that can be found on the other side of losing — but only when you give your all. To lose with half effort offers no pleasure in the moment and no peace in the long run. But if your ambitions were full and your attempt was genuine, after the sting of losing wears off you'll be left with something resembling contentment. The reward is not always in winning, but in striving."
It reminds me of a song I heard called “Losing is Winning.”   The words I remember go “losing is wining if it turns you around / it all looks clearer when your close to the ground / when you know you’re lost then you can be found / and losing is wining.
Edison lost a number of times before he won by finding how light bulbs work.  I will never forget a saying attributed to him “I have learned how not to do it.” 
To me that is often how things go.  Often they do not work but eventually they do.  If I have given something all my effort and I am satisfied that I have (as they say) not left anything on the playing field, then what transpires is good for me.  I definitely like success better but losing can teach too.
I anticipate success in going and getting breakfast.  It is a part of our package and I am sure will be good. 

Well today is the day.  We set off on our great Daydream Island adventure.
Ok it is only 5 nights but we are looking forward to it.  It was an Aldi holiday.  I did not even know they did holidays.  Anyway it was a good price and our cruise earlier was a fizzer with Merril ending up in hospital just before we were to leave. 
We have upgraded the room we are staying in.  Ocean views.  We have one trip around the Islands booked.  I have gotten together some fishing gear.  We shall see if it is worth it.  It should be worth giving a go anyway in a nice environment.  Anyway I am used to sitting quietly with a fishing rod in hand.
I had decided yesterday was packing day.  I started it with a breakfast with a mate at a local food joint.  I always enjoy those times.  I thine went to the local kmart to see if they had any line with a decent breaking strain.  I found one that was 100 lbs.  That should do it.  I can dream anyway.  That has been put on the hand line.  Apparently with the bigger fish  it is not a matter of fighting them, it is just a matter of getting them before they get me by taking me under the coral.
Merril had already packed and was dealing with a last minute hick up submitting her assignment online.  She had already done it but it had disappeared. Turned out it she had used old technology that was still promoted as the way to do it.  She ended up getting it sorted.
I was getting together this and that.  I am a list person but I could not find the list I have that is as old as the hills.  So I have made another one.  I spent the morning compiling that.
We had to go out and get a couple of things and had lunch out.  Coming home I packed according to the list.  I think it is in about its 5th iteration as there were things to put on it I had over-looked.
Anyway if I do not have it now I do not have it.
I am up at the usual time and pretty well ready to go. 

I must admit we were a bit excited about what happened at our Market yesterday.
Merril and I had a time praying for lots of things and it included God prospering the market we were to hold.  We had basically just about run out of things to sell.  It had been a deliberate policy as there had been ginormous amounts for sale, to the point that at one stage we had almost too much to be stored.
The way we get stuff is to let people know we have a market where everything is $2 with a few bundles of stuff being $5.  We say that if people have anything they would like to donate we will sell it with all proceeds going to the food pantry we run.
We had asked again recently as we were light on goods.  Two people said they had stuff and left it for sale.  We ended up having three tables of things (we do not take furniture or cloths as we do not have storage room and clothes get out of hand really quick.)  We have just finished disposing of all the clothes that had been supplied.  We give that away and I must say it has proved to be a popular table.  However, this time we did not even have a table out as we had no clothes to give away. (I don’t think people listen to me as I say no clothes and they keep coming anyway. This time there were none.)
Our goal is a certain very modest amount per day.  We make that amount without fail and the average would be just higher. 
So after our pray time and putting stuff out we waited.  People just came and did not stop coming.  The pantry operator was agog at the outcome as were Merril and I and the secretary of the church.  We took more than three times as much as normal.  That had never happened before.
Ok I admit it I am one happy and thankful camper.  Merril and I head to Daydream Island this weekend, so we will not be having our usual Saturday market.  But we go knowing we took in for the pantry more than three times the usual daily taking.  The pantry is happy as are we. And so will the pantry patrons be.