LiAM woke early, feeling cold and unwell.
He and I got up as neither of us were likely to go back to sleep, and
discovered a thick layer of ice over everything outside. We’d left one
waterbottle on the table and the water in that was not frozen solid, but was
mainly ice. We sat in the car as it was the warmest spot and played on the iPad
until the others got up a couple of hours later. By now the sun was up and the
ice was starting to melt, it wasn’t too bad to stand in the sunshine.
We took our time over breakfast and decided
not to try to see or do anything today. Kimba is the mid-point between Sydney
and Perth, and has a few interesting things around town to check out, and it’s
not far from here to the National Park with lots of interesting rock formations
– we decided a rest day was way more important than seeing more things for the
sake of it (there was nothing here we had been looking forward to or even knew
anything about before we arrived).
Caitlin checked out the coin-operated
showers and came back happy and clean. We read some Harry Potter and played on
the iPad, then Tony and Caitlin rode their bikes into town to get food for
dinner and a pump attachment to blow up the balls we’d bought with us. Millie,
LiAM and I played cards until they got back.
With the balls pumped up (including a new
football that they’d also bought) we went over to the tennis/netball/basketball
courts. We were trying to figure out how to play netball with 5 people (Caitlin
really wanted to play netball) when Millie fell and hurt her knee and elbow and
didn’t want to play anymore. She was happy to lie in the sun and watch us, so
we played a very tricky and exhausting version of 2-a-side netball. Lots of fun
though. Once everyone was too knackered to play anymore we had a bit of a play
in the playground, then Tony and the kids went out on to the football oval to kick
the football around, and I found a powerpoint in the tennis pavilion to charge
my computer and catch up on days worth of blogging, email, banking etc. It was
warm in the sun and still a bit cool in the shade, a lovely day though to just
enjoy and take our time over things.
We had a late lunch and hung around the
tent and playground and tennis courts, a very relaxing afternoon. LiAM and I
had showers (the water here is full of chlorine, it felt like I was showering
in a hot swimming pool) and we played more iPad and read more Harry Potter then
had hotdogs for dinner. I talked to a friend on the phone for a while and the
kids played in the playground, then we got ready for bed. It was a cold evening
but not as cold as the previous few nights. We still did hot water bottles and
rugged up, and as LiAM had been feeling unwell all day he slept in my bed with
Millie and I, Caitlin slept on Millie’s bed and Tony slept in LiAM’s. It took
us a while to rearrange all the blankets again but eventually we were all ready
and in bed for a bit more of Inheritance. Tony did the dishes then came in and
read more of the Harry Potter book – we’re all trying to read it as fast as
possible so we can talk about it, and I’m trying to read it aloud so that
everyone can keep up – so we’re all up to different stages and some bits have
been read by everyone and we’re getting to know the story really well.
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