This week, from Tuesday to Friday, was spent down at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast. Mum & Dad got a good deal on some rooms at the Holiday Inn. It was such a relaxing week which consisted of buffet breakfasts each morning followed by a swim in the surf, back to the air conditioned rooms for a bit of R&R, then a snooze after lunch, an afternoon stroll & then dinner. Wednesday evening there are markets along the esplanade, so Tom & I took a stroll after dinner, while Mum & Dad watched Joshua.
The Monday before we headed down the coast was a scorcher of a day with the mercury hitting 38 degrees!! In the morning we headed to Southbank to go for a swim at the beach there. Joshua really enjoyed splashing in the water. However we didn’t want to be out in the sun during the middle of the day so headed home for lunch. That afternoon the temperature just continued to climb. Tom & I were struggling to survive & poor Joshua just wasn’t coping at all & had a meltdown. I stripped him down to just his nappy & sat in front of the fan sponging him with a wet cloth, but still he just cried. It was a struggle to get him to take enough fluids as he just didn’t want to suck at all. In hindsight we probably should have gone to a shopping centre or somewhere & just sat in air con. Thankfully as the sun went down & the temperature eased off a little (it was still 30 degrees at 7pm!) he settled down.
These scorching days are disgusting. Air con is really the only way to go and I have no idea how we all survived growing up without it.
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