Home day

Brisbane seems to only have two types of weather, freezing cold and baking hot. Right now it's baking hot and we are all sweating (sorry, not a pleasant image). We should be a bit more resilient to the heat coming from Cairns, but this house has only two fans that don't work very well. Daniel went out and bought a fan yesterday. He has set up office in the bedroom and complete with fan is attempting to work. Bethany and Caleb are at the hospital school. They get picked up at 8:15am every morning and taken to the hospital and are dropped back off here at 3:30pm. The taxi picks up all the kids in the accommodation here who want to go the hospital school. That amounts to two maxi taxis every morning. 

Ruben is out possum hunting. The last few nights we have seen possums in the early evening and he would like to have one as a pet. He is currently in negotiations with his parents trying to persuade them to get him a dog! Joshua is just pottering around, enjoying being out of hospital, eating a lot of icy poles (ice lollies in English) and catching up on day time TV. His next appointment is on Tuesday so he has a few days off from being poked and prodded.

Tonight is light the night in Australia. Light the Night walk is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's walk to build awareness of blood cancers. Walkers carry illuminated lanterns of different colours. White balloons are carried by survivors, blue by supporters, and gold balloons are carried by those walking in memory of a loved one they lost. It's held in over 100 different places around Australia. Seems like a nice idea, not sure whether we will go or not. Really depends on whether Joshua feels up to it.