Sunday

Another day at home which is a good thing because it means another day out of hospital. The usual structure of weeks and weekends has given way to days in and days out of hospital. It can get a bit wearisome. We live a sort of weird half life in Brisbane. Everything revolves around Joshua’s treatment which places limitations on what we can do. We also know it’s temporary which means our introverted personalities are too lazy to make any real effort to make a life down here. Who needs ‘in the flesh friends’ when you have Skype! They don’t eat anything, can’t infect you and you can switch them off when you’ve had enough! ("Sorry, I have to go, I’m losing the connection...")

Yesterday we decided to go down to South Bank again for a change from staying at home. According to google, “South Bank is Brisbane’s premier lifestyle and cultural destination'. Clearly that’s exactly what we are aiming for! Actually we go there because we can’t all fit in the car we have borrowed and it’s an easy place for the remainder to get to with public transport. Still it is quite nice and there are lots of things to do.

When I say going down to the river, those of you who don’t know Australia may be imagining something like this:

which is what going to the river looked like when I was growing up. 

South Bank looks like this:

There is a sandy beach to play in and lot of different pools to swim in. Caleb and Ruben had a great time swimming in the lagoon and Bethany and I looked round the market stalls. It’s not so fun for Joshua as he can’t swim with his central line and we have to look for areas where there are fewer people to park him. However at least it gets him and us out of the house. Daniel took Joshua home early in the car as he had had enough, and the rest of us stayed and watched a magic show before coming home later on the bus.