Back to the grind – Paul is back to work today and I’m flying solo with the kids. We had a really busy weekend with Lucy’s birthday, as well as Jessie’s birthday (we ALL loved her bouncy castle) and far too much bad food and good drinks. The 6am alarm was (as it is on a monday morning esp one after not having an alarm for 3 weeks…) a fright..but this marks the start of a whole new year. Back to it.
I postponed all my new year’s resolutions til Paul had gone back to work. Now I guess it’s time to face reality.
We are safe home now but not until we had one last disaster in Hahei.
The boys were swimming beyond the surf, goggles on, diving for stones and shells and any other exciting creatures they could find. I was on the beach with Abby & Paul when I hear screaming. Not just screaming but help-me-I’m-dying-here screaming. From 2 boys. Split second reaction to reliase they are mine.
I look to see both boys holding their arms in the air and the screams are bone chilling. It took me another split second to realise (as I am running to the water) Blue Bottles.
(This pic taken on the beach later that night – the one that was washed up after jacob was stung was easy 3x this size).
Jacob had been stung across the hand with a blue bottle. Braden had tried to help by picking the embedded tentacles off his hands. Which resulted in him getting stung too.
Half the beach gathered around the screaming boys – half in curiosity – half with well meaning advice. It all resulted in a scene that ended with Jacob going into shock, large welts forming and his hand/arm swellng, and as a result, an ambulance attending. Braden was fine after the pain subsided a little. And actually by the time the ambulance got there Jacob was pretty Ok. The ambulance guys took him for a ride around the block anyway, gave him (and 3 other kids that were at the bach!) soft toys and Jacob’s favourite? they blew a surgical glove into a balloon for him!
4 days later you can still see the welts where the tentacles were embedded into his hands. (Hard to see here but very visable IRL). BTW in other parts of the world, these are known as Portugese man o war.
So that was the end to our holiday. We are glad to be back and hope it doesn’t stop the kids from loving Hahei, because it is one of our most fav places on earth.
Prima DT calls must be going out soon although I think they got like kabillions of entries. Good luck everyone!
I’ll leave you with another of the layouts I created for the latest Tarisota Kit – clearly yours. The gallery goes up on the 8th of every month and this month I celebrate 12 months with Tarisota.
I’m in love with the red/light blue combo right now -add brown and I’m in my happy place. You’ll be bound to see me play with this combo lots of the next month or two..
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