Springtime

When you are in Australia for 5 months you just expect some nice weather, go up in the morning feeling the sun heating up your house, walking to school with the kids in shorts and then head of to the beach 🙂 Well, it is not like that, we have a spring of rain, and what the Aussies call cold weather which is 16-19 C, and yes it is cold.

The most awkward thing with summer season and cold the weather are the rules of school uniforms. It is summer so the  boys should be in shorts and the girls preferably in a skirt. So what do you do when the kids says it is too cold for summer clothes? Well you bend a rule or two and you mix in some of the winter uniform which is stockings and long trousers.

As Anna works full time but has the opportunity to work from home we can travel for weekends and so we do: Last weekend was up on the Sunshine coast and it really showed why it is named as it is. Beautiful weather and a lovely little resort called the Endless Summer Resort. The routine of dressing in school uniform was changed for a morning swim in the pool and the routine of walking to school in the rain was changed to walk to the beach after getting putting on a protective layer of sunscreen.

The best part of the weekend? No not the weather it will soon be forgotten! It was when Joel took of for his first 10 m swim, all smiling afterwards saying that he can swim longer than that. So very soon I will be the worst swimmer in the family as the others speed off in a more or less perfect freestyle swim leaving me behind looking like I am struggling to keep afloat – which is exactly what it is.