A Break From The Sizzling Summer Temperatures

Though yesterday (Monday) had a top temperature of the low 30's, it was a welcome change from the high humidity and oppressive conditions of the previous few days.  The air-con is back in hibernation but the ceiling fans continue to get a workout.

Yesterday was partly cloudy where as today is all over cloud cover.  There is a strong north easterly blowing cooling the place off marvelously.

With so much oppressive humidity there has been the mandatory heavy thunderstorm which has cleared the atmosphere.  The only problem was the thunderstorm came through at around midnight last night putting on a tremendous light show with flashes of lightning going on for around an hour.

The were some enormous claps of thunder as well, one which seemed to sound in the street just out front!  That was enough for Emily, she sought the safety of mum and dad's bed until the storm subsided.  We received around an inch of rain which was sorely needed after the recent hot weather.

As you can see from the photo above, kids sleeping conditions are a little crowded but they seem to get enough sleep OK. Andrew likes the couch which just so happens to be directly below the ceiling fan!  Emily is more than happy with the blow up mattress on the floor.

They only need sheets at this time of year which are folded after they wake making tidying up quite straight forward.

Yesterday they drove to Noosa (around 60k's north) then worked their way slowly back stopping at Coolum and Mooloolaba for a swim!

Today is their last full day with us.  The fly home tomorrow.  I suspect the beach is the planned destination for today but right now it is quite overcast.  It certainly isn't cool!

There is loads of sport on TV right now.  The coverage of the tennis is great with 2 separate channels covering the tournament.  One channel focuses on the one sided matches on Centre Court with all the highly ranked players playing against much lower ranked players.  The second channel focuses on other close matches.  Then there are live cricket matches going on as well.

The modem/router went back to the place where it was bought from for replacement yesterday.  I may have to wait some time (like several weeks) until a replacement arrives.  I plan to totally reset the modem/router I am currently using to see if I can get it to 'hold' network settings.