School day

We worked hard on our schoolwork most of the day today.  Nadine did her maths and Haiku poems, Dom wrote his book summary and struggled with fractions, Joseph fiddled with his English and SOSE and Art, and Oskar read and wrote and worked out his Australian currency.

It started off a blowy, windy day but that eased in the afternoon.  So we headed off late to Turqoise bay for some more snorkeling,  It was pretty warm in the water and nice and calm, so everyone stayed in longer than usual, and Nadine and Grant even came out again with me so I wouldn't be too scared on my own.

Nadine and I saw an octopus this time.  It was sitting on a rock and looked like a rock, except when we swam over it Nadine noticed that it sucked itself down rely small and turned white.  She pointed it out to me.  She was very nice "I always see more stuff when I'm out with you mum.".

The octopus looked very soft and squishy, like a balloon.  I didn't see it's legs.

Grant saw a big lobster with Oskar.  Joseph and Dom saw lots of starfish - orange, black and red.

On the way back to the caravan park we stopped at the big sand dune, which is just that - an enormous bare sand dune.  Oskar is a fairly determined person, and when he wants something he just sets about getting it.  The same is true for when he doesn't want something.  All the way back from the beach to the sand dune he said over and over again, "I don't want to go to the big sand dune!". he tried various styles - slow, loud, mournful, angry, crying.  He staged an Oskar protest to get us to drive right past the dune and home, because he was hungry and cold.

Well, we stopped anyway.  We found him a dry shirt of Grant's and he trod up the sand dune, arms folded across his chest, face a storm cloud.  About half way up he turned around and I thought he was heading back to sulk in the car when suddenly his face erupted into a look of glee and his arms flung wide as he jumped down the last few metres of sheer sand dune.

That was the end of the Oskar protest and he ran up and down, leaping into the air with the others.  Even Cooper climbed up and down the nearly vertical sides.  Nadine rolled down.

Back in the car I asked Oskar "how was that?"
"Alright." he said.
He doesn't like to give away too much.

Nadine has discovered a wobbly tooth.  She keeps telling us, "I have a wobbly tooth.". This is her fifth one.

Dinner was lentils, pasta and tinned veggies.  We're running out of fresh veg even though we've been to the shop a few times, because it is just so expensive here.  I'll have to get some though.  Can't live on tinned peas and carrots forever.  I think we have a tin of corned beef left to eat...don't think that will go down well...we'll see what I can do to disguise it.

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Vicki