Wednesday

Today was a quiet day off for little boys and Emma. They visited the supermarket, the market, found some thongs for Noah, and spent the rest of the day swimming, playing lego and watching movies. Noah and Tane noted how stinky the fish at the market was, the limping cat by the pool and all the cane toads hopping around. Emma caught up on some project administration and homework correcting.

The workers reported it as being "bloody hot" today. Lots of construction work completed -  grinding, drilling and more drilling! Painting commenced. Sharing of resources was a challenge  - only 2 drills, 1 grinder, 2 "tookies" (hammers) and other tools, it was sometimes hard to keep track of where all of the tools were.

Byron and Riley walked to a cane field and Riley introduced Byron to sugar cane chewing. A man with a cane knife prepared it for Byron who was pretty impressed. This was followed by volleyball with some young people - its incredible how much fun can be had with laughter even when not using a lot of words. The girls practiced making God's eye wool mandalas as a craft activity to demonstrate to the class tomorrow and gots a good chunk of homework done.

We had a debrief over pancakes, followed by dinner and a movie night, complete with popcorn, while the adults enjoyed a few G&T's outdoors. The kids felt it was a really long day - perhaps reflective of the late night beforehand!