Hot as Hell.

Have I written about the heat?

About the heat inside our steel box?

About the heat inside our dark blue steel box?

Struggling would be an understatement. Lately we've been checking the weather with tentative fingertips, not wanting to hit 'enter' and have a week of 30+ appear on the screen in front of us.

Now one might [rightly] think what's your problem, just jump into the water... and one would be right on the money, and we do, but our issue is not during the day -

It's in the still of the night.

Most evenings, it is a mill pond. There is not a breath of wind.

The other night was so stinking hot, and it went something like this:

10.00pm - kids and Xave finally fall asleep on deck
10.30pm - humidity soaks us through
10.31pm - I wake xave & we move kids into their cabin
12.00am - cooks cries out that she's hot
2.00am - cooks comes into our cabin to cuddle
2.01am - is she fricking kidding me?
2.10am - cooks and I go into the saloon
2.14am - I lie down on the couch
2.14am - she lies down on the other couch
2.15am - she lies down on the wooden floor
2.16am - she shuffles all over the floor for a bit
2.17am - I think I should have wrapped her in a mop outfit
2.18am - she comes to a stop on the floor in the companionway
2.20am - she is asleep
3.30am - I'm still on the couch, waiting for sleep
3.32am - roo calls out in his sleep that he's hot
3.33am - I start hating Xave that he is snoringly asleep
3.34am - I toy with the idea of waking him up
3.35am - roo stays asleep
3.36am - I don't wake Xave coz that would be truly wrong
3.37am - I admit to myself that I didn't wake up Xave b/c Roo stayed asleep not because it would have been wrong
4.00am - I turn on the light and start reading 'The Slap' (thanks M.C)
6.45am - Roo wakes for the day

12.00pm - We all drive west for 3 hours to the Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains where we stay for 2 days.

The caves were so so so cool and lovely and the chrystals were stunningly beautiful.