Australia is having a very bad summer this year. First it wouldn't stop raining and Queensland and Victoria (two of the seven territories in Australia) flooded. This was bad but then a few weeks later Queensland was hit by a Cyclone. It was not as bad as they predicted, but they predicted the worst Cyclone in history and it wasn't. Still the devastation was quite bad.
While Queensland was getting hit by the Cyclone New South Wales (the territory where Sydney is) had the biggest heat wave in 150 years! For 5 days we ranged between 95-108 and it did not cool down at night! Each day we would get up and head somewhere with AC. When the kids couldn't sit long enough anymore (like how we had to leave the play area in the public library) we would go somewhere else. Every time I sat down somewhere with AC it would be a crazy battle to not instantly fall asleep....and I couldn't fall asleep, not with three kids who were tired but excited with all these new places we were visiting.
I do not think I will ever forget Stan pulling the car over at about 1:00pm in the afternoon during the day it was 108 F heat and rolling down the windows and asking everyone to breath in the heat and make a mental memory. Thank you Stan....it only took 30 minutes to get the car tempurature back to what it was before the memory :-)
On a sour note I think at the end of the 5 days we as a family were behaving the worst we have ever behaved before. We have never fought, or yelled, or cried, or teased etc.... the way we did after a week of no sleep at night and minimal refuge from the heat during the day.
To top it off Stan has been very disappointed to not start at Bain when he had hoped too (he missed the initial training with all the new hires). As the Australian government has not transferred his work visa sponsorship from PwC to Bain. To work you must be sponsored by a company if you are not a resident. So legally he cannot work until this comes through and since we are on a work visa we cannot leave the country until this comes through (in case we were thinking of going on a holiday with his extra free time--which we were)....So we will stay in Australia with the heat...and no AC and wait!!
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You all are in our prayers, as you go through these trials and tribulations, but thank our heavenly Father you all are okay now you have each other. We pray for all the others in Australia who have suffered or lost loved ones with the adverse weather conditions. We surround with good and happy thoughts, and of course with all our love.
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