Had a pretty crap day actually 🙁
There have been high points; Davies has finally clicked with his counting, we had a nice game of snakes and ladders together, he played Zoombinis for a while and has mastered the Mountain Rescue one, done a fair bit of reading to them and so on.
Also been some very low points – me sending everyone to their rooms (self included) having yelled that this was not working for any of us, they were going to school / nursery / childcare whatever and I was going back out to work probably topping the list of them.
Was planning to blog more but I am now sitting slumped infront of the news. My parents rang earlier to say they are enjoying the trip but the poverty everywhere is quite disturbing. There has been a massive earthquake in the same area as the Boxing Day one (what is it with Earthquakes and Bank Holidays then?) which although seemingly unlikely to cause a tsunami will judging by the news create panic and mayhem throughout Thailand and surrounding areas. It’s about 1am there now, they were planning an early night as they are supposed to be getting up at 5am to go on a planned boat trip. Not sure whether their hotel will have been evacuated, they will have felt some of the quake and what level of information or confusion or panic they will be in – or indeed whether they are simply blissfully asleep and ignorant of the whole thing…. obviously will feel very on edge until I manage to speak to them again 🙁
edited to add – I managed to ring them (wonderful thing the internet for getting information like phone numbers) and woke them up (2am their time). They were, as predicted blissfully unaware of anything happening but as I was sat watching the news in the same city they are in with people running around in mayhem I was glad to have spoken to them. I left them with their TV on watching Sky news and promising to ring tomorrow and stay in contact generally. Have rung my very relieved brother too so can rest easy on that count at least…
eeeep…… hugs.
Comment by Merry — 28 March 2005 @ 8:04 pm
Glad you parents are well and OK Nic 🙂
Comment by Karen b — 30 March 2005 @ 9:43 pm