The Lewis clan woke this morning, feeling a little sore and even more red than yesterday. ABC news proudly presented the Sydney High temperatures today and so we decided that today needed to be spent indoors. We watched the Australian news reports on the severe weather of the UK. We watched the footage of UK adrenaline junkies water skiing behind 4x4s on country lanes in Surrey, while we sat in a line in front of the TV, gently massaging after-sun lotion onto our red throbbing shoulders! The scene reminded me a little of Attenborough episodes where apes groom each other!
To be fair, I was the least affected. I had remembered to put suncream on my face and arms and chest. However, I had missed a tiny strip between exposed and non exposed shoulder and the back of my neck. Since my hair was tied up, my neck was also exposed. Yesterday, I had worn my Nana Lana's locket, which has a reasonably chunky chain. Thus the back of my neck is bright red with a pure white line in the middle of it. Erin spent a significant proportion of today walking behind me and intermittently cracking up laughing at the white line separating the top and bottom of my neck.
Nathan has perhaps suffered the most.
Frightening image alert! In his birthday suit, the way mother nature intended, he has a 'white t-shirt'; his head, face, neck and arms are a lovely rosy glow. His neck has even swelled slightly.
We decided that today, we may as well sort out the girls with a phone and purchase a sat nav for our lovely new car so we drove into Castle Hill ( which is where we think we may settle eventually) and went to Castle Tower; a shopping centre similar to Westfield. Australia may have the weather and the beaches, happier people and nice jobs..... But it's not a patch on Britain for mobile phone packages. Lets just say, it's a good job that our wages are higher! Anyway, enough moaning. We discovered that the girls couldn't use their old phones so we had to get new phones for each of them. Belated Christmas presents! They both chose a Samsung Galaxy Express 4G. We decided to buy them outright and go with a prepaid SIM card rather than get tied into 24 month contracts. The phones are unlocked so we can go with any network. I think we'll experiment and see what suits us best. For those of you who know us well, we've been bitten twice by tied in contracts!!
Anyway, the girls are happy now. Even Nathan got a phone - a Samsung Galaxy Y! Watch this space...I'll be impressed if he actually uses it. Those of you who know Nathan, know exactly what I am talking about! The Aussies do not like it when we try to use my phone as a contact on paperwork so we'll use Nathan's for all business and paperwork reasons.
Well, apart from spending an extortionate amount of money, there is nothing much else to report today. So I'll sign off. Talk soon and lots of love.
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