Waterparks and Ambulances

Today we went to the water park.  Well yesterday anyway but I am blogging in the early morning so it is close enough!  We went to the water park and the water was freezing!  OK the water wasn't freezing, it was heated but it wasn't heated much!  The water was 27 C/80 F.  That is way too cold for me.  The boys all had a blast because they had turned on the water slide.  We put them all into wetsuits so they would last longer and the frantic sliding, running around and climbing stairs helped to keep them warm as well!

 There are a bunch of other water play things as well.  Most of them are 'too young' for the boys now that they are confident swimmers, but Levi and Luke played a really fun game of hide and seek.  Well fun for them!  It is a little hard to be the one who was watching them and they kept disappearing! 

The mood of the day changed in a heartbeat though.  Natey had a big allergic reaction to something.  Who knows what and he went red and welty and then progressed fairly quickly to lethargy and disorientation.  This was followed fairly quickly by unrelenting vomiting.  It was well above our level of comfort, so we called an ambulance.  I took Luke for the rest of the day and Cheryl took Nate to hospital.  It is at moments like that I recall what is really beautiful about a Public Health system!  No one ever asked if he had insurance and he went straight to a hospital! 

Nate did fine in hospital and they kept him long enough to make sure he didn't have a second response.  He was very tired when I saw him in the afternoon but I think that a good long sleep will restore him.  Now all we have to worry about is the random allergy.  The most likely suspect at the moment though is an allergy to the Cold.  He was freezing but nothing else was really new.  We shall see.  That is in the allergist's hands now anyway!

Today Levi and I are going with Zac and Alex to play on the bike track.  I am hoping to get some great 'jumping' photos but regularly, my mind thinks that I am a better photographer than my shutter finger does!