It was a beautiful day today, hot as you would expect this time of year to be but otherwise it was just pristine. Luke and Nate were coming over to play in the creek again and we had planned a fire and a picnic creek side. Pete, Cheryl and I took turns dragging kids in boats through rapids and playing guard down stream. Really with the causeway almost dry, the creek is pretty safe. In fact, at one point we were all sitting there talking about how in our childhoods, we would have been unsupervised down in that creek at that age and most of the time, that was just fine!
The kids played in the creek for about four hours and at no time did they require us to provide them with ideas. We provided food, fluid and surreptitiously safety but they didn't require us to think of things to do. They love running water. They love fire. They love each other and rarely fight. Really in their little books of life, this was a really good chapter.
One of the games that they thought up was to ride their bikes full tilt across the shallow water, shrieking with laughter the whole time. They were so excited!
Then about five this afternoon, it rained hard. I didn't pay too much attention because it stopped after about 20 minutes. By six tonight, the causeway was above the one meter measure. It means that in 45 minutes, it became completely impassable! If you look at the photo below which is Levi sometime this afternoon, he is riding past the marker. So by tonight, the water level was about level with his head on the bike. My chances of catching the flight to Townsville at the crack of dawn tomorrow are slim to none at this point! I am thinking that I will likely get there but not before afternoon at this rate.
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