Day 274: Errands, friends old and new, and swim class
In researching ways to try and help Zoe sleep for longer, I learned that there's basically two triggers for waking up in the morning: light and heat. Because Queenslanders hate daylight saving, the sun gets up ridiculously early in summer. Because Queensland is hot, it also gets very hot pretty early. Our bedrooms are on the eastern side of the apartment to boot.
I already have nice blackout curtains, and I had pelmets installed last summer to try and reduce the light leakage around the curtains. I also had reflective window film put on our bedroom windows last summer in an effort to reduce the morning heat when the sun rose, but I don't think it's made a massive difference to a closed up bedroom. I think Zoe woke up at about 5:40am this morning. I'm not sure what the room temperature was, because the Twine in her room decided not to log it this morning. Air conditioning is the next thing to try.
After breakfast, we ran a few errands, culminating at a trip to the carwash for babyccino. After that, we headed over to Toowong to pick up Geneal, who was a friend of my biological mother that I've kept in loose contact since I've been an adult. We went over to the Toowong Bowls Club for lunch, and had a nice catch up.
The Toowong Bowls Club has a rather disturbing line on the wall showing the height of the 2011 floods. It's probably taller than my raised arm from the ground level of the building.
After lunch, and dropping Geneal home, we headed over for a play date at the home of Chloe, who will be starting Prep next year at Zoe's school. I met Chloe's Mum, Kelley, at the P&C meeting I went to earlier in the year, and then proceeded to continue to bump into her at numerous school-related things ever since. She's been a good person to know, having an older daughter at the school as well, and has given me lots of advice.
Zoe and Chloe got along really well, and Chloe seems like a nice kid. After the play date, we walked to school to collect Chloe's older sister, and then to swim class. We were early, but Zoe was happy to hang out.
I am just so loving the vibe I'm getting about the school, and really loving the school community itself. I'm really looking forward to the next seven years here.
After swim class, we walked back to Chloe's house to retrieve the car, and say goodbye to Chloe, and headed home. It was another nice full, but not too full day.