even in the heatwave, we still went to WOMAD from 11am to 11pm, stayed in the shade at each performance stage, drank heaps of iced water and went in the de-mister tent quite a bit! Bilby had a great time, bopped like crazy to a totally going off john butler trio, and loved the brazilian samba music. She didn't sleep ONCE, made friends with everyone we camped near, charmed them all! Her way of making friends is to gingerly walk up to people with water bottles and try to take them!!! this would make the people laugh and then the silly faces etc, it was on for young and old. One lady shrugged at bilby, and so for the rest of the day, bilby kept shrugging at people and getting laughs for that. a new trick for her. So we managed to keep bilby unburnt and hydrated in 39 degree heat, and used the cloth nappies fine - our first experiment of being away from home for longer than a few hours. If it was "buy your ticket on the day" type thing, we would never have gone, but to get a cheaper price, we booked the tickets ages ago.
The kids zone looked really good too, i didn't think there would be anything for her age group, but we walked thru, and the Amazing Drumming Monkeys were putting on a show (google them to find out what i mean, they have a website). Didn't look thru the amazing rainbow markets, the environmental stalls, the visual arts area, the ethical global village, sustainable living area etc - like i would pre-bilby - but still had a great time. It really was what dh and i needed - we so rarely go out together for fun like that.
apparently, a news crew took footage of us 3 (amongst the other 75,000 people there) in the de-misting tent, cooling off, and it was on a news broadcast, dunno which channel, but we weren't home to see it anyway!
bilby is still not sleeping, so the only difference was, she didn't sleep at WOMAD, adn we still didn't get any sleep, at WOMAD. gotta laff. i secretly hoped all that walking around and bopping would make her very tired!!! but no!
we are making slow progress increasing the amount of foods she will eat, but still no soft pieces, only mashed or pureed. hmmm.
Taralee - i think blue is lovely on either gender, but you could always dye blue, purple, you get lovely shades of lavendar and violet, depending how blue the original item was (and that it's 100% cotton to start with).
YK how some preg. women scrub floors at the end? well i went on a DYE CLOTHES PURPLE frenzy instead!
Kimmy? how are you travelling hon?
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