The Wee Hour Walkabout

Walkabout - Australian for going on a walking trip.

We're nothing if not crazy.

Us Cavanaghs, we know how to have a good time.

But I think this time the rain made us a bit giddy. You see, we can count on one hand the number of times we've seen rain here.

That was up until a couple of weeks ago. A couple of weeks ago, everything got wild. It started to rain. We've had rain off-and-on for the past two weeks. It's so refreshing.

So our Todd River (the one that runs through the city) is normally dry. As is shown here with this photo of Cole. He's standing in the middle of a dry Todd River.


Please ignore the fact that he looks a bit like a special needs child. Meaning no offense of course. I think it has something to do with the position of his legs.

But I digress.

So, low and behold, we receive a call from our neighbor Friday night. The Todd River is flowing...yes, flowing. And the bridges are closed.

Well, you must understand. People here ask you all the time "have you seen the river flow". And we have to say no. It's obviously the "thing" here to see the river flow. There is even a saying that if you see the river flow 3 times, you're considered a local and will be here for good. Or some such.

As if.

Meaning no offense of course. I mean it my Australian friends. I love your country. But I love mine more. And I'm just a bit homesick.

But I digress.

So when Jason came to bed at 2:00 Friday night/Sat morn, we got to talking about how it stunk that it was the middle of the night and we weren't getting to see the Todd River flow.

Then it hit us...we could go now!!

So this is my family at 2:30 am after being dragged from their cozy beds to "go on an adventure".


This is my family walking down the street...at 2:35 in the morning.





And here's our flooded bridge.






And the river runs!




And it was quite obvious that the southern never leave the house without makeup motto doesn't apply to a wee hour walkabout. I didn't look too good.



I probably had some serious halitosis going on too!

Live from Alice Springs,
A

PS - I happen to have it on good authority that there will be another post tomorrow! Check back!