Emily
has quickly adjusted to life wearing a plaster cast. After the first
night, it doesn’t seem to have caused her any pain, and she was quite
happy to sit and watch satellite TV all day long, without having to
move a muscle. And when the sun came out, she moved out onto the veranda,
looking over the horse paddocks, volleyball pitch, and the backpackers
playing petanque.
And
after two days she was up and about. In the hospital they'd wondered
about crutches, but Emily's happy without them Although we're not letting
her walk often, she doesn't want to sit down all day, and there are
times when she sees all the children playing and she just wants to be
up and about with them. Hopefully that means that she's not got a broken
bone, but we'll have to wait until next week to see.
Charlotte,
of course, hasn't slowed down a bit, and managed to get her very first
horse ride. Although it was just around one of the squares, she learnt
to be able to get the horse moving and steering it around. And her first
question after getting off?
"Can I get a horse when we get home?"
We've been asked a lot of questions that start and end
"Can I.....when
we get home?" and most of them have been answered with a 'maybe',
but this one just had to be a 'No'. Who knows what life will be like
when we get home, but I suspect it's unlikely to involve Charlotte having
a horse!