Adrian’s Brain Injury Blog

Heat Wave.

January 17th, 2007

It was official, 4 degrees; the sun was shinning the weather was sweet, made us want to move our walking feet. Lilly the OT offered to accompany us on a walk to a near by market. We rugged Blaz up in the usual layer upon layer style (developed by mum) and set out in the 4degrees. It was a scorcher, a beautiful change from the - temperatures we have grown a custom to. We set out by foot with the sun in our faces and luckily no wind at our back. The streets, paths and parks were crowded. People walked their dogs, some gathered in groups to play card and others stood alone flying kites. We just admired and walked on by.

Our walk was quiet different, because the direction we were heading had no paths. The street was our path and the cars were just objects in our way, we were on a mission. We used the bike lane to navigate the bust streets. Cars would pass metres away and bikes so close we could have sent them flying with one kick. I offered Blaz an incentive for the amount of bikes he knocked over with his kick, but i think he was more intent on playing chicken with the cars. We battled our way through an intersection and finally made it back onto a path, there were no more cars to play chicken with. We walked on through a park and then down into a tunnel that passed under a main road and then, yep, back onto the road. We continued our mission to the markets.

This market was fairly different to the markets we were used to. I mean dont get me wrong, the markets we go to are big, but this was the Miranda fair of all markets. The building towered over us and stretched for what looked like a kilometre. These markets are where all the locals come to shop. We ventured inside and i swear the building grew on us, it was like Santa’s sack. Store after store, level after level we wondered like children in a candy store. There was too much to cover in one afternoon we announced a week was needed to see it all, we would be back.

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