too hot to breathe

In a few hours when Ali and the kids get back from school we’ll head off to Chilis up on the main drag for a final meal together before Rob and I start winging our way back home. Yesterday afternoon was Big Buddha followed by dinner at the extraordinary Naturale, a roadside restaurant that seems to have developed organically around a tree. Each deck has a kind of private treehouse super-secret clubhouse vibe to it. Decor included a gutted television fishtank. Awesome food, mai tais, the inevitable Chang and something else I can only describe as a mint slushee.

Not sure if that’s thunder in the distance or another explosive power failure. Didn’t sleep well last night, not sure if that was on account of the heat or the peculiar noises emanating from the ‘pool’ next door in the wee small hours. There are things in that pool. Large shapes that splash and shift and stutter in the night. Things swept in last time the roads flooded, invisible in daylight beneath the pond’s murky surface.