We sprang into spring so fast that apparently we skipped spring altogether and went straight from winter into summer. Honestly, I don’t mind. But it was a bit weird going from twenty, kinda still using the electric heater during the nights to 30C, sweaty nights and uncertainty regarding what layers to bring when you leave the house.

This weekend, we have had over 30C, while we both have had colds. Mikael since last Saturday and I since Tuesday evening. It hasn’t been the worst cold we’ve ever had, but it is so stubborn and manifests differently every day. Today, it was all about itchy throats that made us both cough a lot. Yesterday, I was heavy in my sinuses, runny nose and feverish and a couple of days before that, it was just my sinuses burning and another day feverish joints. Super weird.

Today was officially the first day of spring, our second season down under. I’m sure it’s not just gonna be constantly 30C from now on, so I’m looking forward to some “lagom” spring warmth. Although, I really don’t mind 30C. I love this!

Even if we don’t feel our best at the moment, we still walked down to the beach today to look a little at the Lifesaving world championship. Unfortunately, we got there a bit late due to other more urgent errands today, but we managed to see the Roundup of open ocean relay. Or something? Honestly, it is just so interesting to see something I have never even heard of before. This looked like they were several in a team, running laps on sand and then leaving some surf ski rowing to another team mate. On Friday, I was there for a few more hours and watched them run in the sand after some sticks and one person was eliminated every race. And also ocean board race and surf ski and swim rescue.

Sweden is here competing. Which is weird, we don’t really have any lifeguards, do we? And Czechia? They don’t even have any oceans? Anyway, Australia and South Africa seem to be the countries winning the most.