Yesterday we had a picnic lunch with visiting family from Hong Kong at Tim Neville Arboretum. I suggested a picnic lunch because it was going to be a fine day, the park has the best playground for young kids and the roses were in bloom in the garden. Look at the beautiful flowers!
I made seafood fried rice vermicelli, pani puri, pork and chive dumplings, Gary bought a bucket of fried chicken and carve a fruit bowl out of a watermelon and filled it with watermelon pieces, ayu jelly and sapphire grapes. It was a great hit with the adults and kids alike who finished everything inside and the kids even brought the watermelon bowl home! We also bought two packs of snags to barbeque, but all the tables with barbeques were fully booked from at least 11:30am, so we brought it back home again in the cool bag.
It was good catching up with family whom we have not seen for at least a year, but not so great dodging bullets about what other family members were up to. It's a long story.. and so difficult to be diplomatic about everything.
Regrettably, my skin blistered badly under the high UV rays of the Australian sun. I had terrible sun burn only on my face even though I wore sunglasses and a hat. I slathered aloe vera gel, serums, healing balm, mineral water spray and oatmeal creams onto my face, but the red patches which are now peeling only seem to be spreading. The last two - mineral water spray and oatmeal cream seem to provide some relief but my skin still feels tight and itchy. I am a twice cooked pork - already sun burnt from our trip to the thermal springs and sun burnt again from the picnic. I will be keeping out of the sun's nasty rays from now on.
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