We went to Hobart's summer festival on the 30th of December 2007 and when we were about to go home we noticed that Raphael only had one hearing aid in. I was really tired but I couldn't just go back to Australian Hearing and say that I lost the hearing aid but didn't even look for it.
I didn't think that there was any hope for finding it. The summer festival stretched from parliament house lawns all the way along the docks. I think that I heard that there was an average attendance of 30,000 people per day to the festival but because that was the Sunday I think that there were more. I reckon that there were well over 50,000 people there and some areas were totally packed.
So with this impossibility of finding a needle in a haystack I trudged back along the path that we had walked scanning the ground hoping to see a scuffed, kicked or trodden on hearing aid. I asked stands along the way to locate the areas where lost property was kept. The first lost property that I found didn't have it, only an umbrella, a hat and a coat.
I was just about to give in but there was another lost property place to check and so I knocked on the the little temporary police hut's door. As I stepped in asking "has a baby's hearing aid been turned in..." I saw it sitting all by itself in the middle of the desk. It was in perfect condition, not stepped on, scuffed or kicked about; amazing! I had found some of my family during my search and they had joined in the hunt; when I showed them my success they were also amazed.
Apparently it was found on the parliament house lawns where we started our day in the festival. Interestingly I did not even look on the lawns because I thought that I had seen him with both hearing aids after we had left them but thank goodness someone picked it up and handed it to a policeman.
It was much quieter on the lawns by the time I took this photo as all of the activity had moved down to the docks.
Wednesday, 2 January 2008
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