It's Sunday morning—and it's my birthday! Not exactly the type of day I imagined when I pictured my first birthday in the Gold Coast, thanks to what is now referred to as Ex -Cyclone Alfred. A week ago I was picturing a warm, sunny day on the beach for my March birthday, but Mother Nature had other plans this year!  We spent Thursday and Friday waiting for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall, hunkering down at home in a sort of strange lockdown-like (hello Covid flashbacks!) limbo. The cyclone was moving slower than originally anticipated, so its predicted arrival kept being pushed back. We went from expecting the cyclone to hit land late Thursday night to a Saturday morning arrival. With that, the weather was milder than expected on both Thursday and Friday. On Thursday my dad kept busy painting the hallway, my mom and I visited Ella's nail salon, and Ollie and I squeezed in a few rounds of Just Dance and Brain Breaks on YouTube... seriously, it was just like Covid! Thursday n...