We went camping at Easter

And had a ball. Real camping - not caravan park camping. On a river.  I've never seen Dusts so comfortable - she was down at the bank fishing with her dad, prodding the carp, getting all muddy for fun, wandering around the bush, playing with all the dogs.  She's usually quite shy but she warmed up immediately to everyone (my uncle, cousins and their crew) - even showed some clever teflon-ing by getting my uncle his own biscut when he noticed hers with more than a hint of interest.  It was one of my dad's favourite things to do - and something my family did A LOT - so I am chuffed to bits that it's something we should all be able to do - I love camping.  And it's a leap of faith when you put 23 people together in a few tents around a campfire - you gotta just hope that they all get along. It was brilliant. Planning Queen came along with her crew too.  Highlights include: Easter Egg Hunt, Catching a few fish, Hanging with people I have known for almost all my life, having several drinks, being able to swim (just - it was murky but on a hot day - nothing beats a dip), no mobile phone for 4 days, sleeping in a tent and the ranger - this was a massive hit and very accomodating for the smaller kids (we had 7 aged 4 and under):

It's a long way but worth it.  We had a bit of drama on the 7 hr trip home - one of us didn't like the chips we had for lunch and had to get rid of them immediately.  We do a lot of car travelling so I hope this isn't the start of some kind of travel sickness.  It was just the once and she seemed to move on pretty quickly.  We'll wait and see.  Hope easter was breakful for everyone else.

Comments

[Kirsty]

Looks like Robinvale - were you up that way? I LOVED camping so much when I was a kid. The date's not interested though!

[PlanningQueen]

Thanks so much for letting us crash your family Easter camping. My kids had such a great time and your family was so hospitable.

As a chronic sufferer of travel sickness as a child, I hope that your poppet was just having a bad day and is not going to be a sufferer of travel sickness!

[justine]

hey cath

just thinking of you :) xx