Annie's Holiday Diary

Hi Family Room Friends.

Don't you just love Christmas Holiday time?
Ours started with a relaxing family camping holiday on the NSW north coast. We packed our station wagon to groaning capacity, borrowed an e-bay exclusive tent from friends and were off.

All was going swimmingly, perfect weather, nothing but the great outdoors to distract our three children and a host of grey nomads to get acquainted with. The bargain tent had not come with instruction but that did not hinder my husband, he erected it as if he had designed the thing. It looked like a tent and we all fitted in! Unfortunately freak gale force winds pounded the tent for two days. The bargain broke. With the help of our neighbourly eighty year olds we regrouped and moved to another part of the camping ground in the hope of less wind. As it happens a queen bee had the same idea and set up nest in the tree adjacent to our tent.

The children are now quite intimate with the social infrastructure of a newly located bee hive. In between we managed
games of Monopoly, our eldest son learnt to body surf, my husband read Charles Dickens to us at twilight. We learnt to appreciate the simple things, waking up to the birds, cimbing under a soft sleeping bag in complete darkness, the sound of our children playing, watching pelicans fish for their supper.,sausages for breakfast and cereal for dinner. It was fun.

Our final disaster occurred on the trip home, our car turned up its toes at a petrol station. We caused quite a line up and I apologise to anyone in the vicinity of Bulladellah at the time.

So, Susan often encourages us that there is a blessing and a lesson in many of our experiences. She's right! We now have our very own 8 man tent (with instructions) a fully screened shade house and a new car. Best of all we have learnt to laugh in the most ridiculous of situations and keep them as memories for life.

Annie