One Night In An Actual Bed In An Actual House

Today will be the last blog until we get back from New Zealand unless we get Wi Fi somehow and I get time to blog. However when we get back I will post the photos for all to enjoy. I still haven't worked out how to add photos using the iPad so if anyone knows let me in on the secret. Today is also the start of the two weeks school holiday break, and it feels great. So I am grateful for that. It has also now been three weeks since we moved into the camper and even though I am truly over it, I am grateful that we as a family have coped with it all, if anything it has brought us a little closer, ha ha literally and emotionally, and mind you not always in a good way, as being this close to each other has its set backs and Dave and I have at times been a little harsh with our words to one another. It's funny the things you take for granted when you are living in a house and then all of a sudden you're not, like...... Washing dishes in the dark at the outdoor sink, waking up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet in the outside bathroom in the shack, cooking on a space the size of a stable table, storing food in a bar size fridge, eating together at a table the size of two stable tables and being told to move over just a little every five seconds, going outside to the tent to get your clothes and then on returning knocking the canopy just enough so the water that's sitting on top dribbles down onto your head, down your back and wetting the clean clothes you just got out to wear so you now have to hang them up to dry and get something else to wear, and which makes you much more cautious the next time, and last but not least, packing four suitcases in a tent was a bit of a challenge but somehow we managed. So you see there's lots more to living in a camper than you think. I am grateful that tonight we are going to my sister's place and sleeping in an actual house on an actual bed as tomorrow we leave early for our plane trip to New Zealand to spend another ten nights in a camper, hopefully a little more luxurious than our one and with great views that change each day.
Steph