August 15th
What a wet miserable and horrible day. So far Perth’s weather hasn’t really inspired us to leave the camper trailer!
It is car servicing day – so Paul and Michael left at 7:45 this morning to drive the cars into the city – we thought it was about 15 minutes away – yeah more like 45mins and then they had to work out how to get back to the campground. They eventually arrived back a bit after 10:30.
With no car and miserable weather we lolled around in bed until just before 9am. Sam and I went for a shower – well I went for a shower and Sam came along as my audience. As Paul was doing the car thing I thought the least I could do was put on a couple of loads of washing and do some housework – possibly the best thing about living in a camper is that the housework takes less than five minutes – even I can handle that much.
It was a great opportunity for the kids to do some schoolwork – well I thought it was a great opportunity - them not so much. I won that little battle and they have all done some maths and Claire and Thomas have caught up on their journals. Seeing as the homework was done they have spent the rest of the day between the park (in the brief moments of windy sunshine), the television room and our camper playing with their iPods.
I on the other hand have been very industrious getting the washing and drying done, getting up to date on my blog, cooking dinner for tomorrow night and even having Debbie over for coffee and homemade cake – who says you have to lower your standards when you are travelling!
Paul and Michael were funny – after lunch they had to plan their route back to pick up the cars – which they did while Deb and I had coffee. It had a certain Amazing Race feel to it – ‘you are in Perth and you have to get from point A to point B’. Apparently they made it because after leaving at 2.30 they made it back by 4:45pm.
Once the cars were back (can I just say Toyota in Perth was great they washed and vacuumed the inside of the car) we decided to go out to dinner. My Sizzler-loving family thought they should see if Sizzler in WA is any different to Sizzler in NSW (it isn’t you still have to get up and get your own food which in my opinion defeats the purpose of going out to dinner). The Burgesses decided to join us as the thought of sitting in the tent in the freezing rainy weather was not appealing. So we did the right thing and Googled the addresses and worked out which one was closest and drove there – yeah closed for renovations. Now any other normal family would have said let’s just find somewhere else but noooooooo not mine we had to find another Sizzler. So after driving a further 20 minutes in the pouring rain we got there only top have to queue to get in (yet another reason I hate Sizzler).
In the end we had a nice meal and the kids loved it. We headed home with some very overfull bellies in the car (I won’t mention names but let’s just say Sam was the only one who didn’t eat himself silly). Back at the camper trailer and it was straight to bed – too damn cold to do anything else.
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