WEDNESDAY MAY 3     MARONG

Inside Bus was really cold, this morning. I turned on the fan heater before getting dressed and taking Couey out for her morning walk around the park. At least, one of us would be emerging into a warm room.

There was ice on the front window of the Terios!

Ice on the car!

After breakfast, texted daughter to say we would not go, as invited, to tea with them tonight, because it was going to be too cold. I said we preferred to stay in and keep Bus warm. Also, there had been preliminary warnings about possible black ice on the roads tonight. She replied that she’d bring the boys out for a while, after school, and that she would also bring us two serves of her spag bol. Nice of her.

John slept late and then spent the day messing about with the laptop, tablet and hot spot stuff. He had a long call with a support person at Telstra. I read, in Bus. It was too chilly to sit outside. Occasionally took Couey for a walk around the park.

Cold day at the caravan park, despite the sunshine

Daughter and boys arrived about 4pm. She came equipped with the boys’ afternoon tea, too, because I don’t have crisps and biscuits stocked in my travelling pantry. We sat outside and chatted while they snacked. Then John took dog and young J up the back for doggy ball games. I chatted with A about his hopes to go on a school trip to Indonesia next year – an incentive for him to keep up the language study.

I mentioned that we were considering going to Boort next, a place we had never visited. Daughter had friends who were the new owners of the caravan park there. She phoned them and booked us in for a good site, for two nights, onto what she said was the best site. The family has one or two weekends there every year, so we were happy to have her arrange our booking.

Pretty callistemon by our site

By 6pm it was really cold again, and time for the family to leave. We walked them up to the car park at the front of the park.

I draped one of the dog bed sheets across the Teriod windscreen, to prevent an ice build up again tonight. John covered up the Bus front windscreen, too.

Tea was the last of the cucumber soup from home, and daughter’s spag bol, which was really nice. She had even brought a little bag of grated parmesan with it!

Watched some TV. It was another freezing night and I was really glad we were in the warm Bus.