Friday...27 September 2013

On Wednesday we went out to a pub just around the corner from the caravan park to have lunch with some friends who we last saw in South Australia as they were driving from Perth back to Sydney. After weeks of non stop rain the sun shone weakly through the clouds and we lunched outside in the garden. I even got exposed parts of me to turn a pretty shade of dark pink! The food was lovely but the service was dreadful! Still it was nice to see old friends and the conversation was lively. After lunch we all came back to my place for coffee and to look at a new fifth wheeler that had pulled into our park the day before. It is the one our friends are considering trading up to from their King of the Road fifth wheeler.

Then yesterday we finally got our new toilet from Sydney. (Side note, must go to this Sydney place one day, it is featuring in our lives a bit lately!) There was a minor hump when we found out the plumbing fitted to our old toilet is 100 mm long and the new one needed to be 200 mm long! Himself went to Bunnings for another piece of water pressure holding hose and a couple of hours later we had a nice new toilet that works and looks good too. Of course it rained off and on all through the day which added a bit extra to the outside part of the job. Trips to the tap and to adjust the outside water fittings had to be done in between showers.
In the middle of all that, everyone chose yesterday to come and visit us. We had three separate sets of visitors over lapping each other throughout the day. With the water turned off so that Himself could work on the toilet, making cups of tea and coffee required buckets of water to be carried from an outside tap and in the middle of it all the power was turned off as the park is doing some building work. Quite a an effort to appear normal and not a demented new age camper who has all the luxury items but never uses them! Do hope our guests had a fine day out, we thought it was wonderful to see each and every one of them.