18 October 2016

We are going on an adventure

Next month Hubby and I will be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary! Twenty years!! It really doesn't feel like we've been married that long, I guess that's a good thing. Hubby and I have been contemplating for a while about what we'd like to do to celebrate our anniversary.



We thought of going overseas and taking the kids to somewhere like Disneyland or Fiji. We had celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary in Paris, and thought of taking the girls there (we could visit Disneyland Paris too!), but the prices of travelling overseas, accommodation, passports etc, becomes quite expensive on a single salary. We are also concerned of the terrorist acts that have been happening around the world, so we decided it might be nice to explore our own country.

In a couple weeks time we are heading on a road trip! We've decided to go on a camping holiday around South Australia and the outskirts of Victoria.

Hubby and I used to camp quite a bit before we had the girls, and loved it. The girls have had a small introduction to camping last Christmas holidays, which involved sleeping in our old tent in my brother's backyard. My brother lives on the mid Central Coast so I guess it's a little bit like having a holiday, but it was good to give the girls an idea of what it's like. They loved it!


Cherub sound asleep in her sleeping bag

As someone who has softened over the years, I'm become used to my cozy bed, so not sure how I'll go in my sleeping bag for all that time. But we've booked a B&B for our anniversary, so at least I get a cozy bed for a couple nights.

We are all getting very excited about our trip. I have been stressing about things to take, and the flooding and blackouts that have been happening throughout the South Australian and Victoria towns. We are keeping our fingers crossed that the weather sorts itself out soon, and the flood waters will eventually dry up.

We have bought ourselves a new 10 person instant tent (nice and roomy, and gives us and the girls our own rooms), which says it should only take us 3 minutes to get the tent up, and another 10 minutes or so, then to get the fly on and have it all pegged in. Hubby and I have done a couple of practice runs, and its taken us 15-20 minutes which was great, considering our old dome tent took about an hour to get up. If you happen to see a couple struggling to put up their 3 minute tent, its probably us...I'd be grateful if you came & helped us :)

See it says 3 minutes!!

Our new tent....looking big!
Hubby and I have been planning our itinerary, and booked a couple places we don't want to miss, like the ferry to Kangaroo Island which we are planning to visit for a few days.

What I am most looking forward to is the four of us spending (nearly) 4 whole weeks together!

As well as exploring and discovering new places together, enjoying each others company and not having to worry about school or work schedules, relaxing under the stars, playing many board & card games while having a much needed break from screen time (no TV in a tent!) and making some wonderful memories as a family.

I'll probably update Instagram with pics of places we've been to, but won't get a chance to write anything until I get back. So this will be my last post for a while.

Have you been on a family adventure? Do you like camping? 


13 comments:

  1. When my children were younger I was always too scared to take them camping as one of my kids was a wanderer and a sleep walker and I was scared I'd wake up and he'd be gone! Looking back I wish I hadn't worried so much and just gone camping with them. I'm sure there could have been strategies I could have taken to prevent him wandering.

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    1. I could only imagine how worried you would have been if he had slept walked and gone missing! Maybe now the kids are older you could try a weekend away camping. You could always tie a little bell to the tent, so if he did try to wander off you'd hear him open the tent :)

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  2. This sounds so exciting, Julie. We never camped as a family until earlier this year and we loved it. We have since bought our own tent and have been again. An air mattress is my saviour. I don't think I could do it without one. We have an air pump that goes into the dash of the car and inflates the air beds super-quick. Enjoy your adventure and happy 20th anniversary. Such a fabulous milestone. x

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    1. Thanks Bron! ;) I'm so glad you and the family enjoy camping. My husband and I have some great memories from camping trips away.

      We have self-inflating mattresses so I am thankful for those, but we just found that the stretcher beds we purchased don't fit inside the tent...arrggh!

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  3. This sounds like a wonderful family holiday. I have not been camping with my kids ever. It's because there are six of them and I think I would go batty with the worry, noise and washing!

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    1. Thanks Jody, we are really looking forward in having a nice break and getting away from everything & everyone :) I can only imagine how challenging (for a better word) it would be to go camping with six! :)

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  4. Sounds fabulous! Enjoy. Hubster and I have plans to take the kids out of school for a term or two when they're older and caravan around Australia. Vague plans for now, but I hope we're in a position to do it! #teamIBOT

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    1. Thanks Emily, Your plans sound great! My brother & his family have taken their kids on that same holiday - I think it would be an amazing opportunity for the kids. Thanks for the heads up about the sidebar too! :)

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  5. P.S. And FYI, I can't see your sidebar on my computer unless I scroll right. Just thought you'd like to know! x

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  6. Enjoy! Sounds amazing Julie! We just celebrated 10 years! X

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    1. Thanks Elisa, it was amazing!! Happy Anniversary to you too, I hope you had a great day. x

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  7. Oh this is fabulous. Hope you post lots on Instagram. Love that the instant tent is 3 minutes + 10 but then becomes almost 30 minutes. I hate helping put up the tent and gear but enjoy it when we can camp away from caravan parks. I like bush camping or places where spaces are far apart. Have fun and happy anniversary.

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    1. Hi Deb, Thanks we had a wonderful time. I posted a few pics on IG where we visited but didn't have coverage in some of the more remote areas where we stayed, like Kangaroo Island. Me too on the putting the tent up and packing. I was getting the girls organised most days and poor Hubby did the bulk of packing the stuff in the trailer. We did alright with our instant tent...we got completely up in about 20-25 minutes, the tent itself is quick say 5 mins, its just then putting on the fly and pegging it down :) I'm more of a stay in a caravan park with amenities type of girl. xx

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