Going camping!

Well last weekend my cousin Janell and her new husband Alex came around for dinner (yes London branch of the family I remembered to give them the voucher - phew). We had a great night just chatting and catching up. I'm a bad cousin and the last time (and first time) we caught was at Uncle Ralph's funeral last year - whoops. I got to check out their wedding photos (she looked lovely mum :-) ) and pick Janell's brain about how she did things for the wedding.

Anyway so an outcome of the evening was that we're going camping at Coolum with Janell and Alex on Anzac day long weekend. Very exciting! Paul has been wanting to go camping since we moved here so this is our first opportunity! So we went out the next day and bought a lovely tent from Anaconda (my other favourite store - Anaconda and Bunnings rock!) on special. Paul wanted to get a smaller one but for $30 more we could get one where

1. Paul can stand inside it
2. We can fit our bags at the end of the "bed" and still have the middle or side to walk around in
3. It has a decent sized, zipped in awning at the of the tent to store things or hang out in if it rains
   

Paul starting our "test run" of putting the tent up. Thought it'd be best to find out if there was anything wrong with it at home rather than when we're actually out camping.

The inner part of the tent put up. It has lots of netting on it so that you can let the breeze through during the hot day

The finished product.

The view of the tent from the side. Pretty big aye! But I'm so glad we got the big tent. it also means that if we have some visitors and decide to go camping then they don't have to sleep under the starts unless they want to (apparently the tent sleeps 6 - but I'm sure 4 would be comfy.) Paul now also has his "dog box" ;-) te he