We left on our regular pre-Christmas camping trip yesterday. We had been undecided about where to go now that we have the camper trailer, and finally decided on the northern part of Kosciuszko National Park. We left home a bit later than we’d hoped, and we decided to just go to our normal campsite and we’d make a day trip to the northern part of the park, or maybe even come home that way and spend a night in a campground up there.
We also decided that now that Toby is better at traveling in the car that we’d try to get to the mountains in one day instead of staying overnight in (or near) Albury. That was fine with me as it was raining all day and the idea of setting up the camper in the rain and then probably packing it up wet again the next day to keep traveling just didn’t appeal.
We had a break for lunch at Euroa, another in Albury for the kids to play on the fabulous Adventure Playground there and then it was straight to the campsite. Poor Toby had his usual bout of motion sickness while traveling on the Alpine Way. We made it to our campsite quite late but there was still some daylight to get the camper set up.
It continued raining while we were setting up the camper, and when it wasn’t so hard or stopped briefly the kids went splashing in the puddles in their gumboots or riding through them on their bikes. At least it has cleaned off all most of the mud that was still caked on their brakes and wheels from our last trip. We had a very late dinner with two overtired kids going crazy, but finally they were in bed and asleep. I wasn’t far behind! It’s been a very busy few weeks.
