Camping

We went camping last Sunday and Monday for a night.  We were supposed to go for two nights but our car got halfway there and the water pump stopped working and everything got very hot.  So, we stopped where we were.  There was a big patch of rosella flowers (to make rosella jam) so we picked those for a while.  Then we locked up the car and went hiking up the nearby mountain.  The grass was very tall.  Jarrah spent most of the hike on Daddy's shoulders.  Amelie was a trooper and tromped through the grass.  

We got to the top of a little mountain which had quite a view over the surrounding mountains.    

We found leftovers from a cut down tree and Jarrah found a rock that she wanted to bring home. 

 The girls had to climb up every incline tree they came across and pretend to be riding a horse.  

We got back to the car finally after trudging through neck high grass for what seemed like forever.  We set up camp in a rice field and had a campfire (burning up the rice straw).  The owner of the field came by to see what we were up to and to make sure we didn't end up burning his roofing that was drying nearby.  Had a comfortable nights sleep on our mattresses in our tent!  Pretty fancy camping.  Amelie was the chief fire attendant.  Had a great view of the millions of stars in the sky through the skylight in our tent.

And that was day one of our campout.
I shall write more later.  I need to go and cook something sweet with passionfruit again!