First big distraction in the past month was the arrival of our stuff. Boxes and boxes and boxes of largely useless things that we thought we just couldn't live without. Including a truly ridiculous amount of packaged food. Kilos of sugar. Litres of curry paste. 20 jars of vegemite!!! I don't know what we were thinking when we were packing. We must have been delirious. Or anticipating a nuclear holocaust on arrival. Crazy stuff.
So we got stuck into the joyous task of unpacking it all.
It was like Christmas, lucky dip and pass the parcel all at once. Everything was so well disguised under layers of packing wrap that we were never quite sure what we would get..... beloved photo albums, newly purchased coffee machines or ....an ice cube tray! The fun didn't stop for a whole week.
We enlisted the help of the long-suffering Lissi Lala and John. The looks Lissi gave us as she unpacked our mountains of flour and sugar, all readily available locally of course, made us both feel very silly indeed.
John hit his limit fairly early in the piece and got stuck into the chicken stock to try and kill the pain.
I don't know what was in that chicken stock....
So after the strenuous task of telling Lissi and John where to put everything (I SWEAR it didn't really happen like that), we decided we really needed to get away from it all. So we climbed aboard Captain Harry's pirate ship and sailed the seven seas... well one of them anyway.
It is a hard life, to be sure.
It is a hard life, to be sure.
Stay tuned - more to come!
Welcome back!
ReplyDeleteand yes, isn't is hilarious what you think you need to take with you - you did seem to go a 'bit' over the top though :)