Oh the Joys of Parenting

Despite repetitive reminders of hygiene, what not to put near or in one's mouth and instant hand cleaning gel, Cole still managed to pick up a bug which hit while resting innocently at Gate 1 of the Qantas section of the Sydney airport. Meanwhile, Piper and Aidan were running on fumes and once on the flight to Adelaide, went down like a tonne of bricks. So now we had a sicky requiring frequent re-bagging and 2 dead weights needing regular wakings and/or carrying once at the Adelaide airport. To cap it all off my lower back had started to ache - likely from the bizarre positions I had to put myself in on the long haul flight to try to sleep. We eventually found the Kluger in the parking lot, loaded our sleepy sick bunch as well as the baggage and headed to pick up Gertie - our newly named caravan - which was being 'caravan-sat' by some friends of the Coddingtons in the Adelaide Hills. She seemed to have weathered the last two weeks well excepting her freezer where I had unfortunately left some frozen peas. Now they were overcooked and a tad mushy with a certain 'je ne sais quoi'- type of smell - 'cadaverin' for veggies. We finally made it to our new caravan park in Murray Bridge, where we'll be for the next 3 weeks working -  if I can get a provider number sorted. Our site is basically on the banks of the Murray River and we get a bit of breeze at night as things cool down. It was 35 degrees when we pulled in last night around 7 pm and fortunately cooled further overnight so we were able to sleep. It's heated up to about the same today but we're managing. It's a school day so the kids are getting into their studies and Jen and I are getting ourselves organized. Cole is all better now and no one else has come down with the dreaded disease so hopefully we're past it. Am off now to meet some of the local docs and get acquainted with Murray Bridge.