campingg (cania gorge)

ok well thisll take ages to write so im gonna do them in different posts. lets start from the beginning....


I woke up (or got woken up by mum) at around 3 in the morning. usually I'm fine with the whole 'get up extremely early without wanting to collapse and sleep' thing so it wasnt too bad. Went around the house making sure I hadnt forgotten anything, and trying to wake myself up. It was freezing because the sun obviously wasnt up yet, but i got changed into my short shorts and a shirt anyway, coz i knew itd get hotter. we eventually got into the car with the trailer (we call it B.E.R.T - Big Extremely Red Trailer) on the back. I'd made suer to charge my phone so i could listen to my music, and not whatever music my sisters and parents had brought. I was glad I did, because the first CD in was Jimmy Barnes - great.... So, i put in my headphones, turned them up to full volume and prepared for the drive. As hard as i tried not to fall asleep, my stupid human instincts kicked in and i just drifted away. I probably wouldnt have if I had gotten to sleep at a reasonable time the night before, but of course I didnt. I got to sleep around 10.30 - 11.00 (probably swaying more towards the 11 mark...) so I'd only gotten about 4ish hours of sleep. I hate hate hate sleeping in the car tho, so it wasnt like I was knocked out, I kept randomly waking up then drifting again. I ended up taking out my headphones while i tried to get comfortable (impossible in a car) then I gave up after about say 1 and a half hours. but by this stage Hannah (sister - youngest) had fallen asleep on me. oh yay. it was hot enough already without her on me, and i could even push her off, because Samantha (sister - devil child) was asleep on Hannah!! This was going to be a long drive...

Eventually after a few hours we made it to Gympie for a healthy maccas breakfast :) haha. I made sure I got a coffee to prepare me for the next about 5 hours. I tried not to think that possily the next hour and a half i would have people laying on me asleep. It was a really good breakfast. The coffee was reallyyy good. (caramel latte hehe) After breakfast we got back in the car and up went the volume of my music again. I wasnt really in the mood to talk (though I was constantly asking for the air con to be turned up becuase of the heat my sister's pillow was putting on me) , so i tuned myself out by concentrating on the music. We stopped a few more times before lunch to get petrol, and I was so glad Hannah and Sam had had enough sleep. I'd also disocovered I'd over come my feeling sick when I read in the car and that was what I had been doing since we had left maccas. I was reading Harry Potter 7 for the second time because I'd forgotten what had happened, and was wishing I'd brought another book, because I was about a third through by the time we stopped for lunch, and we still had a few hours, and I knew I would read on the way back, but I would be finished before then. Lunch was good. I just had a pie, but it was really good for something you'd expect from a small country town. Back in the car I started reading again, also the music on, but I'd turned it down because mum was getting frustrated when she went to talk to me and I was unresponsive.

When we reached the camp site we had been driving for 8 and a half hours including stops. OhMyGod. I hated long trips and that was like my nightmare, so I wasnt in a good mood. the sisters would be talking to me when mum n dad went to sign us all in, which took longer than we expected, and I'd just get angry at them because they were being stupid. but my mood wasnt even improved by taking what seemed like forever to decide whos tents would go where. once we'd finally figured it out, I'd had enough waiting and went to grab my tent and the ground sheet to set it all up. mum was telling me n sam to work together, but i ended up being able to do it on my own, just needing some help to get the poles up, and my arm was dead by the end of hammering 12 poles in. then i had to help sam coz she's hopeless. it took the hannah mum n dad 3 hours to put up the tarp (its humungousssssss) because dad was being difficult about it, and then there was a hugeee gust of wind (it had been windy all day) and it bent one of the poles and the whole thing went down. mum was soooooo annoyed.

a while later after getting up a smaller tarp, we were set up. it was dark by then. so we didnt want to have to unpack everything, so we just had some sandwhiches and I was so tired that I went hyper and i think everyone else did too, because by the end of 'dinner' we were all laughing our heads off at everything and anything. I decided to give up and go to bed eventually.