Last month was a hard one for us.

Unfortunately, we had a death in the family. My husband’s cousin passed away suddenly at the age of fifty-one and still, no one knows why.

It was busy and emotional, and we had people coming and going from our house on and off for two weeks, which was fine and expected since my man’s parents live in another state, but it also made working a bit difficult. However, we got there in the end and now we’re both just tired.

All we’ve done is work and house chores and mundane stuff and we need a break. We’re dragging our feet.

Our 33rd wedding anniversary is coming up this month, and we can’t go away until the middle of October, but we’re going to.

We haven’t figured out where we’re going to go camping, but I’m not sure it will be north up on the banks of the mighty Murray River since we’re in our 3^rd La Nina, and we’ve had lots of rain with more predicted over the next six months.

We will however investigate before we head off to make sure we aren’t going to get caught up in floods and end up getting stuck. Maybe the rivers will have gone down and if not we can look at camping near a lake. Or maybe we won’t go near any bodies of water at all.

We’ll do our research and decide where we’re heading closer to our holiday date.

Last year my man and I had plans to drive up to Darwin in the Northern Territory but because of Covid we were locked down the day before we were supposed to leave. #Sigh#

We had thought about heading north this winter but with the price of fuel being so ridiculously high as well as food, we’re putting our big trip off until next year. Let’s hope the world’s economy is better by then, but to be honest, maybe we’ll still go no matter what. It’s been a dream of ours for a few years to drive from way down south in Victoria, all the way to the top of Australia to Darwin seeing the sights and having a long break.

Tomorrow my man and I are going to my sister’s for dinner. My son and daughter are working so they can’t come. My sister’s family, our parents and my brother and his family will also be there. We’re all bringing something so my sister doesn’t have to do everything.

Her son is flying back home to Geelong from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia with his daughter, and it will be wonderful to see them again.

I have to get up early and get to the shops so I can start cooking since we are supposed to be at my sister’s by 4 pm. I can’t wait to see them all.