who needs sleep?

Ugh...ME!!

THURSDAY: The possums who decided to make our house theirs had a party on our roof. They were running back and forth, into the backyard, back up on the roof, fighting (or maybe mating?) and making way too much noise for us to get a good night sleep. You might be wondering why we haven't gotten rid of them yet but we have learned that it is very hard to buy weapons in this country. Even something like a sling shot or a pellet gun. Even if we managed to smuggle a sling shot into the country there are heavy fines for harming them. I think possums have more rights than humans.

FRIDAY: We went camping in a beach town called Batemans Bay. We were excited to get a powered camp site so we could watch movies on the laptop after dark. Turns out the powered sites are in a VERY well lit area. We had at least 6 street lights surrounding our tent. I woke up at about 1 am thinking it was almost time to wake up because the sun was coming up and couldn't fall back asleep. Great if you need to use the bathroom in the middle of the night but not so great for sleeping.

SATURDAY: Still camping in Batemans Bay it got really windy that night. The rain flap being blow around was really loud which made it hard to fall asleep. Just when we would get to sleep the wind would pick up and wake us up. When the stakes started coming up and the walls started collapsing from the wind at around 1:30 am we decided we would have to move into the car if we were going to get any sleep. First we had to move everything from inside of the car into the tent so we could fit in the back of the station wagon. (we found the street lights very handy that night!) But let me just say that the back of a station wagon is not exactly a comfy fit for a family of 4.

Luckily we were home Sunday night. I don't think our bed has ever felt so comfortable! I got around 10 hours of uninterrupted sleep.