Where
do we sleep everybody?? Once when we had somebody knock on our door
to introduce themselves, they almost fell over as the whole 7 of us
piled out, one after the other (some more gracefully than others). In
fact, the same effect happens to people when we all pile out of the
Transit after a day of driving, half of us falling over each other in
our haste to get out. How on earth do you fit in a 6 by 2 m caravan,
let alone travel around in it. One of the most common questions is
where do you all sleep?
In
the caravan, at the back, we have 2 sets of double bunks. Chloe and I
sleep on the two top beds, while Tahlia sleeps on the bottom bunk.
That leaves one spare bunk, and we use it to store the printer, toys,
and the winter hanging clothes. We installed a hanging rail hanging
from the top bunk. It is quite useful, and we put the printer in
between the clothes, stopping it from being damaged while traveling.
One
of the bad things about the double bunks is the vinyl that covers the
mattress. When we sweat, (like leather lounges) we all stick to it
and it is quite painful to peel ourselves off. To stop us all waking
up and having to peel ourselves off, we put blankets and slepingbags
on the beds to stop us from having to go through the painful (I am
completely serious) experience of peeling ourselves off the sweaty
mattresses.
Mum
and Dad have a double bed up the front of the caravan. While in
Cloncurry, we rotated the bed, and we freed up more space. The bed
serves as a couch as well as a bed, and mum and dad are always
brushing out dirt from the bed, as naughty kids (not me) are jumping
on the bed. The bed is definitely the comfiest of all, and everyone
is stealing nanny naps on the bed when we can.
The boys sleep in stretcher tents. Stretcher tents are basically a swag on a stretcher, and they have been really good for traveling around. The boys got these stretcher tents for their birthdays before we left, and they camped out in them at home just to test them out.
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