Tents aren't walls

Hello children, today's blog comes to you directly from the inside of our tent. We are tenting in a farmer's paddock in the New Forest. There are cows mooing just outside the door. We had a super picnic tea on our new burner and with all the new camping stuff we got from sainsbury's :) (including but not limited to a hammer, tea towel, and cooking pot). Wee story about the burner. My parents gave us a wee campinggaz burner a couple of Christmas's ago and we were super sure we brought it to the UK with us. So sure infact, that we went and bought four gas canisters for it (at the same time we got our tent). Turns out that we didn't bring it with us and must be sitting in a box in my grandads garage. So we made another trip to the camping store and bought another burner and now we have one in each hemisphere.



We had a pretty quiet day today but we did drive to Christchurch! Christchurch is a small town next to Bournemouth and even has a Avon river running by it! We visited the church there (a priory to be exact) and we saw there was a stone in the wall which is from the Christchurch Cathedral in NZ! I'm just noticing that I'm using lots of !, I guess I must find it exciting to visit a town with the same name as my birthplace. Later on we visited with Mark and Katie and their baby twins. Last time we saw them was almost a year ago and they have grown heaps! (The babies, not Mark and Katie). Ellie was walking around and had a very mischevious, but very very cute smile. Tia seemed very curious about everything but didn't seem to be as much as a menace as her sister.

Afterwards we headed to the New Forest and since its such a nice day we decided to camp out for the night and test out all of our camping stuff. Better to find out what stuff we're missing while we're still in an english speaking country :). Its been so nice just sitting out in the open and cooking our dinner, enjoying the sunshine and living the dream. "O yeah" says Gem.