In
Memory of John Candy
We are now getting organised
to be able to live out of doors, we have a large awning (which is a roof canopy
fixed to the side of the TT) and a ground sheet. We now have enough chairs for
everyone to sit on (including a little fold up chair for Brianna) and tables to
eat from, also we have moved the toaster out, so that the heat doesn’t build up
in the TT. Because it is warm and has rained very little we are reasonably happy
to leave things outside, however there are racoons. Sally and Sarah actually
saw one. They were looking out of the window as it was getting dark and saw a
racoon head pop up above our little table. It had a look round and then moved
off, very exciting, But it means we don’t leave any food out because they will
find it and take it. This was nearly our downfall.
At this point you need to remind yourself of the film The Great Outdoors
with John Candy and Dan Ackroyd. When I got up this morning I went out and
found the toaster exactly where it is in the picture. The racoons had attempted
to drag the toaster off into the forest. They are obviously smart enough to
know that it still needs to be plugged in to work, but not smart enough to
realise that they could have plugged it in to any of the other camp site power
sockets, then we would never have found it.
Presumably the conversation between
Mr and Mrs Racoon went something like this (these are the subtitles and it may
have lost something in translation).
‘Hey they think they have
really cleaned up round here’
‘I know, these people have
no idea of how to put on a menu’
‘They even swept the porch’
‘Yeah, but I can smell
TOAST!!’
‘We love TOAST’
‘Hey why don’t we make
TOAST’
‘Because we don’t know how
to and there’s no bread’
‘Hey, why don’t we use bread
from one of the other restaurants ‘
‘We could really do with a
TOASTER at home’
‘If we had a TOASTER, we would
be really king round here.’
‘We could have all kinds of
cool TOASTER parties’
‘Everybody loves a family
with a TOASTER’
‘We could cook all kinds of
stuff from the cafes here’
‘Waffles, pop tarts and
banana skins’‘
OK, we’ll have it, give me a
hand to carry it’‘
Oh dear, they haven’t put a
long cord on the TOASTER’
‘Shucks, there goes another
evolutionary step forward, just because we don’t know where the extension cord
is’
‘Don’t worry, We’ll be
back!!!
Seaworld
Sunday: Today we are going
to Seaworld. We arrived in perfect time to go and see the dolphins in their
performance called ‘Blue Horizons’. It was really good, the dolphins did tricks
with people and they had acrobats on high swings and also parrots that flew round
above our heads, very exciting. We then went to see the killer whales in their
performance of ‘Believe’. They are much larger than dolphins and it was a very
impressive display. After that we saw the penguins, the sharks (not in the same
area) and the actic animals. It was very nice.
In the afternoon Brianna went to see the ‘Elmo and
the Buccaneers’ performance. Then within minutes the sky turned black, the wind
came up to gale force and it rained and thundered and lightninged. It stormed
for about half an hour then was OK again. So a thunderstorm on 2 days running. 
