The true joy of today was visiting yet another library. This time I went to the big library in Melbourne. It is huge and amazing.
There is a beautiful Reading Room with an impressive two storey glass domed roof and antique reading benches. It is peaceful and inviting. I could have stayed there all day but I only stayed a few hours reading some Australian poetry before heading back into St. Kilda for the preparations for our camping trip.
Firstly, the tent. Leah borrowed a tent from a friend at work and it arrived in Thursday night. It is a pre-war tent of epic proportions and I don't think we were expecting it. But we packed it all the same with the two air-beds [oh yeah, this is luxury camping] and pretty much everything else from the house.
Secondly, the car. El hired it from a work contact and we got a good price for it. It is an automatic estate with air-con but it makes this horrific clunking sound when it changes gear. I can't get used to the fact that the car changes the gear for you, suddenly your left foot feels completely useless. Anyway, it's comfortable.
Thirdly, the camp-site. We are staying on a plot at a site with a pool and we should arrive around 20:30. Last check-in is 21:30 and we have to buzz in. We have to put up the tents in the dark which should be quite entertaining.
I am excited.
Finally, the spider. I have been very fortunate on my travels as I have not encountered anything hairy with eight legs, until, we go to a MacDonald's drivethru [which are called Mac Cafe here]. We are just pulling up to the speaker box that you tell your order to when someone notices the dead but HUGE spider on the lit-up menu. It has either crawled in under the plastic and fried itself or someone has taken mercy on us aracnophobes and done me the favour of squashing it. It very nearly put me off my food. I was terrified.
Camp ahoy!
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