We go outside and clean the truckload of empty beer bottles, cans, wine bottles and rubbish into a kind of pile, then finally at 3am we crash. Did you notice that the entire night, I did not mention me puking lmao I managed not to get as drunk as I did that night at Oct's a few months ago.

OMG why am I awake????? No one else is awake, and I can't sleep. Only one answer on what to do, I go online. I chat away to a few friends, and finally convince myself that giving up smoking for a New Years resolution was a stupid thing to do. I go out and buy some smokes, come back and play Turkey Shoot on the computer until 9.30am when finally someone else in the house wakes up. Oct and my hubby look like absolute shit, they tell me I look just as bad, and I'm not surprised because the view from this side of my eyes isn't that crash hot. Oct and I pack the kids up, and set off for 3 days camping.

We arrive at Sussex Inlet and the yard of Oct's uncle where we are meant to be camping is 2 inches under water, the first night we all sleep in the screened enclosure of the back porch. Her uncles house has 22 guests staying, so it's a little crowded and all of the guests are members of Oct's family. ( if you think she is weird, you should spend 5 days surrounded by 22 of her family). We blow up the air mattresses to sleep on, make up the beds and attempt to try and get some sleep. It's about 11pm, and I'm exhausted from the night before, so all I want to do is crash for about 10 hours, but Oct has other ideas. She laughs and chats and has all the kids laughing until finally one of her relatives spots a possum on the front verandah, everyone goes out to see the possum and I finally get to go to sleep.

I put the doona under me and my daughter, at least it's a little more comfortable than the floor, while doing this, I manage to wake Oct up, she can't figure out what I'm doing, so I go through the whole story, I swear and curse at my hubby who is asleep in our bed back in Wollongong and probably very comfortable.

Oct's family think it's very normal to get up at 5am to go fishing. Oct and I don't go on this fishing trip, but man, can they make a lot of noise at 5am

We finally get up at 7am, and it's pouring rain and windy. There is a production line happening in the kitchen for breakfast, and after about 2 hours, everyone is fed. We organise ourselves, and drive down to Oct's parents place, we stay there for a while, then go into town to shop for food. The kids go to the ice cream parlour while Oct and I go and get the food. Once again, I refrain from skipping through the aisles and embarrassing Oct as I know now how hard she can hit. We get back to Oct's uncles place, and make the kids unpack everything we had bought while we sit and chat with her family.

It has finally stopped raining, so we can go and put her boat in the water. I manage to get out of helping by falling asleep, and Oct was kind enough not to wake me.

We are on the river and fishing. My son catches his first ever fish, but it's only small and has to be thrown back, 2 minutes later he catches another fish, but this goes back too. My daughter then catches her first fish, and we get to keep this one. I catch 2 and Oct's eldest son catches one. Oct catches 2 as well.

We cook the fish that we just caught for dinner, and Oct actually makes me taste the fish, I refrain from spitting it out, it wasn't that gross. We head to bed about 11pm because Oct is going to get us all up at 6am to go fishing again.

Uh oh, we slept in. Damn that's a shame, I was so looking forward to getting up at 6am on my day off. It takes us an hour to organise the kids and ourselves before we set off fishing. I get the job of covering all the kids in sun cream before we go out, and like a stupid idiot, I wiped what was left on my shoulders. We spend 3 hours out in the boat fishing in the hot sun, not really catching anything, but having a good time. We arrive back at Oct's uncle's place, and Oct's cousin informs me that I have a hand print on each arm where I had wiped the sun cream a few hours before, with the rest of me sunburned, the hand prints really stood out. Oh well, I knew I would do something stupid, I just didn't think it would take this long to do. We take the kids up the river to the beach and have a swim in the freezing cold water, I convinced Oct it really wasn't that cold once you were in, and the fool believed me hehehehehe. We go back to the shops because all the kids have eaten just about everything we had bought. Oct and I get in trouble from the checkout chick for arguing about who was going to pay. She suggests we just pay half each, and we tell her we would rather argue about it than do something as simple as split the costs.

We go back to Oct's uncles place and everyone is sitting around relaxing and chatting. One of the kids hands me a water pistol, and I can't resist the urge, I just have to squirt Oct with the water, but as usual my timing is bad, she has a litre bottle full of water in her hand as I squirt her. She flicks the bottle at me and manages to drown me from head to waist. I think that's a bit harsh considering the one little squirt I hit her with was only tiny. My son kindly hands me his super soaker, and the water fight begins. I drown all of the kids, then turn on Oct, she still has a bottle of water, but I'm better prepared this time. As I was already wet, I didn't care, but she was dry, and that hardly seemed fair. By the time I emptied the super soaker, she was as drowned as me. Nothing quite like a bit of juvenile fun. lol We go out fishing again in the afternoon, and spend the night sitting around chatting.

OMFG what is wrong with this woman, it's not even 6am and she is waking me to go fishing???????? Since I know it's pointless protesting, we get organised and go out in the boat. We only catch 3 fish, and 2 have to be thrown back.. After about 2 hours we head back in because the kids are hungry and want breakfast.

We sit around and chat, not really functioning in any manner, and watch the weather change from thunderstorms to hot and sunny to thunderstorms to hot and sunny ( I'm sure you get the idea). We fish again in the afternoon, feed the kids and get rid of them by 10pm. Oct and I sit outside chatting and watching and feeding the kangaroos, and finally crash about midnight.