Our church is in the habit of eating a meal together and sharing in the Lord's Supper with one another before Good Friday, so Thursday night was a big church dinner. The turn out was smaller than expected, but it was still a great opportunity to share food with each other and remember Christ together.
After dinner was done, we had to rush to Kmart to buy camping supplies before it closed for Good Friday. We purchased a 4 man tent, a lantern, and some food to take camping with us from the Coles next door. Soong is really excited about the lantern, it works by winding it and charging the batteries and is really bright.
Good Friday Adventures
We started the day by dropping a "Happy Easter" cake around to Nan's house on the way to church. Church was wonderful, Kirsty did the kids talk and illustrated how Jesus swaps lives with us in order to die for our sins and present us holy and blameless before God. Peter Lin continued to talk about this, explaining how Jesus takes our debts and nails them to the cross with his death. Praise God for Jesus and his sacrificial death - that he died for us!
After church we packed the car and began the drive down to Moss Vale for our mini camping trip. I stopped by my dad's house to pick up my brazier, but it has gone AWOL since I lived there 2 years ago. I made a mental note to purchase another one from Bunnings in the near future, and hoped it wouldn't be a big deal that we didn't bring our own firepit.
Although we thought we were the last people to leave, we got to the campsite first. Thom, Chris and Bryce soon followed, and then the Matt & Ez with their family. We enquired with the front office about campfires, and they informed us that without a firepit, we couldn't have a fire. Matt and I left the others to set up tents and we went out for a drive around Moss Vale to see if we could find anything at all to use as a firebin.
We returned with an empty safe. It had been lying in the back car park of an alarm factory, in overgrown grass by a bin, alongside a pile of wood perfect for a fire. We piled all of these things into the back of my Jazz. The boys estimate that the safe would have been at least 100 kilos and they struggled to lift it. I have no idea how Matt and I managed to get it into my car in the first place. But great success, we had a fire.
Christine had also bought a 4 man tent from Kmart, however there was one issue with our super awesome 4 man tents. The double mattress wouldn't fit through the door. We had to inflate the double mattress from inside the tent, and then it barely fit! Christine's comment: "Four man? My butt." Then, just to prove the point, we made Bryce, Soong, Matt and Thom all get into the tent.
Dinner was sausages, bread rolls, salad and junk food. I brought choc chip hot cross buns and we toasted them over the fire (it made the bread crispy and the chocolate melty). Thom brought the right materials to make damper and so we toasted damper on sticks as well. We chatted into the night.
The next morning was pancakes, bacon, eggs and muffins. It was so great. Rowan and I played at the playground while breakfast was cooking, and then we did the dishes together so that Matt and Erin could focus on packing up their tents. We had to get rid of the safe, and after initially giving it to a neighbouring camper, ended up driving it back to it's home beside the dumpster.
Soong and I drove straight home and went straight to bed - exhasuted. We had a wonderful afternoon sleep, and then we drove back to Campbelltown to have an Easter Saturday dinner at my Mum's house. Mum taught Soong how to make crumbed chicken schnitzels, and she made us a family favourite - silverside with white sauce, cauliflour and potato bake. Not the healthiest of meals, but a great treat meal! We had an Easter Egg hunt inside the house, and then played a few card games and board games to end the night.
Sunday morning Soong and I went to church. Peter Lin did the kids talk again, bringing back Professor Arthur Anymorcakes to explain how awesome it is that Jesus rose from the dead. Church was great fun as usual. We went from church to have lunch at Dad and Grace's house, then we had dinner with Steph and Jesse. We planned to try Green Peppercorn, the fancy Thai place in Fairfield, but the wait was 25 minutes long so we drove a few streets over to a place we call Pink Thai (I can never remember the name of it). I love Thai food so much and because it was a holiday weekend, I was happy to eat it and not worry about counting the calories.
Afterwards, we went home and hung out, packed a few things for our upcoming holiday, and then ate jelly and kinder surprise with Steph and Jesse.
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