Oh! The stress with the lead up to Xmas!

How will Santa come visit us on the boat?
That was the problem that seemed to obsess our 7 yr old the most..........We assured her that we notified him we have moved and he knows how to find us on the boat.
With that taken care of, the rest of us big girls Destiny, Saraya and I prepared grocery shops and provisions for our departure and Xmas lunch cooking in our newly installed solar dome oven. Keeping in mind our brand spanking new 12 volt fridge had not arrived yet from Victoria and was expected any day now and I was assured it would get to us in time for Xmas. Xmas lunch is a stretch at anytime in a house but imagine trying to put on a feast for a family of five in the confines of a partly renovated boat. As it would have it everything takes much longer than you think and things were just not going to be ready for our departure for some little gorgeous Whitsunday island on Xmas day as planned, not even Boxing Day would we be ready. The plumber had still not received the part needed for the water system and something else has to done here and there. Mark was still cutting wholes in fibreglass inside the saloon making it near impossible to be comfortable in there without itching to bits. We seized up the vacuum cleaner far too many times, having to wait for it to cool down and re-consume its job again. We girls are still in the motel till Christmas Eve, thank goodness as I don’t think we could have coped living in that mess just yet.