Desert project

As some of you may recall a few posts back there was the photo of our new vehicle, the orange ambulance that Tim called "Sharky" as there was a painted shark on the side.
Sharky was initially bought for a 3 week project that saw half a dozen or so performers head off into the Central Desert of Aust to work with the kids on an Aboriginal mission in remote northern West Australia to teach them circus and performance skills.
Here they are all loaded up about to leave our place.

Well unfortunately the unthinkable happened and the vehicle was rolled, luckily they all walked away, well Tim crawled initially but was lucky that nothing serious was amiss.
Here's Callan, our son retrieving their belongings the next morning before looters got to it.

Two very dejected but lucky to be alive guys,
so much blood, sweat and tears AND DOLLARS had gone into this vehicle

Tim's very impressive bruising, this was the day after so I can only imagine how more interesting it got as it spread over time.

So I hope you will forgive me for being away from blogging but it has been a logistical nightmare and very stressful to try to sort out how to get them home and the insurance side of things, as I couldn't make the lady on the phone understand that the vehicle was not anywhere that they could get a tow truck to to retrieve it to be assessed she kept asking for the closest cross street, they don't retrieve them out there they just get left on the side of the road, I eventually got someone who actually listened to what I was saying.
Anyway, they fly home on Monday so I will feel much better once I have them home here for a while.