Day off

Wow - really enjoyed today. The definition of a day off is a bit vauge. We've thoroughly enjoyed just pottering around with nothing else to do. Meals will form the basis for our blog post:

Breakfast: Pan toasted Turkish bread. Buttered and spread with Vegemite! Packet caramel latte's gave a frothy start to the dull day.
-Read for an hour (damn book is nearly finished)
-Washed winch rope. It had lots of accumulated mud in the fibres, so it was cathartic to wash it. Then I hooked it to a tree and wrung it out by winching the car to it. It was a good opportunity to give it all a good run and make sure it works before we need it... meh lame excuse but what else was I going to do?
-Documented the positions of the winch clutch levers because the operation of them can be confusing as they can flap both ways which makes the diagrams incorrect. 
Lunch: Cereal with chopped banana
-Watched some telly - new episode of The Office with that weird CEO. I'm struggling to find him funny at all, just creepy and highly annoying.
-An old fisherman walked past, seemed happy - loved Russia.

Afternoon tea: Tea with chicken flavoured potato chips and m&m's.
-Fog developed engulfing our beach and all water - eerie.
-Tried calling my brother (left voicemail) to tell him I was standing up to my chest in Lake Baikal looking at the fish. In truth, I don't think I've really seen fish, but no doubt they are there. Plenty of recreational fishing boats.
-Cassie washed her jeans
-We both washed our hair
-I had a shave
-Re-tightened the kitchen unit
-Dried out one of the roof boxes. Not sure why but only one of them leaks very occasionally. The intermittent nature of the fault makes it difficult to diagnose - not sure if the rope gets caught in the seal or something?
-Sun came out - nice and hot again.

Dinner: Some interesting wet shaker bag marinade with beef strips. We threw in finely sliced potato and a pretty ordinary carrot to give it some more oomf. We only had about half of the meat the packet suggested so the potato and carrot should do nicely. Rice added to make it go further - should have leftovers.
-Watching schools of fish jump at the surface perhaps being hunted by something hungry.

We feel like we're all refreshed and excited to be taking off into our next bit of the adventure. Everything is now clean, tidy and ready to roll! We may not make a post tomorrow night as we are likely to be at the Russian/Mongolian border.