We packed up the house once again at the end of March and left around noon. We decided to drop our dog, Cha, off at the kennels yesterday, so we wouldn’t have to worry about her today. We headed into Queanbeyan where most of the volunteers were setting up camp for the night. We said our hello’s to everyone and set off to find one of the Canberra Australia hotels so we could spend one night in luxury, before we also would set up camp.

The next morning, we celebrated my eldest sons birthday in the privacy of our hotel room. Then went off to find the Exhibition Park in Canberra and register for the volunteer training session. EPIC was starting to come alive as the festival site with all the marquees and bunting hung up all over the park. We saw a large group of volunteers taking the customary ‘familiarisation’ walk around all the relevant sections of the ground. We joined up with them right when the free BBQ lunch was being provided.

After lunch, we then went to find our own camping site, one that would be away from the performers area. We usually camp in that area, but this year we didn’t want to deal with all the noise and all the people tramping through our site like last year. Since we plan to stay the whole nine days, we put up the annexe roof and made ourselves comfortable. We pegged out a small tarp that adjoined our spot with one of our friends tent, which we staked out for his tent when he arrives from Melbourne tomorrow.

Starting tomorrow, we have our first volunteer duties in stores. I’ve made plans to tour all my favorite shops. We’ve been participating in the Folk Festival for almost a decade now. The only difference this time around is that we are the volunteers instead of the performers.

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