July 8
Oh, I'm so embarrassed! Apparently, the trailer rocks and shakes when Thorin and I are having our private time! Well, we haven't managed to actually have much time together since we began the trip - but in the middle of a moment that we managed to steal after everyone else was in bed last night, Gimli came frantically knocking on our bedroom door, saying that he'd felt an earthquake or some such thing!
And, oh! What could we tell him? We said that it might just have been the wind shaking the trailer, and that he should just go back to sleep. But he didn't, and we had to calm him down, and it took us nearly an hour! Afterwards, the mood was well and truly ruined, of course.
But, Frodo and Fili and Kili never said anything about feeling the trailer shake; so maybe they slept through it, or maybe at least the elder boys knew what was going on and just didn't say anything. Either way, it is so embarrassing - though Thorin and I did have a bit of a nervous laugh about it! But I think that we'll have a difficult time from here on, keeping the trailer still, even if we do manage much more alone time, at all!