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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Movin' into the Motorhome!

Okay, I am starting my blog by telling everyone about our move into the motorhome. First I will tell you that we did this by choice and because we think this will be a great adventure for us.
The move starts on a Sunday, we started taking stuff out of our house and into the "bus." It took us a few days, but we got it to were we could sleep out there. We were still figuring out the heat, so it was a little chilly the first night. On Wednesday I went to Idaho and Rich had to work a lot, so we ignored the bus for three days...and that is where it started.
When I came back we moved more stuff in and we noticed tons of things were wrong. So with our mattress and everything in there, the RV company had to come pick it up and take it 60 miles away to their shop. They spent all day working on her, and when they brought it back they told us it was all frozen and that was causing our problems. Well that night the carbon monoxide monitor went off while we were watching tv. Luckily we were still sleeping outside of our rental house so we just left it going off and went and slept on the couch.
The next morning we headed for the RV Park. It was about 8 degrees when we began the morning of the 24th. We got her all backed in and jacks down and the slides are out and we are hooked up to the sewer, then it gets bad. We are freezing and I had already been to the store three times to get the right hoses and attachments. We spent 3 hours taping an electric hose warmer to the hose and then we find out that the pipe we need to hook up to for water is broken. The staff here tells us that we are going to have to move to another area until they can get the pipe fixed in the spring.
We pull the slides in and jacks up and everything else and start over. It is now 2PM and we started at 8AM and I am headed to wal-mart for the fourth time. At about 4 we get hooked up to water and by the time we got into the bus to test it, everything was frozen. We pretty much wasted our time.
Two days later on Sunday night at midnight we finally got thawed water and now we are doing well. Everything seems to be going just right for now.
Today, I finished cleaning out our rental house and now we can finally move forward in our new adventure. Hopefully Murphy's Law will go on vacation from us for a while! It has been a long two weeks.
Sorry its long but thanks for reading!

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