The day before we leave

I somehow thought we were ready, just throw in the food and our clothes, oh and the Grandkids and off we would go.    After shopping for the morning with the Grandkids for the food to put in the MH, and a bill that would joke a horse.   As the youngest one yells from the second floor of the Grocery store, as Poppy takes them to the washrooms.   “Gramma don’t forget to get Cherries”.   All eyes in the fruit and produce area turn to me.   What can you do but say, “Well I am Gramma, where are the cherries?”     Those wonderful people in that large grocery store, start looking for cherries for me.   Two little bags left, and there was no way I was paying what they wanted for those sad looking cherries.   He will never notice..right? 

My little list of say 60 to 80 dollars turned out to be 226 dollars of groceries.   Note to self, never shop with Grandchildren.   Of course we had to stop at McDonalds for breakfast burritos, you know they had to have them, and well we are Gramma and Poppy.    A quick stop at another grocery store, for bacon on sale, like that mattered after the grocery bill we just had…lol.    But I was smart enough to stay in the vehicle with the boys, and let Bob go in alone, you know he came out with more then the things he went in for.   We have a problem with grocery stores.

It is now 10 o’clock at night and we are finally cleaned up and sitting down for the night, that is right folks it took us all day, to put those few things in the motorhome that we had on our list, and the 100 other things we knew we just needed to have. 

We are still working on the water situation, I think we have water in the fresh water tank, although we really have no idea.   Were told there was an over flow and we would know when it was full.   No over flow, no sensor on the panel saying it is full.   It actually says it is empty.   There is water coming out of the taps and the pump is cycling on and off.   So do we have water, is there water, that is the question of the day.   People keep telling me there is a white fresh water tank, under our bed…no there is nothing under our bed, but more bedding and all the toys we have hid from Linden and Tyler.   We both laid under the MH and there is nothing white under there, rust colour yes, white no.    I am sure we will figure it out one day, but it is not today.    Tired and ready to call it a night.    As soon as the boys arrive in the morning, we will hit the road for our first long trip.   Wish us luck, hoping we will not need it, but I would like it anyway.

Our Maiden Voyage

What can I say about our first time out with the Motorhome.   Lots…lol.

We still have a lot to learn, but we are getting there. We have camped in a tent for 20 years at least, and can tell you the number of people that have come over and talked to us on one hand. (Nothing against tent campers, we were them) This weekend, we had a couple in a group, run down the road to us while we were backing into a spot and ask if we would like a lake front spot...well of course. They moved their cars and made room for us, helped us into the spot, then had us join them floating in the lake for drinks. We found out we know some of the same people...then on the other side they came over introduced themselves to us, asked us over for a drink and said to come over with any and all questions we had. Holy Moly, how nice.  and all. 

Each time we pushed a button, and something worked it was all thumbs up and high fives.  Ok so maybe the water is still a problem, but we are almost sure it is the operators and not the MH.   We are still only boondocking, so we just need to get all our systems worked out.  We will be putting in a new toilet and flooring in the bathroom, but I think that will be it for this year.    Next year perhaps a new air conditioner in the front.   Although it was so cool at night this trip that we snuggled into our comfy bed and listened to the wind crashing the waves against the shore, and the rain hitting the top of the MH and windows….lovely.   Even better yet, no leaks that we could find.

We will now talk about the radio, the multi CD changer, the fact that I cannot play CDs on our portable because of the vibrations while travelling.   That I had to walk to the back of the MH while on the road and get some tin foil…went old school on the portable radio and boosted the antenna with that…worked.     Our Radio is an old one, has a cassette player, and we are thinking the antenna is just tired on the roof.   The CD player works like a drive in speaker, you have to tune your radio to a certain station, we again come back to the fact that the radio installed in the MH sucks.  No problem the portable takes USB sticks.   I have to have my music.    

With all the above we had a great time, we set up our chairs had a drink and did none of the work or the complete shake down of stuff that we had planned.    We love it.

We leave again for 2 weeks with our grandchildren in one weeks time.   It cannot come soon enough for Bob and I.

Stay tuned for our adventures with 2 boys and boondocking again.

Surprise Linden and Tyler

The Motorhome is home from the mechanics and purring like a kitten.   We decided it was time to stop talking in code, and let the Grandkids know about their camping trip this year.   They stood on the front deck as this motorhome coming down the road started to turning into the driveway.   Linden yells Poppy is driving that, he starts to smile the biggest smile, he has figured it out.   Tyler, is more concerned that thing is not going to fit in the driveway…oh no it is over the sidewalk.    With his arms crossed over his chest he realizes he has been lied to, not happy about that, but only for a second and his face breaks into a smile when he too realizes this is ours…or Poppy’s and Gramma’s…lol.   Linden comes down the stairs poking his fingers at me, big smile…can we go in can we go in.   
In they go, running from one end to the other, looking for their beds….a big thing for them, where is our bed.   All the rest of the daycare children pour into the Motorhome.   Oh my.   What does this button do, how do you do this…we both yell, don’t push buttons.   We have no idea what they do.   After many questions, and many plans being made by the Grandkids we go to leave the MH.   Linden reaches up and pulls down a shade…as many times as we were in there, cleaning, inspecting things, we never saw that, down he pulls in a split second.   Oh what others buttons to push, things to pull are these boys going to find.
Later that evening they come back to the house and off to the Storage yard we go to put the MH there for a couple of days.    As I turn from unlocking the first gate to let the MH in, I look up and there lays Linden across the dash of the MH, like a big cat laying in the sun, smiling from ear to ear.   As I get to the back of the MH there is Tyler smiling and waving out the bedroom window.
We drove around the lot, through gates, backing up, through other gates as Poppy got lost, not once but twice in the storage yard, finding our parking place for the first time.   Me following in another Vehicle, wondering what is that man doing…lol.    It comes back to the house in a couple of days to load with food and personal things to go away for our first trip.   Just Bob and I for this first one.   Stay tuned for a report of our maiden Voyage…I am sure as newbies we will have lots to tell, or with any luck at all, nothing to tell.

Best laid plans

Canada Day today, and we had big plans for the Motorhome, we were going to hook up the water for the first time and see what happens.   Bob first started by cutting some limbs off a tree in the backyard, the neighbour came out they worked together on this little project, obviously no where near the MH.   A little more puttering, oh a thunder storm, some rain, we will just sit in the MH and listen to it rain for a bit.   We read some instruction stuff that came with it, ok Bob read I just sat and did nothing.   Finally I did work on the bedroom and toys and games for the Grandsons.   Needless to say after much puttering around we did not test the water.  But we did remove the recliner from the motorhome and will be putting the lazy boy recliner from the house in.  Not a bad looking chair, but not comfortable at all, so bye bye Chair.  

 All of the above, or the little bits of stuff above was accomplished with many dips into the pool to cool off.  We are a wild couple, and have decided to go to a campground for the first time, hook the water up and hope for the best.   Like I said we are a wild couple, like to live on the edge, keep things exciting…(NOT).   We are just in a lazy relaxed mood today, its Canada Day, time to reflect on this wonderful country we plan to travel across.  My that sounds nice, of course we were just not in the mood…lol. 
Thursday is a big day for our old girl, she has not yet passed her emissions test and safety.    I guess the water really can wait until she is legal to drive to a campground.
Today the owner of the storage area we are paying for called, to see if we had been in yet with the Motorhome.   He could not find any tire marks in our parking space.   Good thing too, as seems the guy that is next to us has some damage to his door.   Nope not us, not this time, we have been no where near the place.   Sad for the guy with the damage, happy for us.