Week 1 Day 2 - Saturday, May 16th

Written - May 17th

Ok Week 1 Day 2 (So Saturday, May 16th)

As I said in my last post we were up SO early due to a nice rain storm. That was how we figured the rest of our day would go. It had started earlier that night but it was about 5am when K joined us in bed, or me I should say.

We eventually got up and the boys did a trip to the washroom wearing their boots and rain coats. They loved it! Arnold took them down, and from what I understand it took a while. They were splashing in all the puddles.

By the time they came back (My post from there talks about it being 'late' at 7:20) Arnold and I headed out. We waved goodbye to the kids and booked it out of there and off to the house. As soon as we got there Arnold had some breakfast and I started some laundry. It was good timing. We then got a few things moved around and the loads to Steve's house ready to go (our youth pastor at our church is 'storing' our stuff (aka using it in his new place) until we find our own place). Once our friends, Karin and Shawn got to our house with their truck we headed off. Arnold and Shawn took over some stuff in the first load and Karin and I packed up the kitchen and visited. We managed to get alot done. Or what felt like alot.

By 10:45am we realized a few things we needed (our cover for our mattress was the wrong size so we needed the size up, as well as some other things for the house), and we all went our separate ways. Shawn and Steve (who came back after the last load) took the last load to Steve's house, Karin went out to exchange the bag for us and then off to her appointments, Arnold stayed at home and got some more stuff ready to go to the storage unit and brought it to the front room, and I finished up the packing of the kitchen and we moved alot of it to the front of the house or out to the van. It was perfect. Once Shawn got home with the empty truck we filled it up with a load of stuff to the storage unit and then hit up Canadian Tire and got a new shelving unit and then went out for lunch. By the time we got to our house it was about 1:30 or so. Karin came over after her things to do with the bag for the bed and the boys took it all over to the storage unit. Karin and I finished filling up our car and hers and she followed me out to the campsite. It was raining SO hard by then. In fact people on the highway were going like 50 or so instead of going 100km/h. It was getting annoying!

We got to the campsite and I had permission to bring them down to drop off some things then book it out of there. Karin came down with me and we quickly ducked into the 10x17 tent and waited out the big part of the rain (what we had just had on the highway) then we emptied her car. Her husband and mine showed up shortly after and we got the BBQ and a few other things off there. We said thanks (after giving them the tour) and off they went.

Arnold and I then spent a bit of time getting organized. I put up the 5 shelf unit and we put all of our kitchen things on there. My dad kept saying that we really needed to have Rubbermaid containers for the food cause the coons would get in it and other things. So eventually my mom said, enough! She sent Dad and Arnold to do a Canadian Tire run! They went out and got another 5 shelf, an extension cord (which will handle 'everything' (good thing Dad is an electrician)), and a few other things, including some containers for the food. It was perfect! They got back and we made the next set of shelves so that the containers fit in JUST and that worked out well for us. The first set of shelves we moved over for the toys and made some room.

DH then spent some time on the computer trying to find us a fridge without very much luck. He sent off a few e'mails but nothing seemed to help! We finally decided we were just going to buy one so then he had to do research to find one to buy you know how men are!

After that we just worked really hard to get everything set up and ready to go. It took us a while to get things worked into containers, cleaning out buckets of "throw this in there" and then we managed to get some ideas of where things should go. Good thing too! We sat down for supper in the "Bus" around 7pm or so and had a crock pot roast that mom made (2 actually) and some potatoes (as we forgot the carrots). Then for dessert it was angel food cake and some whipping cream and strawberries! SOOO good.

Right after supper we did another washroom trip without realizing the time. We should have gotten the boys to bring their tooth brushes but we didn't realize it was already 8pm! Quinton soon showed us the time by being so grumpy and we got them off to bed. My mom gave me 2 water bottles and we heated them up and put them in bed for the boys. It was a great idea. I'm going to knit up some covers for them so that they aren't excited about twisting the tops off and getting water everywhere.

Once they were down DH and I got ready for bed, did some interneting and off to lala land for us as well. We were so tired from working so hard that day.