Week 8 Day 3 - Sunday, July 5th - Church and Computers!

Sunday July 5th
We got up this morning and had a nice relaxed breakfast. Arnold and I talked a lot about the house we saw the night before and decided it was the one we wanted. We did have a few more places lined up and checked out more places online to see what we could find.

We headed out to church kind of early since Arnold had to do sound at church. I went downstairs and sat with the boys in the nursery and read a book. During church Arnold did sound upstairs and I sat downstairs with some friends of ours for church.

After church we went to Wal-Mart and got some oven roasted chicken and wraps and a few other things and brought them with us to Kristina’s house.

When Arnold got the computer from the shop on Friday he also had them give him the old hard drive so he could try and get the photos off of it, heck everything off of it. I had backed up on the 15th of June but I normally do it on the 1st and the 15th and since it was a few days before the 15th it didn’t work so well. (Note to self maybe look into getting something that will automatically back it up)

So we went to Kristina’s house and Arnold and Tim tried to use the new toy Tim has to get the information off the hard drive. Kristina and I got lunch ready for the kids and adults. We fed the kids while the boys played with the hard drive.

We hung out there and did another load of laundry (the stuff from the line that was wet) and eventually called it quits with my old hard drive. I lost all my photos from those days. That is so hard to totally understand. I’m very sad about it but I guess it’s my own fault. I have to remember that I need to update more I guess.

We brought the boys home late and they had a bit of a nap in the car while Arnold and I did some organizing of our stuff. We needed to get things a bit more moved around so we could fit more in the trailer, that and deal with the rest of the waterproofing.

We took a bit of a break and watched the van while the boys were sleeping and checked out some new house listing and talked a lot more about the house we saw. After we left Kristina’s house we did drive by it and want to check it out, or at least peak in the windows but when we got there someone else was looking at it with him. Decided that this was the house we wanted. Arnold called the agent and asked what happen next to make sure we could rent it. He told Arnold what he needed and we went to work getting everything (a credit rating and a letter of employment from Arnold’s work).

We had an early supper and then Arnold went off to the church again. He was doing the sound for the Wall service. I stayed out watching the boys and reading a book I got from the library (Karen Kingsbury is a GREAT Christian author, I recommend her to anyone). While I was reading I let Kyler go around the circle with a ‘friend’ (aka another child camper from another site). They did ok a few times then I realized it was taking a bit longer to come back to me. I was looking around and I couldn’t seem him. I called and called and called and no answer. I could see his ‘friend’s’ site from ours and I looked to see if her parents were worried but they didn’t seem to care. I started to freak out a bit more. Q and I went running through the park to find him and just as we past the dumpsters by the turn to our road he came down. I sent him right back to the trailer to sit there and wait until I got back. It turns out that he was following his friend to the bathrooms to go pee. We had to have a LONG talk about what is ok to do without telling mommy and what is not ok to do. This was on the NOT ok to do list. I eventually let him go back and play (after a 10 minute time out) and he listened this time. The little girl had to go back home and have supper so Kyler and Quinton started to have races up and down our road.






















After their last race Kyler went across the road and got some left over wood from another campsite. He wanted to do our normal pick up but Daddy wasn’t there to do it with him. Isn’t he cute?








After we cleaned up all our toys and such we went inside and watched a new movie we got from the church Library (we have yet to ‘rent’ a movie and pay for it this summer). We had some snacks on the bed and chilled out.







I stayed up until Arnold got home from doing sound (close to 11pm) reading my book. I finished a book and a half on Sunday. They are really so good!

Week 8 Day 1 - Friday, July 3rd - Laundry!

Today was laundry day! The boys and I headed out early in the morning, ok so around 9am, and went and started our laundry. I brought the camera so we could play around upstairs and I could get some good shots of them, that and I had nothing else to do (since the computer was still in the shop). On our way up to do the laundry I thought I would get a shot of one of the bigger trailers Arnold and I have seen. This guy is from Alberta. He is doing some work here and brought his rig along so he could have his own ‘home on the road’.



Not a good one, since he was leaving, but one none the less.

Then we got up and started the laundry. I sat on the bench and watched the boys play. Kyler was teaching Q how to slide down the railings of the slide:





While I was flipping and folding the laundry Kyler took his chance at the camera:









It was a good idea to get our laundry done first thing since it decided to rain a bit! Man did it come down(while I had our last load on the line):




Arnold brought my computer home when he came. He had the car in the shop to get an oil change and check out a few codes we were getting. Everything came back a-ok so we are good for a bit more at least.

I spent the rest of the night working on the computer and Arnold went to the neighbours campsite and had a campfire with them. I had to text him around 10:30 or so and tell him to bring the kiddos home!

It was a good day. Hard because there was no computer to use but it worked out ok in the end I guess. We got lots done!

Week 7 Day 7 - Thursday, July 2nd - Running around

We spent most of this day getting randomness done! Over the whole day we managed to:

1 - Bring some mail to Arnold during his commute (in order to get the metro pass again he had to bring in something that had his new sticker on it for mailing purposes). We had everything laying out the night before but he totally forgot to bring it with him. So I got the boys up super early and headed out to meet Arnold with the mail. We met up at Victoria Park and Eglinton. The boys gave him the mail and we were off again.

2 - We brought the computer to the shop. We got there just as they were opening and really stressed to the guy that we needed the computer ASAP since it is my 'company machine'. Now there is NO lying there. It is my company machine, BUT my company isn't using it that much this summer. Oh well. By the end of the day there was someone working on it so that made me feel good.

3 - We drove to the zoo right after dropping it off. We made it in some seriously good time as well, all things considered I got lost! I know I know I go every week and I got lost! I figured I would save the time of going south then back up north so I just kept going and thought I would eventually find the normal road. No matter how much Arnold told me to get off one road earlier I figured it was just a bunch of houses I could totally do it! Nope not at all. I ended up on the phone getting directions with Arnold. Thankgoodness we found out some good news and his new phone had come in earlier that morning. He at least had a secure phone that wouldn't cut out on him at all. After about 5 minutes of driving around we got there! There were no buses today so we got to park in our normal summer spot.

We went to the gate and I had to use my renewal pass information since I didnt' have my new pass yet. We did a few random things around the zoo then stopped for an early lunch. The boys got stuff from Harveys and I got something from the 'food on the go' group beside them, I was thinking healthy lunch... it was SOOO Gross. Next time not ordering from there! We had lunch and wondered around a bit more and took the train again (we did it as soon as we got there as well). All in all a good morning. I think the reason it wasn't as busy as we thought was because the weather was not good. We did have fun thought

4 - Went right home after the zoo and the boys gave me a few moments of peace as they were sleeping in the van. It worked out to the best, Thank you God, because the water had found a way into the trailer and soaked everything where the bed would have been. It was all over the wood flooring. It had soaked the clothes that were there, any towels and such. But the worst of all was a cardboard box. The box was not a big deal but what was inside and beside was the kicker. Every single book we had at the campsite (including some of the books that were from the Church Library) as well as all our DVDs. Everything was soaked. I spent the next hour bringing it all into the RT (which was really wet as well) and putting them on the table and turning the fan on. Even today( almost a week later) some of them are still wet and have mould. They will have to be thrown out. What I couldn't understand is why things were wet in the RT. I was really surprised. Then looking at the grass I figured it out.

There is a 'forest' behind us that is on a slant. Somehow the water came rushing down it (there must have been some serious rain while we were at the zoo) and went right down any path it had. It turns out that the path of least resistance is right into our campsite. It went from the back of the lot, past the fire pit, throught the middle into a low spot then up infront of the trailer and RT and right down the little slant the RT is on and out into a HUGE puddle in the next site over. It was bad. Arnold had talked to someone who was here during it all and he said there was about 6 to 7 inches of water going through his site as well. Anything under the 6 to 7 inches is wet, like SOAKING wet in our RT.

The boys and I spent the next little bit doing some laundry. Once they woke up. I did some more work around the site cleaning up and dealing with the water and it looked alot better by the time Arnold got home from work.

5 - When Arnold got home we dealt with everything from the day and just chilled.