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02.06.08
A quick trip to Shererville, Indiana in the morning,
and we saw the trailer
for the first time. It took a
few hours for the workshop at the RV dealership
to ‘fix’ a few bits that had
been overlooked and
then the huge task of ‘moving in’ began.
Every thing that had been stored in the
back of
the truck for the six months that the parents had
been back in NZ had to be unpacked and put
away in the
trailer. What a job. Storage in a
trailer is always at a premium so you have to
figure out exactly where everything
should go.
Then apparently you spend the next three
weeks moving everything to a better place.
As the license
tag (registration) for the trailer was
arriving by courier
the next morning we had to
spend our first night ‘camping’ in the
dealership yard.
Our first 'campsite'
Our little bathroom - looking in from the livingroom door.
The bedroom door is between the vanity
and the loo.
Dad and my bears. (I seem to have bought a few on this trip!)
A very bad photo of the living room with the kitchen just visible
to the right. Not long after this
was taken the table and bench
area where Mum is sitting magically turned into my very
comfortable bed!
The bedroomI was the privileged ‘first’ to
use the new loo.
Rather exciting really. This trip is really such a
great learning experience. I have learnt how
to
shower and wash my hair in such a way as
to conserve water. If I continue when I get
home our power bill is sure to
be halved!
I have also learnt to live with out a hairdryer
on those mornings that we are only on battery
power.
Mind you, it probably helps that the one
and only mirror in the trailer is rather small and
I can’t see how shocking
I look until we use a
public toilet facility later on in the day. By then
it’s too late, I don’t really
care.
Talking about toilets ….. well what can I say?
The loos here are really weird. The first
automatic
‘flusher’ I encountered gave me
such a fright I nearly needed to use it again
(immediately!). It’s very disconcerting to have
your loo flush all on it’s own
without even
asking if you’re ready. As for washing your
hands …… again, what can I say?
I‘ve
never seen so many different ways to turn
on a tap. In fact a couple have entirely stumped
me and I’ve had to
ask for help. Gosh, talk about
confusing (and embarrassing!)
…… and yup ……
there are even automatic taps that you just
wave your hands at!!
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