Changes On The Wind

This past weekend, some noticeable changes began up at our Mountain Paradise, and I'm not strictly referring to the colors of the leaves. Also, it was an extremely busy weekend, filled with packing up, taking out, cleaning up and breaking down the trailer. Maybe it seems a bit early for that, seeing as the season doesn't end till nearly the end of next month, however, it really isn't early, because...

WE BOUGHT A NEW TRAILER!!!!!!
Okay, so it's not really a new one, it's used, a 2003 model, but it's new to us. I'll wait for next Monday to show it off to you, because it is being delivered to the campsite on Wednesday, and believe me I'll be taking lots of shots of it when we go up on Saturday. I really can't tell you how excited we all are. As I said above, it was really an exhaustingly busy weekend, but we got alot done, and got the pop-up cleaned out and towed out and dropped it off at the dealer last night. So our site went through some big changes. On Saturday, I helped G take down the carport we had covering the pop-up to give us added protection from the rain then took the kids out to lunch and shopping for a couple hours while he carefully disassembled our deck (so he can build a new one using the same boards)then cleaned the outside of the pop-up so it would be all shiny and nice.

Then, on Sunday, I had the pleasure of emptying out and cleaning the inside of the trailer. The emptying part wasn't too bad, although it would've gone more smoothly if my boy would've been a little more helpful, but what can you do. I guess it means he's a nearly ten years old. Cleaning was abominable, because it was hot inside the trailer, and it was just such a lot of work to do. I had to vaccuum down the whole trailer, the bunks, the insides of cabinets, everything. The vaccuum cleaner tore a hole in the mattress cover on the kids' bunk, and then when I had it on top of the counter top to help me reach the rest of their mattress, it fell off onto my leg and the brush gave me a horrible rug burn type thing on my leg that was all seeping and oozing and all that gross stuff (like a big blister with the top ripped off of it). At that point I broke down in tears, because the hole in the mattress cover (and G's reaction to it) and the hole in my leg happened within 10 minutes of each other, and I just couldn't handle it. I just said "I just don't know what I'm doing!" and broke down crying. At that moment, my darling friend Lisa from across the road came into the trailer. She saw I was crying and just said "What happend?" So, I swallowed back my tears and told her about the hole in the mattress cover and that G was upset (he didn't yell or anything, but I knew he was upset) and I told her about the vaccuum shredding me up and I showed it to her. So, she took charge of things. She told me not to worry about the rip in the mattress cover, because the dealer would probably be replacing that anyway. Then she very calmly told my son to go find the first aid kit, and she sat there and fixed up my injured leg as if I was four years old, which, at that moment, was exactly what I needed someone to do. She even blew on it when she cleaned it out so it wouldn't sting. Then she showed me the reason she'd stopped by. She had bought me some beautiful Jolee's stickers of trailers, one of which looks alot like our new one. She hugged me and said she'd be back to help me later and went outside to where G was watching the football game. She's an Eagles fan, and G has loved the Giants since I've known him. She asked if he wanted some company, and they watched the game together and he got all in a good mood from having someone to watch with and also because the Giants came back to win it, and then when the game was over, Lisa came back inside by me and said, "Okay, let's get this done." She helped me get everything finished till it was all shiny and ready to go. She's such a great friend, and both she and her husband, Tim, have been such a huge help to us up there. I don't know what we'd do without either of them.

So when Lisa and I were done with the cleaning, G started to close it up. We did have one more injury at that point because as G was pushing the bunks into the main part of the trailer in order to close it up, R decided to go inside and got his arm pinched when the bunk was pushed into it. G was pushing from the side, and the door is on the front, so he didn't know R had gone in. He pushed it in and R yells "Dad! Pull it back out! Pull it back out!!!" G said "Why?" R said "Because my arm is stuck in it!" Arrrgh! It looked painful (as I'm sure it was) but once we got home and the pinched up skin had smoothed itself back out, there was only a tiny scrape, so it was really no big deal.

Anyway, after the weekend of blood, sweat, and tears, we dropped it off Sunday night at the dealer and Monday G went back to the dealer and signed all the papers. They're still giving us the amount they said they would for the trade in, so I guess Lisa was right about the hole in the mattress not mattering. Sorry for the lack of photos, I promise I'll have bunches of them after next week, but I figured I'd better get this up here. There are, after all a few people who weren't told yet what we bought. But anyway, if you guessed a new trailer, you guessed right! Stay tuned till next time!