poplar road

Here we are just about to set out in the pouring rain with most of our wordly possessions stuffed in the camper, canopy, and trailer. And it took less than 4 hours!

We arrived in Kamloops at about midnight, a full four-hour trip from Burnaby loaded down as we were. Everyone was exhausted, so we put Ben and Chris up in a hotel for the night, and Richard and I arrived at the house at 12:30am. After a rocky night’s sleep in Richard’s trailer we were up early, ready to start unloading stuff into the garage. (The plan was to remove all the carpeting in the house, so we didn’t want to put furniture or boxes anywhere that might interfere with that task.) However, the garage was full of the previous owner’s junk and garbage, so we spent an hour or so cleaning it out while we waited for the twins to join us.

Once we got moving, we had all three vehicles unloaded in an hour and a half. I was amazed... even the boxes which had made an obstacle course of our apartment seemed to disappear into the second spare bedroom, and the main garage had more than enough room for the furniture after we loaded all the tools, sports equipment, Christmas lights and other stuff onto the existing shelving.

The camper fit on the concrete pad in the back yard, and of course Rob had dropped off Mechano on its trailer in the back next to the barn. I wandered around taking pictures, and then we moved the couch and camp chairs onto the front lawn for a lunch break. It was cool and windy but the sun kept coming back, and despite lack of sleep we were ready to tackle the next step of making ourselves at home: the renovations.