On the Road Again

For the past week John and I have been in Missouri working claims. Yeah! It's been a great chance to check out the new camper and see how we'll do when its on a much larger scale. We've had a few hiccups, but we love it! I will say my RV camp ground site picking leaves a little to be desired. We are in downtown which was convenient to the claims, but we are in a big concrete lot with the next trailer about 2' from us. No room this time for our canopy and my very fun party lights.

We started off the trip about 4 hours behind schedule, no big deal. We made it about 2 miles when we decided we needed to pull over and re-check (for like the 10th time) we were hooked up correctly. This is when John put his cell phone on the bumper of the truck only to be discovered when for stopped for gas in Illinois, about 4.5 hours later! I'm not joking, this picture is exactly how we found it!


Fast forward to our arrival. I decide to help John with the set up since this was the first time we've done this on our own, so I put Maddie down on the couch in the camper so I'd have my hands free. We were working on the opposite of the camper as the door so being the good mom I am, I shut the door so no one could just walk by and snatch her. As soon as I slammed it shut, I checked it to make sure it didn't lock because the last thing I looked at before laying her down were the door keys on the INSIDE of the camper. Well, it did lock and I proceeded to FREAK out! I went running around trying all the windows, John crawled into the storage hatch, but we didn't know how to actually open it to the inside and just as I was about to put a rock through the window our neighbor ambled over and told us to pick the lock with a screwdriver. So John came to the rescue and got her out. Thankfully all this unfolded in about 3minutes, but they were a long 3 minutes. And note to self, it is super easy to pick the lock, so always turn the deadbolt! After that, we seem to be adjusting well. Maddie is a "happy camper" and has slept through the night the past two nights. Yeah!

Hanging in "Maddie's Room"

The Reason she is sleeping through the night...She figured out how to suck her thumb! I'll take it, and worry about bad habits later.