Wisconsin

We finally bought a camper!!! We have been watching ebay for the last month or so looking for one we liked. We bid on a few but didn’t get them. I have to admit that it took us awhile to figure the whole bidding thing out!!  Anyway, we finally got one that we liked and for a decent price!! The only catch was that we had to go to Wisconsin to pick it up!!!

Auntie Candace graciously offered to take the kids while Chad and I made a rushed trip down there. Thank God we had a friend that had bought campers down there before. He gave us the list of things we needed to do to bring it back. It actually wasn’t that hard. We left on Thursday at noon and drove as far as St. Pau, MN. There is some beautiful country down there…. a Target every 1/2 hour!! We were glad to get to our hotel that night. I think it took us 5 minutes to check in and fall asleep. I am surprised I could sleep after the experience of driving on the interstate through Minneapolis!! I got to dream about driving through that again but this time with a camper!!!  And evil Chad, he wouldn’t let me stop at the mall of America!! I did get him to stop at Target in Grand Forks for 1/2 hour! I was a happy girl.

We got up at six and left for Colby, Wisconsin. The country was really beautiful! We had to spend an hour faxing papers back and forth to get temporary registration on the trailer! That was the hardest part of the trip!! I hate waiting. We started for home at 12:30. The only problem we had was in Minneapolis, when we stopped to grease the hubs.  The brand new grease gun got stuck on a nipple and pulled it out. You should have seen the look on Chad’s face! He just kept saying “I can’t believe this!” ” Carla, I can’t believe this!” It would have been funny if I didn’t actually think we might be screwed! After 45 minutes, 100 swears and Chad just about shooting me with the grease gun, we finally got it out! The rest of the trip was smooth sailing.

 Gatlin loves the camper and made Chad sleep with him in it the first night. It is cleaned and loaded and ready for camping.

Countryfest

Well, we survived an other year at Countryfest…but just barely! We have decided that we may be getting a little too old to keep up with the young kids. We still managed to go through a respectable amount of Bud Light and a few bottles of wine. Chad put on the usual show, flirting with any female from 8 to 80!

The music was great! Blake and I showed our age rockin’ out to Nazareth!! We took Gatlin in one afternoon to watch the dirtbike show. He loved it. Although it might have had something to do with all of the girls in bikinis. He got a bit of an education!! The guys happily took Ripleigh(Vicki & Mike’s dog) and Gatlin for a walk around the campground. Apparently, dogs and kids are good bait for girls!!

We did learn some valuable lessons.. look around for the party tent before you set up camp, if you let your neighbours use your generator they will feed you all weekend, girls will wear bikinis even if it is freezing out, burning couches attract huge crowds, and guys in cowboy hats and depends don’t look good.