Caravaning

This weekend we picked up our new moving house :) and we were so excited.

We dropped off the children at Grandma and Grandads and headed down to Flintshire to pick it up for 1030. The drive down was silent, hubby was nervous about driving with the caravan as he hadnt done it before and I was nervous about the prospect of actually owning a caravan (and nervous about him driving with a caravan for the first time)

When we got there we were showed around the caravan, how to do all the bits, showing us little tricks and giving us some helpful tips. The guy was really good, Clive, he spent 3 hours with us, answering all our questions and getting us hooked up to the car. Then we went inside and sorted out the last of the paper work and got it all transferred over to me. We had a wander around the shop, picked up little bits that we needed, we were able to swap alot of things that was originally in our contract because we had bought them already second hand which saved alot of money thankfully. And I was able to pick up a few decor bits and pieces to make it look a bit more homely.

Then we set off home.. it was a little daunting on the narrower roads, but I just closed my eyes to not react how I would normally and make a big deal over things that he had covered. It took us just over an hour to get home which was a good time and then we set about getting the caravan put away.

I wont go into detail with it, but the moving the van actually only took about 10 minutes, then we put all the locks on with a little struggle. Total time to get everything away and ready to leave was probably about 1.5hours.

Then we went to my dads for tea before bringing the children home. They saw the caravan out of their bedroom window and were so excited for the next day when they could have a play :)


And so our caravan adventure begins, insha'Allah it will bring us many memories in the future