It all started with one little, silly thought...

I really need to think things through a little bit more.  My husband spend a week during December of 2011 in Florida looking at an apartment complex that he had under contact to buy.  He and his business partners decided to buy it, and I think I'm happy they did.  Around Christmas time Trent was walking past me in the house and a thought popped into my head that I then said out loud. "Hey!  Wouldn't it be great if there was an available unit this Summer?  We could fly out to Florida and stay in one for a month or so!"  Trent didn't even stop walking, he just said, "Hopefully we don't have any vacancies."

I wasn't really thinking seriously when I made the comment.  Really, what was I going to do with a family of four and an empty apartment.  As in, NO FURNITURE!  Let alone all the things you might like to have to entertain two boys for an entire month (two boys of very different ages).  I'd have to get airbeds and linens and pots and knives and a card table and beanbags and.....so when Trent blew it off, I didn't mind.

Then...a couple days later Trent says in passing, "You know, that's would kind of be fun.  I'll have to think about it."  

After a couple more days he says, "Instead of flying, we could drive and see the country.  There is so much of it we haven't seen."  

 Then a few days later, "Why don't we drive the truck; we'll take the trailer and camp along the way."  

This was quickly becoming a summer long trip instead of a month.  By this time I was starting to have a hard time sleeping.  Our trailer is 19 feet long and although it has a bed, it's a glorified twin.  Then the dinette has to be changed morning and night so the boys have a place to sleep.  There isn't any counter top space in the kitchen.  And I could go on and on and on.  I was staying awake thinking of all the problems with living in 19 feet for a whole summer. I started to wonder what I'd gotten into!

I finally told Trent I wasn't too keen on the idea of the trailer and why.  He then told me he had been looking for a new trailer.  (We'd bought a truck three years ago in preparation for a larger trailer-a toy hauler.)  This helped relieve my anxiety and we started to look together for a trailer.  We have a large extra garage and Trent was not going to buy something unless it could fit in the garage.  One bay is deeper than the rest, but had the shortest door on it.  We'd have to raise the door as far as we could, but even with the new height we were having a hard time finding a toy hauler that would fit.  We tried to find something in the 2009-2010 range but they were all taller than we could do.  We finally found a new 2011 at a dealer in California that would fit and made arrangements to pick it up during Spring Break, but that's another story...