Cara is here! Cara is here!

Yeeee!!  So excited!!  We are no longer homeless!!

We were very excited yesterday to phone the seller of our new home and advise him that the funds transfer was complete and we were coming to collect Cara that afternoon.  We took him a little by surprise as we were a couple of days earlier than we had expected the pick up to be and had to wait when we all arrived for him to empty out his belongings.

However about an hour later we were driving away with our "house" having had instruction on all the ins and outs and how to's.

Cara is a 2006 Coromal Lifestyle 600.  She has triple bunks for the kids, a queen sized bed for us, stove top, grill, rangehood, microwave, large fridge, hot water to the kitchen, r/c air conditioning, built in stereo cd player, loads of storage space, comfy lounge and dining table.  She is a lovely pale timber veneer colour with navy trim and pale blue curtains.  Cara also has a large roll out awning and full annexe.  Lots of space for a family of five.

The kids were very excited to get Cara back to Grandma and Pa's.  They had to check out all the cupboards and hidey holes.  There was the expected debate over whose bunk was whose, and the demands for the beds to be made IMMEDIATELY so they could be tested out that night.  So make the beds we did, and we all slept our first night in Cara in the driveway.

Today was "moving in" day.  We did a trip up to our storage container to retrieve all the belongings we thought we would need.  A trailer full.  Add that to the trailer full that we had already taken to Grandma and Pa's and we were starting to wonder just how we would manage to fit everything in!  We unanimously agreed that all the external stuff would be hubby's domain and all the inside stuff would be mine.  Much like a real house in which I take care of kitchen and bedrooms and hubby takes care of the shed and yard.  We just have a much smaller "shed" now (in fact it is so small that the tool box wont fit in!), and our yard is the size of Australia (lucky he doesn't have to mow that!).  I spent the day pottering about, deciding what would go where, and trying to jam all our clothes into a very, very small space.  In fact I think the sum total of the wardrobe space in Cara is still smaller than my personal wardrobe space in our old house.  For a person who has somewhat of a clothes fetish this is quite alarming, and has been the cause of several minor panic attacks in the past few months.  Anyway, Cara is now loaded, the kids are super happy that they have their own bedding (and just quietly, given the son of a gun job it was to make the beds, I may not change the sheets again until we stop travelling!!).  Everything is in, I know where it all is, now it's time to start using it.