Scamp and Travel Updates!

So here it is already June and I haven't blogged once.  I could say I was busy and I guess I was but still...no excuse!  I have been busy teaching and helping my hubby work on the Scamp.  Yep...we thought we had bought one that would require no work but buying things that we don't have to work on is not in the cards for us I guess.  It began by being given a lot of beautiful pieces of cork flooring by our son, Bryan.  When we took up the carpet, there was a soft spot in the floor.  Good time to replace the floor we thought.  Then we said the famous phrase, "As long as we are going to do..." Well, one thing turns into more and more things to do. SO we bought some new appliances because they were over 30 years old after all.  Pretty soon she looked like this...

And so...this is what we have been doing the last few moths besides working.  And visiting our sweet lil' grandson. And spending time with family and friends.  Yep.

Soon, Hubby became a master of many things like fiberglassing, wordworking, trailer electrical and plumbing, not to mention propane gas line installation.  Here is a picture of us camping at the Columbia Gorge that I have to keep in my thoughts when I begin to doubt why we are doing all of this.  In fact, it was this trip where we found we had something wrong with the tires.  Or brakes.  Or axle.  Hmmm....we replaced them all soon after this trip because, well, we had the floor out anyways and we didn't want our new floor to burn if they needed to weld a new axle in at a later date.  It was over 30 years old after all and you know how those things go.  At least for us!

Here he is, with our new fantastic fan and water tank in.  He is wiring in the new converter which was needed because we did not have one and the DC lights in the trailer would not work on the last trip, they just got dimmer and dimmer and finally went out.  Good thing we had electricity at the campground there was a nearby Walmart to get a little electric lamp!

So here is is, the end of June with school out and we are FINALLY getting things put back in.  We now have the appliances almost in and are getting ready to take it down a window company to see about getting new windows in the front and back.  

So the thought of being able to go Scamping again is super exciting and another exciting event will be my DIG field school trip with my sweet teacher friend, Jody, to Montana where we will learn to dig for fossils from experts from the University of Washington.  The place we are going to is Hell Creek  and there have been fossils of a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops found as well as fossils of other animals.  It is going to be another learning journey for me!  

Time to blog!

Oh my...so long since I have written here!  It seems once school begins, there isn't time to focus on anything else...except Scamping that is!  Back to September...I got my classroom ready for my lovely

 students (they love it when I call them that :-)

Here is a picture of our math workplaces!

Fast forward to December...here is a photo of the amazing artwork that my kids created after learning about the single line drawings of Picasso. We raffled it off at our school Winterfest celebration and it was a big hit!

In between planning and teaching, I had time for some fun with our little Scamp. We went to the coast for our second trip and had a great time with no mishaps!

We also took it out in January for a very chilly but fun beach trip.  This trip proved to be a bit more challenging though.  On our way over, we stopped a coffee stand and as we were leaving, we went over a speed bump and the trailer popped off the hitch!  Yes...it was locked but apparently the lock was not working.  As my hubby stood on the back bumper, I tried (in vain) to get it back on the ball but to no avail.  Luckily, a very nice man stopped on his way to work to help us and we got it back on.  On we went for a fun time at the ocean.  Needless to say, we now have a new hitch welded on that won't pop off.

I still love our little Scamp!