Our First Home

Yep. It's true. This is officially our first home. We have always rented since we've been married. Let's be honest- we live in Victoria which is the land of incredibly expensive real estate. $400,000 for a 3 bedroom starter home? Let's not and say we did. For real though, we have been married for 8.5 years, and I've been a stay at home mama for 7 of those. Matt was a student for 4 of them- realistically even living in a much cheaper place, it wasn't going to happen.

But that's ok. It really hasn't bothered us too much. We always knew we wanted to do something big and grand before we "settled down"- if being married and having 3 kids doesn't count as settling down. Because in my books, it doesn't have to.

We have told several people that we consider out RV to be our first home. Some people think we're joking, and some have even expressed that they found it sad, but not to worry because they're sure we'll own a home one day. Whatevs. This was totally planned. And we think it's awesome. Really, we consider it a blessing that we have this amazing chance of a lifetime to show our children so much of North America. Doing schoolwork at picnic tables is pretty fun when you're a kid.  And as my 7 year old pointed out, we can pretty much just skip over the whole Social Studies section of school- because we will be totally immersed in it.

So. Anyway. After our disappointing search of the island for a decent motorhome, we journeyed to the mainland to see what we could see. We drove all over Surrey and Maple Ridge but were still not excited about any of the units we were seeing. So we went to Hope (which, to be perfectly honest is not actually THAT far, but people seem to think it is.) to look at one last motorhome.

And this was it. We were so excited about it, we brought it home that same day. It's a 31 foot Thor Ambassador and it's perfect. Well, other than the "I love retirement living" bumper sticker. But maybe we'll cover that up with a Disneyland one or something. Or a deathly hallow symbol. I'd totally get on board with that.

Of course the kids were giddy and now they just call it "Thor". And by they,  I mean all of us. Because that's a pretty rad name for a motorhome. So now, with 7 weeks to the day until we leave, it's time to get all of our ....everything.... in order. With just a few tweaks to Thor, like a new TV, new stereo (do people even have cassettes any more?) and a microwave, we should be on our way!

PS...When you have a very large motorhome and want to take your kids on a little drive so they can check it out, might I suggest avoiding Quadra street all together. 4 inches of clearance on either side does not make a relaxing drive. Trust me.