Thursday, October 21 - Moving day

 

Well its 8pm and we are finally all moved into our new home and nothing fits the way it did in our Montana.

Our day started early again. I took the boys to the groomers at 8am, while Jesse walked over to the service department to find out about hooking the satellite to the TV's.

We have too much stuff and we really need to weed through and get rid of things we don't really need.

We did our walk through at 1pm and the guy was very nice and showed us whatever we asked him to. Having already owned a Keystone 5th wheel there really wasn't a lot of things he needed to show us.

We then went over to sign all the papers, and now the 2011 Keystone Alpine 3640RL is officially ours.

After returning to the RV's the guys showed up to move the washer and help Jesse move the bed.

I warmed some leftovers, we watched a little TV and then went to bed..exhausted.

Wednesday, October 20 - Whirlwind of Activity

 

I will start with Wednesday. We were up early and had our coffee.

I got showered and dressed incase they called us to the service department.

We are going to have our washer/dryer combo installed in the Alpine and we are also going to have our airbed swapped out for the mattress in the new unit.

I made us some breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast.

Jesse had an appointment at 8am to have the new Husky 16,000 pound hitch installed on our existing Reese rails. It only took them about 1 hour to complete the switch.

They gave us the old hitch so Jesse thought it would be a good idea to take it to a scrap metal place and sell it.

Well it probably cost him more in fuel, because he only got $5.75 for the 80 pound hitch. While he was out he got the truck washed.

While he was gone I continued to go through our things to straighten and organize.

I can not believe all the stuff we have. We are definitely going to have to get rid of some things.

Around 3pm we went to Walmart to pick up a few items we needed and to exchange the slippers I bought the other day.

After Walmart we went to Longhorn Steakhouse for dinner.

When we returned we stopped in to talk to Eddie, our salesman. He said we could start to move some of our things in the alpine if we wanted.

So we got busy and moved all the cabinets in the living room to our new home. I was pleased that all the stuff fit with room to spare.

We worked about 1 1/2 hours and were pleased with our progress.

We will continue the rest tomorrow.

Tuesday, October 19 - Parked at Holman's

Here we are parked in the parking lot at the dealership.

We have 50 amps and we filled our water tank. It certainly isn't the quietest place to stay, but it is free and we are here to watch all the steps needed to get our new home ready.

The campground where we had planed to stay is about 40 minutes away so this way we are right on top of things.

We went to visit our new home this morning while it was still on the lot. We wanted to do some measuring, here are a few pictures

Our measuring was not the best news. We had planned to switch out our recliners with the new ones, but ours don't fit. The area in the back with the rocker recliners is smaller then the Montana's, by about 6 inches. Therefore they won't fit when the slides are in. We measured the sofa to place there and it also is too big for the space.

So we are really bummed out. We have been thinking about just having the 4 recliners and no sofa, but we were looking forward to having a sofa again. It will be very nice to have something convenient to sleep on when the grandchildren come to visit. Of course we can just get an air bed to use when that happens.

Some feedback from everyone would be gladly accepted.

We went to Panera Bread for lunch and I made turkey burgers for dinner.