Wednesday, June 22

OMG. I cannot believe we are a week away from embarking on our trip. I feel so unprepared. In fact, I’m feeling pretty terrified (censured for grandparental approval, hahaha, ugh. Can you tell I’m going squirrely?).

As our followers on Facebook already know, we took the van in for a general tune up last week. The mechanic has been so busy though, he’s not had a chance to look at it yet. He is doing us a favour, so I can’t blame him. By the way, our mechanic is AWESOME. If you live in Ottawa, make sure you use him: Mehdi Auto Service, 36 Bentley Ave, 613-727-0555. He’s super honest and very fair. He and his team are very friendly as well.

So anyway, haven’t had the van for a week and a bit now. We’ve purchased all the stuff to make it more habitable, but don’t actually have the vehicle to do any work on it! So frustrating!

Guess what I scored yesterday though? COUCH CUSHIONS! I went dumpster diving cause I saw these beautifully white, clean-looking, thick, comfy couch cushions just tossed in there like they were useless. But they will make a perfect mattress for our bed. And we’ll be able to top it with the memory foam mattress Julie and I got a week or two ago (only paid $70 for it and it was 2 weeks old. Sick deal huh?). As Julie said at the time, we’re never gonna want to get out of bed!


-Nicole