In the Beginning

It started like anything else in this family does...I wanted something. :) After traveling a bit in our new to us hybrid last summer i realized that it just was not big enough for us.  We are a family of 5; mom, dad, 3 energetic growing boys, one mellow Beagle and one hyper Golden. We won't even mention the other animals that don't travel with us...The hybrid was nice and also a long wanted item of mine, but the one we got was just too small. Our teenage son could barely fit on the couch and the other two would fall onto the floor if they even tried to sleep on it.  So all three of them slept on the queen bunk and my darling husband and I cuddled up in the double, with one of the dogs, while the other dog got the couch. While we were dry,warm and a little too close for comfort, we really couldn't afford to get anything bigger and refused to go back to our pop up days. We ended up finding this camper through a friend of ours that sells them as is, and usually with some kind of problem, but the price was right. So we hauled it home with a borrowed truck, backed it up and started wondering where to start.
This was the middle of January in New England, but hey we can handle it, and by we I mean my husband ;)
Now we know that there is water damage to at least part of the floor towards the back of the camper. We knew going into this that the floor would need replacing but boy did we underestimate what needed to be done! I didn't expect to get into this project until spring, but my husband had said on many occasions , i just want to rip up a piece to see what  I am dealing with, and so he did. Before the end of that day he had the couch, dinette and some of the floor under the couch ripped out.

You are probably wondering what kind of camper, how big?  Well she is a 25 foot KZ bunkouse camper with a 5 foot rear slide.  The one thing that caught my eye is the bunk room with the 4 bunks. The kids will have room to sleep (separately), play, and store all their clothes and toys.  Plus each bunk has a window, and as our 10 year old said "mom there are plugs in each bed so we can charge our DS's," he is officially hooked.