Our big 'ol RV Adventure (Day 1)

EJ has always wanted to go on an RV trip.  Me, not so much.  I figured it would be tons of work.  I like to go on vacation and let other folks cook and clean for me.

The opportunity to travel to Sea Island, Georgia and stay in a resort for 4 days sounded very good to me.  However, I knew that no matter how we traveled it was going to be hard to transport 4 kiddos.  We decided against flying so we were planning to drive. 

Just a few weeks before the trip I started to get cold feet.  This was going to be hard enough with three wild boys but now we had a nursing baby.  Eeeek!

In a moment of weakness, I told EJ that perhaps we should rent an RV to make the travel a little less painful.  It would cut down on our bathroom breaks, etc.  By the end of that day, EJ had done all the research and was ready to sign us up.

So...welcome to our big 'ol RV trip of 2012!

We loaded up our three handsome boys and our sweet little princess and away we went.  Well, not exactly.  I planned and cooked and packed for a couple weeks.  Then EJ and I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning the night before loading the RV up with supplies.

Then, away we went!

I have never seen a man so happy about driving!  He was in rare form.  I joked with him that having a big sign on the RV that says, "1-800-RV4RENT" might as well say, "Drivers Ed."  People know for sure that you have no idea what you are doing!  You should have seen some of the looks we got on the road.

The cowboys thought the table was pretty cool.

Baby Sister was a happy little RVer.

Our first night was spent in Ennis, TX at a lake.  The view of the water was pretty and they had a swimming beach.  The boys loved swimming!

That first night was a little overwhelming.  Trying to get that many people settled in for bed in such a small space was crazy.  Not to mention that our hot water seemed to be broken.  Nice.  Cold showers.  I'm not going to lie.  I was close to tears a couple of times.  The good news: we all slept well and woke up ready to tackle day 2.

Of course, we had to make a trip by the camp "dump site" to empty the "black water" and "grey water".  I have learned that the black water is what comes from the toilet and the grey water is what comes from the shower and sinks.  I knew EJ was going to be the official dump master so I let him go to work while I made sure to photograph the experience.

The first thing he said, "this hose is broken!"  Turns out the clips on the hose had broken off so he had to hold the hose on there while everything emptied.  He said it was disgusting to feel the poo move through the hose.

Gross!

This is his tribute to the movie "RV".  Have you seen that one?  Let me just say there is a little mishap at the dump site.  It is a pretty entertaining movie.  Everything that could go wrong in an RV did.  We watched it before our trip and laughed our heads off.  Then we prayed that none of those things would happen to us!