Thursday 28 January 2016

Welcoming Mandy to the family




So here she is: Mandy! Now officially ours. Now we just have to put up with the kids asking every single night if we can sleep in the camper van. Well she does have auxiliary heating but I don't think we'll be making our first overnight stay for a few months yet.

The van has the high-top roof we wanted. It's actually a good compromise for us as we wanted a van we could drive every day but realised how tight space might be in a California travelling with the four of us and only having a pop-top. The roof on ours is a bit low, so not sure the kids will be sleeping up there for long, but on the upside as Mandy is a Multivan the bed is almost as big as ours at home once folded out, and most nights we end up with one or both of them squeezing between us at some point in the night. The other upside is regardless of where anyone is sleeping, or not as the case may be, this kind of roof gives us loads of extra storage space. This means we can shove all duvets, sleeping bags and alike uptop and still have moving about and breathing space downstairs.

Anyways I have ordered a custom size piece of foam to fit in the roof bit for the kids to sleep on. I'll make a cover or two once it arrives, as the ones on the website were extortionate :)

We didn't actually let Lyra drive, though as in most situations this doesn't stop her thinking she's in charge.

And call it karma if you wish, but the van has heated seats and mine (generally passenger) is the only one that works. This makes looking out the window at all the snow just twice as nice.



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