The Big Reveal - Father's Day

Wow what an adventure, my husband has super powers, we were thinking about what we were going to do with the kids between school and camp, and he suggested we get an RV and drive cross country to visit my family in Atlanta, GA, without hesitation I said YES!

Yes, I said RV, 40 feet, 3 slides, I think larger than our apartment!

In our minds the trip was a definite, and we told my family we were coming, we had a lot of leads but were not sure til last minute if it was going to work out.  The last few weeks were very "life thrown in our face," kind of days, always something out of left field, but luckily a weeks before we were due to leave on our road trip, a private RV owner was renting his out.  This is the best part, its the first time he rented it, was a bit nervous, liked my husband, is from Saudi Arabia, name is Mohammed, and his second wife is the driver.

Although my husband was a trucker for 10 years, and RV has many things about it that we are learning as we go.  The title of yesterdays blog was a few things that happened along the way...a shoe got stuck in the slide, a paper towel flew into our Shabbat Candles as we were lighting them, and on the final leg of our trip the sliding glass door to the closet in our bedroom slid off the rail (yes our bedroom with a queen size bed! my husband really hooked it up:)

Everyone that has seen the RV up close automatically said that they are scared to drive it, our neighbor said she wouldn't get behind the wheel for 4 million dollars.  I think that was one of the most amazing parts of our trip, I really got to see how my husband was in his trucking days.  This RV is monstrous, and only someone with the skills not only to drive it, but plan a route, and get cross country in 34 hours knows his stuff.  It was interesting to see him pace himself with his food, drink, and bathroom breaks.  The crazy thing was he didn't look tired at all during the 17 hour stretches.


We surprised my brother and parents by just pulling up in front of the house, and the best part is when my brother saw it, he questioned who could it be, but then with logical deductive reasoning he called my father and told him it had to be us.  My father still didn't believe it, and my mother kept on explaining how great our minivan was, they didn't know we sold it.  The universe was smiling down on us by providing the perfect parking spot.  My brother's driveway is literally just a little longer than our RV, even when he didn't know it was us for sure, he measured it all around.

We had an amazing father's day, just enjoying each other's company, and the best part is that the kids cannot get enough of each other, and that was the whole point.

Happy Summer,
Coach Yulia