Off to Centralia this morning to do "problem resolution". It's a pretty day and we had breakfast outside while we decided what problem to resolve today! We measured the Jeep's back seat and then went to find a box we can pack it in to ship home. Ken found a Uhaul office and they have a large wardrobe box that we think will fit the seat. Getting the box was no big deal - getting it into the back of the Jeep was interesting.... We shoved it through the back and up over our heads and off we went back to camp.
People have been really helpful here and we learned the US Post Office would ship our box if it was 70 lbs and 108 inches in girth and length. Ok, now it's time to do some packaging... Getting the seat out of the Jeep was easy. Now we had to figure out how much it weighed. Ken had noticed a bathroom scale in the club house so we drove over and he brought the scale out to the parking lot. We balanced the seat on the scale (oh ya the scale was missing a foot) so we thought the seat weighed 70 lbs. Hmm how much over will the box make us?
Oh by the way, everyone in the park is wondering what in the world these wacky people from New Hampshire are doing.... Back at the picnic table we slid the seat into the box and proceeded to cut and tape the box like patch work to make it fit the post office demensions. We hoped by cutting the box down we had trimmed the weight enough... Off to the post office and put it on the scale - yep a whopping 73 lbs. Nope they couldn't ship it... so we put it back in the Jeep. The guy in the post office told us where the UPS office was so off we went. Ken put the box on a dolly and took it in (I locked the doors, that box was not coming back!). Yea they took it and for less than the post office.
We went back to camp, celebrated, watched TV and then went to bed.
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