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February 29th 2004

We did some shopping today and spent a lot more than we had originally intended...

	The kids picked out some really cool carpet that has roads and buildings all over it. We let them pick out whatever they wanted - which ended up costing about half of the price of the carpet that we bought for the rest of the entire bus...
	Under the new carpet we are putting some padding. The padding is water resistant on one side and has a kind of "memory foam" on the other. It's VERY nice to walk on and will add heat and sound insulation to the floor.
	It took us quite a while to get all of the floor padding in place. We ran out and had to go back to the store to pick up more toward the end of the job. It looks totally different in the bus with just the padding... I told Becky that it looks good with the curtains (basically the same sage green color) so I think she's planning to throw away all of the curtains now and replace them with something a little less hideous <grin>.
	We went back and forth about putting carpet in the bathroom... For obvious reasons carpet does not seem like a very good idea, but we would lose the insulating qualities of the padding if we put linoleum or something similar. We went ahead and put the padding in place and will try carpet for a little while. If it doesn't work out, we'll rip it all out and try something else.

That's about all we had time for today. Tomorrow we'll try to get the carpet in and start moving some of the things from the house into the bus. We're all anxious to get on the road...