We are celebrating something orange, which is the national colour of the Netherlands. This is why I suggest to make 12 April an official holiday! The painting of our van is finally completed and GOD, she looks nice! The body is ready to go home where we can start rebuilding the bus. Our biggest point of concerns is that we will have to be very careful transporting the body back to our garage without damaging it!
Luckily the distance between the spay painter and Hazel Armstrong’s home is not more than one kilometre at crow-fly distance. Still, I was amazed how much energy it costs to transport this massive piece of metal on castor wheels over coble stones and curb stones. Basically, it felt like pushing around a giant shopping trolley.
With more than enough support we guided Hazel Armstrong back to her home location. A distance that should not have been any longer since the rubber castor wheel tires crumbled when we hit the last curb stone; the giant ovens at the spay painter totally dried out the tiny rubber tires!
To make it official we had a bottle of champagne waiting at arrival :-) Although some might have thought differently, we were absolutely not going to smash this bottle on the front of my bus as you would do when naming a ship. It was a nice and enjoyable evening; we even managed to get the cable loom installed after finishing a bottle of champagne...
