Back to work! (Happy New Years/Bon Anne 2014!)

Took a bit of a ski break to catch up on our powder skills, but now we're back!  Here's what went down in 30 seconds or less:

1. Skied for 7 straight days and now we have thunder thighs.  Off-piste is boss!
2. Hung out and ate cheese with Daniel's family all over Europe, including challenging his father to a "Daileiboo " (pronounced die-lee-BOO) match (think: volley ball on a make-shift tennis court played by juggling and passing a soccer ball).

3. Successfully resisted the waffle craze in Belgium but wished we hadn't.
4. Ate a lot of Nutella.
5. Tried to buy a pair of Europants but couldn't find any.
6. Watched the Hobbit 2 in 3-D.
7. Got Nutella taken away from us at the security checkpoint at the airport.

It's been a few weeks away from the project, and it's a whole new year.  As we drove the 2 1/2 hours from Albany to the Northcountry last night and rambled right into our usual Sprinter brainstorming, we weren't able to throw out exact measurements of proposed fixtures just from memory like we were used to.  '18 inches on the pull-out table. . . and the inside depth of the coat cabinet is 14 inches, so that means. . .oh well if two storage totes stacked on top is max 4 feet, then you have 2 inches left for the slide mechanism. . .'  etc, etc, etc.  Instead we were pulling blanks.  That made brainstorming difficult, but in the back of my mind I thought it is probably healthy to have let some of those robot minutia slip away.

Today begins Phase II of the Sprinter build.  (We brought Phase I to a close by completing the insulation of the ceiling, walls, and floor.)  We will be installing the bed platform, side panels, and storage compartments.  I will also be completing the back log of entries from before the ski spree.  Cheers, and welcome to 2014!  -Delilah