We picked up the trailer on Saturday morning, and as someone suggested to me, it's a good thing that we weren't going too far.
The first problem we had was that the truck's trailer brake controller was only for electric brakes, so didn't work with the hydraulic brakes. However, they had a tech take care of that problem fairly quickly. Then, before we even got to the campground in High River, Joan realized we didn't get the keys for the RV. After we got the trailer parked, Trever drove me back to Calgary to get the keys. They were waiting at the desk for us, so the salesman realized as well.
Trever and our grandson's helped us load up the stuff we had left in their garage, and then came over to help us get settled.
We managed to get things in some semblance of order, and took them out for a celebration of our eldest grandson's 15th birthday, then watched the Amazing Race at their place (no TV or internet connection in the campground).
Later that evening, I tried to get the water running on the water pump, but nothing was coming through.
On Sunday morning, we had the campground host take a look, and he noticed that the water strainer on the line into the water pump had been broken off (frozen, or tightened too hard).
This morning we took the trailer back to the dealer. They had somebody get on it right away. He replaced the strainer and set all the valves to the right position so that our water was working, and checked it all out. He also found that a fuse in the truck had gone, so we had no left turn signals on the trailer, and took care of that as well. We picked up a pair of mirror extensions while we were there, and managed to install them ourselves. We were back to the campground by about 2:30, so had a quick nap. Nice to be able to nap on a Monday afternoon.
We just found a coffee shop with WiFi, so here we are, checking our e-mail and updating our blog.
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