Hot Tub Adventure

Ben and I both really love sitting in a hot tub during winter time. We really wanted one but weren't quite ready to buy one and were keeping our eyes peeled for someone who just wanted to get rid of theirs. Our luck changed a couple of weeks ago when we heard a family friend was looking to get rid of a hot tub. We had heard that it was old but saw pictures and it was in awesome shape so we decided to go for it. So this last saturday we made our way over to this house in Fresno to pick up the spa + gazebo. The owner/family friend was watching to whole time so it was a little more tedious taking apart the gazebo nicely rather than blasting it apart where some of it had rotted. Most of it was actually in pretty good shape and relatively easy to get apart. The hot tub itself was a lot bigger than we anticipated. 8 x 8 and heavy as lead, Ben and I and our recruited 3 helpers could barely budge a corner. Luckily there so happened to be a forklift on the premises. This helped after we got the hot tub on its side because the bottom wasn't solid and therefore couldn't be lifted that way and it couldn't lay flat on the trailer and fit. So the owner gets on the forklift, mind you this man is at least 93, so thus began the big adventure of the day. I half closed my eyes as the hot tub made its way to the trailer as the driver was a little rocky and the other guys were hanging on for dear life. But we succeeded in getting it on the trailer and the rest was cake. We took the 43 home and just went slow. It is currently still atop the trailer but will be taken down soon by a much better forklift driver and more hands hopefully. I told Ben I don't want to be around to see it happen though. I think last time was all I can handle.