A good deal = a BIG job!

Last week I was browsing through CraigsList and found a play set for $1,000. I forwarded it to Dave, thinking this would be nice and looked like $1,000 wouldn't be a bad deal for it. This snowballed, and well...we now own a playset - that our 14-month-old is a little young for. This is the play set and we we got it for quite a bit less than the $1,000 asking price. Dave had been pricing stuff out for a while, and the slide new would cost $600 let-alone all the hardware, wood, swings, etc. we'd have to buy. Dave and I worked Friday night with my Dad and our friend Nick to disassemble it from the former owner's backyard in West Des Moines. We got half of it home, and Sunday Dave went back and got the remaining portion (the double-decker play house portion). We have to do some dirt work in our yard to get an area level. We're considering if we might have to cut a tree in that area down as well. The next steps are to restain the wood, replace a few boards and some hardware...then we can start the reassembling. YIKES - this will be a BIG project!
Feel free to stop anytime...many hands make light work. :-)