It's the little yellow school bus no more! It's certainly sad to see the yellow slowly disappear, but also very exciting to be moving forward with our project. In lieu of painting it a solid color, we think we have decided to just prime the entire outside and then slowly paint a mural across it with friends and throughout our travels.
It will definitely require a few coats, and a very long roller for the roof. Clearly we have done quite a bit of work to the inside as well. Well, Zach has, I have sort of fallen down on the job after a full day of grinding bolts. We've removed all of the inside wall panelling and started in on the roof paneling as well. The metal used on the walls was clearly destroyed in the removal process, but the ceiling panels can be removed and later screwed back on. The plan is to put in new and more efficient insulation and perhaps some semi-tacky wooden paneling to finish it off. We have also begun to rip up the subfloor. 
Goodbye plywood, hello opportunity! My aunt and uncle very generously offered up some wide-plank wooden flooring on their recent visit to Saratoga (thanks Carol and Richard!). We are at a slight standstill on demolition at the moment because we are, obviously, running out of space to put all the scrap that we are ripping out of the bus. But soon we will make a dump run. Bus seats are still up for grabs, in case anyone was wondering. Taking apart the side paneling has
revealed the hundreds of electrical wires that run throughout the bus, but we were thrilled to discover that they are each labeled with their function so we are slowly but steadily able to disconnect those auxiliary features that we no longer need. We'll miss the flashing lights, but the stop sign has been reinstated in the living room of my apartment as an homage.
