We arrived at my sister's house about 3 pm on Friday.
It is nice to be back here, but the humidity will take some getting used to.
We had become acclimated to Seattle weather and this will take some adjustment.
Beth arrived before we did and Val & Beth had taken off for Costco, so they were gone when we arrived. They had gone to pick up some lamb chops for dinner. They were delicious. Beth fixed them on the grill and they were cooked to perfection.\
The coach is parked in front of Val & Tony's house and I think Cleo is enjoying the stability, but misses us not being with her in the coach.
We went to church at St. Edwards and enjoyed seeing some of our old friends. We will attend next week and go to breakfast with the family before heading to our assignment in Livingston.
We have decided that we want to be all settled before we are expected to begin our duties as camp hosts. We are unsure exactly what is expected of us at this time, but I am sure that they will explain all we need to know.
Ta ya for now.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Mike & Sally
We left Las Vegas earlier than we had planned, but that didn't affect our arrival in Kingman, AZ.
Blake Ranch RV Park is a very nice park to be in the desert. The sites are level, although pea gravel. The utilities were good and the noise level was good, considering we were just off of I-40.
US 93 from LV to Phoenix is a great road. There was a lot of construction, but the road was in good shape and the traffic wasn't too bad.
Our time with Mike & Sally was wonderful. Aunt Sally, to Cleo, greeted Cleo with treats.
She just thinks Aunt Sally is the 'cats meow'.
We never left the park. I didn't even unhook the car. We just visited and played Pegs & Jokers for the 2 days we were together.
In the past when we have played Pegs & Jokers with them, Sally & Brenda beat Mike & me unmercifully. This time was different. Mike & I beat them both days, but the games were close in most instances & it could have gone either way.
We are now in Saguaro Co-op SKP park in Benson, AZ.
We always stay here on our way east if we come down to I-10. This is such a nice park. We have stayed here for extended time in the past.
Today is a short drive. Fewer than 175 miles to Deming, NM. A breeze, after yesterday.
Ta ta for now.
Blake Ranch RV Park is a very nice park to be in the desert. The sites are level, although pea gravel. The utilities were good and the noise level was good, considering we were just off of I-40.
US 93 from LV to Phoenix is a great road. There was a lot of construction, but the road was in good shape and the traffic wasn't too bad.
Our time with Mike & Sally was wonderful. Aunt Sally, to Cleo, greeted Cleo with treats.
She just thinks Aunt Sally is the 'cats meow'.
We never left the park. I didn't even unhook the car. We just visited and played Pegs & Jokers for the 2 days we were together.
In the past when we have played Pegs & Jokers with them, Sally & Brenda beat Mike & me unmercifully. This time was different. Mike & I beat them both days, but the games were close in most instances & it could have gone either way.
We are now in Saguaro Co-op SKP park in Benson, AZ.
We always stay here on our way east if we come down to I-10. This is such a nice park. We have stayed here for extended time in the past.
Today is a short drive. Fewer than 175 miles to Deming, NM. A breeze, after yesterday.
Ta ta for now.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Vegas & beyond
We are now in Las Vegas. We have made just overnight stops since we left Seattle.
We are in the Sams Town RV park and just a stones throw from the casino.
Lunch was in order after we got settled, so over to the casino we went for a buffet and some light slot gambling. I quickly went through 3/4 of my gambling allowance and stopped. Brenda proceeded to win back what I had lost and we left the casino even.
Sams Town offers a free shuttle downtown and we decided to take advantage of it. We went down to Fremont Street and took in the sights as well as we both lost all of gambling allowances. ($60)
We are leaving here in the morning and will meet Mike & Sally in Kingman, AZ.
These are our friends from Michigan whom we met while we were at Timber Ridge.
We haven't seen them in 2 years and we are looking forward to our visit. We will be there until the 17th, then just overnight in parks along our way back to Spring.
The weather here is hot. We have been in jeans and jackets for the last month, so we were forced into shorts yesterday.
I expect our cool weather is a thing of the past until maybe next month. The air conditioners are getting a good work out on the coach.
We are looking forward to our return to Texas to see family and friends.
Ta ta for now
We are in the Sams Town RV park and just a stones throw from the casino.
Lunch was in order after we got settled, so over to the casino we went for a buffet and some light slot gambling. I quickly went through 3/4 of my gambling allowance and stopped. Brenda proceeded to win back what I had lost and we left the casino even.
Sams Town offers a free shuttle downtown and we decided to take advantage of it. We went down to Fremont Street and took in the sights as well as we both lost all of gambling allowances. ($60)
We are leaving here in the morning and will meet Mike & Sally in Kingman, AZ.
These are our friends from Michigan whom we met while we were at Timber Ridge.
We haven't seen them in 2 years and we are looking forward to our visit. We will be there until the 17th, then just overnight in parks along our way back to Spring.
The weather here is hot. We have been in jeans and jackets for the last month, so we were forced into shorts yesterday.
I expect our cool weather is a thing of the past until maybe next month. The air conditioners are getting a good work out on the coach.
We are looking forward to our return to Texas to see family and friends.
Ta ta for now
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
On the road again
We left Lake Sammamish at around 9:00am. It was raining and rained almost all of the way to Hermiston, OR.
The goodbyes were a little difficult for some as Hugo doesn't like long goodbyes.
This has been a pretty full weekend. Our friends from Canada came down on Saturday and spent the day with us. We have not seen them since last year and it was good to see them.
We had not been to Snoqualmie Falls in the time that we have been in Washington, and it is only a little over 10 miles from the park. So, we decided to take Greg & Dawn to the falls. it surely was a sight to see.
We also went to the Salmon hatchery in Issaquah as we hadn't been there either. We just seem to go to the kid's house on our days off and don't take in the local sights.
The salmon are running and the hatchery is on Issaquah creek so there were lots of salmon in the creek before the fish ladder in the hatchery. A very interesting day to say the least. Greg even fixed dinner. Yum Yum, spaghetti.
We then went over to the newest Senior Park Aid's home for drinks. They live in thew park just across the parking lot from our site.
Yesterday, we celebrated Gracie's 1st birthday. there were many people there including Fred's parents & aunt Rose. Becky's friend Tiffany & her family also attended, as well as Debbie & Ben (the boy).
Gracie surely was excited about her own piece of cake. She attacked it with vigor and made remarkably little mess. This kid knows where food is supposed to go.
The goodbyes were a little difficult for some as Hugo doesn't like long goodbyes.
This has been a pretty full weekend. Our friends from Canada came down on Saturday and spent the day with us. We have not seen them since last year and it was good to see them.
We then went over to the newest Senior Park Aid's home for drinks. They live in thew park just across the parking lot from our site.
Yesterday, we celebrated Gracie's 1st birthday. there were many people there including Fred's parents & aunt Rose. Becky's friend Tiffany & her family also attended, as well as Debbie & Ben (the boy).
Gracie surely was excited about her own piece of cake. She attacked it with vigor and made remarkably little mess. This kid knows where food is supposed to go.
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| Big sis helping |
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| Aunt Rose & the birthday girl |
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Wine tour & Last week in Washington
It is very hard to believe that we have been here almost 4 months. The time sure does fly when you are having fun.
We have enjoyed watching the granddaughters grow and change. Watching Lindsay come out of her shell and how much she enjoys school.
Gracie changes almost every week. She has become so much more active. When we first arrived, she was always being held by someone. Now she wants to be on the floor and moving, she is so mobile.
We are going to miss all of our family here.
Last weekend, we went down to Portland to visit my son, Alex, and his girlfriend, Kristen.
She is a representative of a wine distributor and has connections with many wineries.
Fortunately, they live very close to the Willamette Valley and its many vintners. She arranged that we go on a 5 winery tasting extravaganza.
The 1st one was an ATV tour of the vineyard and all of its facilities by the manager of the winery.
As we rode around the vineyard, she would stop and we would taste one of the 5 wines that she had brought. She was very good and we learned a lot about the history of the Willamette valley and especially this particular winery.
We tried a dessert wine that they loosely refer to as 'ice wine'. Ice wine is actually produced after the grapes are allowed to freeze on the vines and then harvested.
The Willamette valley rarely if ever freezes, so they harvest the grapes then freeze them and proceed to make the wine.
Almost every one of the dessert wines that we tasted were excellent and ever so smooth.
No need for a desert after a good meal with these delectables.
There were no more tours, but 4 more wineries. The main wine produced here is Pinot Noir and all of the wineries that we visited were within a short distance of each other. It was very interesting to note the differences in the wines from the different vineyards as the were almost next to each other. The tour and tastings were free to us, and a 30% discount on the wines we chose to buy. Thank you, Kristen.
We have slowly started to get the rig ready for the road. I have put away almost everything out side as it has started to rain here almost every day.
Brenda has started rearranging cabinets so we won't have any damage to goods in the cabinets.
As you might expect, things get stored differently when you are sitting as opposed to when you are traveling.
We are off to Becky's this morning to do our last loads of laundry and do a little grocery shopping.
This will be our last time to spend time with Fred before we depart.
Sunday, Becky is celebrating Gracie's 1st birthday. With all of her friends from school, Fred's parents and us, there will be quite a crowd there.
We are meeting some friends from Michigan, Mike and Sally Ranger in Kingman, AZ. We were hoping to get to Michigan last spring, but with the fuel prices as they were, we didn't make the trip that far east. Maybe, next spring.
Beth is going to be very busy when we pass through Phoenix and she will arrive in Spring about the same day that we will, so we will see her there. It will be good to see her again.
We will park our rig at Val's house until we we leave for Lake Livingston State Park.
We understand that Mike and Barb will be visiting Val & Tony while we are there. So we will enjoy seeing and visiting with them.
My youngest brother, Chris, lives there with his wife Linda, so all of the siblings will be together again, what a joy.
Ta ta for now.
We have enjoyed watching the granddaughters grow and change. Watching Lindsay come out of her shell and how much she enjoys school.
Gracie changes almost every week. She has become so much more active. When we first arrived, she was always being held by someone. Now she wants to be on the floor and moving, she is so mobile.
We are going to miss all of our family here.
Last weekend, we went down to Portland to visit my son, Alex, and his girlfriend, Kristen.
She is a representative of a wine distributor and has connections with many wineries.
Fortunately, they live very close to the Willamette Valley and its many vintners. She arranged that we go on a 5 winery tasting extravaganza.
The 1st one was an ATV tour of the vineyard and all of its facilities by the manager of the winery.
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| Tour guide and wine tasting |
We tried a dessert wine that they loosely refer to as 'ice wine'. Ice wine is actually produced after the grapes are allowed to freeze on the vines and then harvested.
The Willamette valley rarely if ever freezes, so they harvest the grapes then freeze them and proceed to make the wine.
Almost every one of the dessert wines that we tasted were excellent and ever so smooth.
No need for a desert after a good meal with these delectables.
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| Willamette Valley |
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| Neat rows of Pinot Noir grapes |
Brenda has started rearranging cabinets so we won't have any damage to goods in the cabinets.
As you might expect, things get stored differently when you are sitting as opposed to when you are traveling.
We are off to Becky's this morning to do our last loads of laundry and do a little grocery shopping.
This will be our last time to spend time with Fred before we depart.
Sunday, Becky is celebrating Gracie's 1st birthday. With all of her friends from school, Fred's parents and us, there will be quite a crowd there.
We are meeting some friends from Michigan, Mike and Sally Ranger in Kingman, AZ. We were hoping to get to Michigan last spring, but with the fuel prices as they were, we didn't make the trip that far east. Maybe, next spring.
Beth is going to be very busy when we pass through Phoenix and she will arrive in Spring about the same day that we will, so we will see her there. It will be good to see her again.
We will park our rig at Val's house until we we leave for Lake Livingston State Park.
We understand that Mike and Barb will be visiting Val & Tony while we are there. So we will enjoy seeing and visiting with them.
My youngest brother, Chris, lives there with his wife Linda, so all of the siblings will be together again, what a joy.
Ta ta for now.
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