First 10 days of March

Friday, March 9th

What a week! On Monday we visited the Pima Air Museum. There must have been 300 airplanes there! You know who was in heaven, don’t you? I liked the first 15 minutes, then they all began looking alike: engines, cockpits, wings, wheels…..on and on… you’ll have to give Brian a call on his cell to get the full description of what he saw. I know he loved it!

I went to a quilting group on Tuesday. Our neighbor here in the Park is from Troy, and she had seen my applique quilts, and insisted I join their group…by the way, “show and tell” was Tuesday. So…….I showed my Hearts and Flowers that I am hand quilting. I felt really good about the comments. I finished Danny and Jonna’s wedding quilt just before Christmas, and sent it out to my sister, Wendy in Oregon, to quilt on her Gammill machine. She finished it last week, and sent it back to me to put on the binding. Last night I sewed one side of the binding on, and now I have to hand sew the back side of the binding to the quilt. Wendy did a great job on the quilting….Danny and Jonna, you are just going to LOVE it!!!!!

Wednesday we went exploring…got kinda lost, but found our way back home, whew!! Also, we are going down to Chelle’s home in Mexico in a couple of weeks, so we wanted Mexican auto insurance for the Jeep. What a fun chore that was for us. On Monday, we went to the AAA office about 10 miles away, filled out the forms. When she asked me to check all the figures, I mentioned that the expiration date of our insurance certificate should be ’07 not ’06. Well, she read it right. Our new certificate is nowhere to be found…must still be in Michigan somewhere at our home. Well, we contacted our insurance agent in Michigan the next day and asked our agent to fax an updated copy to AAA. They did, and we went over again on Wednesday. Well, all the figures she’d typed into her computer were gone, so we had to start all over from scratch. So, Brian went out to the Jeep to get the registration….couldn’t find it. Well, you know what he said, don’t you???? “Why didn’t you put it away in the folder in the glove box?” To make a very long story short, on Monday he had taken the certificates away from me in the AAA office, interleafed them with some maps he had in his hands, and put those maps between his seat and the middle console. Went back today with all the correct paperwork, and got our insurance policy for our trip. Yay!!!!!

This morning we went up near Phoenix to check out an RV Park that Dick and Joyce Thams highly recommended. It is everything they said it would be. Maybe someday in the future we’ll have to go there for the winter.

Brian is making plans and reservations when we leave here on April 1st. We want to make it to the Monaco Factory in Elkhart, IN to get a few things resolved. We love this coach, and are really enjoying this lifestyle.

Brian’s brother and his wife, Art and Carol, just got home from their trip to Australia and New Zealand today, so they are going to have a lot to say to us, and pictures to share.

More next week!
Dee


March 4th

Since we don’t have wi-fi at our site (it would be about $100 for the month of March because we have to buy a modem, which we already have one in Michigan), so I run/walk to the Information Center because they have a direct hook to the internet. So here is what we’ve done this week:

On Tuesday we kinda did nothing but walk around the Park to investigate what all the activities that are offered here. The weather has not been all that warm….low 30’s at night, but only trying to reach 60 during the day,. The wind blows a lot here, too, not every day, but a couple of days a week. We came South for our trip because the winters in Michigan are extremely low humidity and very cold. This morning, here in Tucson, the humidity is 8%, so we didn’t really trade up, did we? We use a lot of creams on our skin here, too.

We met Chelle for dinner on Wednesday. She made reservations at “Hifalutin” restaurant. Brian thought she was describing the restaurant, not the name. It was neat….the waiters were cute young men dressed all in black with huge silver buckles on their belts, and huge black hats. When asking what we’d like, they said, “what’d you like, ma’am?” Chelle and I were enthralled!! It is nice to meet with family. She doesn’t have much family here, just her daughter, Soleil, who is 16, and she has one more year before college. She is talking college in England. Chelle will be missing her a lot, then.

Thursday we had our major adventure of going out to the grocery store, the rest of the day we looked into the Fitness Center and found out how the machines work. Brian wants to get an exercise routine going, but because of my back and arthritis, I would have to use the swimming pool exercise classes. Now, let me tell you when they have these classes in the outdoor pool…..9AM!!! I’m not that crazy to run out to an exercise class when the temps are at 32 degrees, let me tell you flat out. So, when it comes right down to it, we’ll probably not do either one.

Yesterday we drove out to Old Tucson. That is the movie set that most of the Western Movies were made on: High Chapperal, High Noon, McClintock, also the one that Sharon Stone made famous with her leather breeches, and tons of more films. Almost all of the John Wayne movies were made there. We spent nearly 4 hours there just wandering around, and listening to different things.

One of the activities here are cards, lots of different card games. Brian knows how to play bridge, and I’ve played a little a long time ago. So, we tried to find a book store. Wow, had to travel a great distance from where the Park is, but we found a Barnes & Noble, and bought “Bridge for Dummies”, I guess Goren’s book is out of print…. So, now begins the slow process for me to learn it all over again!!

One thing I forgot to mention in my last update was this: When we were in San Antonio, we loved that city! The River Walk is something grand. It goes right through the city, and they’ve built their restaurants and shops along this walk. It is beautiful! We like this city the best of all we’ve seen on our trip. We also saw an IMAX film about the battle for the Alamo. Wow!!

That’s all for today.
Dee