Dawn

OK, finally some time to blog. Let’s see…Friday evening we went Christmas shopping at the mall. Saturday evening we went to the local nighttime parade. Of course none of my pictures turned out. I’ve finally learned that if I want to take pics at night, I need to take my bigger camera and not my little 2” one that I just wear around my neck. It’s pretty cool, but not good for all situations. The parade was really downhome and cute. They pretty much just decorated cars and trucks and towtrucks. They mounted Christmas trees on top of the cars and strung lights all over them. It was nothing like the floats at the Rose Festival, but it was really cute. We noticed a lot of the people had stocking caps and gloves on. That is so funny. To us it was a beautiful evening. Probably about 60-64 degrees. We didn’t get there until right before it started, not thinking it would be crowded. But as far as we could see it was about 4 people deep most everywhere. If we’re here next year we’ll go early and people watch to get a good spot. There were several Middle school and high school bands. It was one of the few Christmas activities we’ve seen so far this year. Lot’s more at home.

Saturday morning we took off for Phoenix for a couple of days. We stopped at Quartzsite on the way. We have heard so much about that place. It was pretty much just an old dirty town. I guess it’s unbelievable the activities that go on there in January and February. I’m kind of anxious to check it out next month and see for myself what goes on there. The scary part is that there are supposed to be tons of RV dealers with really good prices on RV’s. I’m afraid I’ll be tempted to get a nicer RV. But we don’t know yet if we’re going to keep up this kind of lifestyle after 6 months. So buying a nicer RV would be a really dumb thing to do at this point. I’d better just stay away from Quartzsite, I don’t trust myself.

A friend of Nelson’s that lives in Phoenix came over to the hotel last night. They had a great time catching up. I think it’s been like 8 years or so since they’ve seen each other. So that was a lot of fun.

Nelson was off to Bend today to speak at a conference regarding his company, Noslen Communications. I just talked to him on the phone and he said it went great. I’ve been in the hotel room most of today taking advantage of the high speed internet which has been awesome (oops, I mean really nice). You sure don’t appreciate those things until you are without them. We also really miss not having a DVR. We have a Tivo with us and we have satellite and we can sometimes hook up to cable, but I guess because we don’t have a phone line or can’t use our cell phone or something, we can’t figure out how to use it. We’ll take any suggestions from anyone out there.

We’ll also take suggestions on an electrical problem we’re having. It started when a light bulb had burnt out. When we went to change it, it blew a fuse. It must have shorted something, because no matter what we do, as soon as we turn the power back on, it automatically blows the fuse again. We have gone one by one taking out the light bulbs to see where the problem is but no matter what we do it immediately blows the fuse when we turn the power back on. We were told to make sure the bulbs were not only the correct size but to make sure they had the same amount of prongs as the fixture, like one or two. We did that, it still blows the fuse. We’re going to have to take it in when we get back. So we would appreciate any other suggestions of things to try. Thanks all.

I’m going to go down to the restaurant for dinner soon. That will be sort of weird. I don’t think I’ve ever gone into a restaurant by myself before. Oh well, time for me to grow up.

Tomorrow we’re going to check out some possible future RV sites and towns in the area. Phoenix seems a lot smaller and cleaner than I expected.

I’ll keep in touch…