Nelson

This weekend was really cool!

First of all, I pretty much took Friday afternoon off (remember, I’m self-employed now, so I can get away with that, as long as the work is still getting done…which it is), and we did a bunch of running around. Just stupid stuff that needed to get done mostly. But we had fun doing it.

On Saturday morning, I got up early. REALLY early because at 4:30 a.m., I heard the wind really whipping our awning…and being kind of anal about things, I got up and rolled up the awning and put away anything that the wind could blow away. I tried to get back to sleep after that, but probably only slept about 45 minutes or so before I got out of bed at 7:30 a.m. A couple of hours later, I was – guess where – at a model boat race! It was pretty fun, but the wind was still blowing (as it did all day Saturday), and the water was rough for the guys…so they couldn’t go as fast as they really wanted to or else the boats would flip. One of the things I noticed about these particular racers though, was that they are RECKLESS! I don’t know how many times I cringed watching the racing.

In the afternoon on Saturday, we went to the WinterFest street fair, which was one of the reasons we really wanted to change our plans and come to Lake Havasu City in February in the first place. It was actually really surprising how big the fair was. It was probably close to a mile of vendors (everything from Indian music on CDs to Kettle Korn (doesn’t EVERY street fair have Kettle Korn?)). But it was fun. When we got home, I worked on my boat a little (I got the motor “reversed” and finished up everything except getting a cooling fan (though I ordered one) to have it ready to run), and Dawn cooked a turkey (albeit a small one to fit in the RV oven). We had a great dinner, and tonight we had turkey sandwiches. YUM.

Today was fun, too. We had been told that there was a flea market here in town. Don’t ask me what it is – our fascination with flea markets – but we went. I bought a new pair of basketball shoes, which I needed badly, for $15. They’re not Nikes, but they LOOK like Nikes.

That’s the update for today. I’ll upload a few model boat racing pictures to the blog soon.