Sunday, April 11, 2010

Sunday, April 11, 2010

I will try and post from my iPad. I had the post all finished and told it to post and I lost it....well live and learn.

We are in Wauchula about 90 miles from home. We need to try a couple of items before needing out this summer. The first is important because if any of our grandchildren want to stay with us we need the aired to work. Amazing we read the directions and try to inflate it and golly gee, it works! we continue with directions and deflate it stills works and is so very easy to use. Basically power it up and power it down. So we now know the kids can stay with us if they want to.

The last item we must try out is the central vac system. Wow, how easy to clean the floors. Yes, it works and does a great job.

Tomorrow we head home. We have enjoyed our mini vacation here in the thriving metropolis of Wauchula. We have accomplished everything we wanted to do checking all items on the r.v. We will be ready to head out on vacation soon. Think we might head out in mid May which is really just around the corner.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Thursday, April 8th. 2010

Well today starts great. We hear the leaves from the live oak trees outside our front door dropping down. We make a pot of coffee and head outside to sit and enjoy the start of a lovely day. Tom makes our breakfast (cereal & fruit) and we sit outside to eat that.

Nancy plays on her new i-pad and starts reading her book. Tom takes snoozes and we visit with neighbors. Charley is having the time of her life....Mom and Dad walk her all the time. Nancy wants some games on her i-pad and Tom is loading them on for her.

Soon it will be cocktail time and then time for supper. We are putting things in new places in the motorhome and still trying to find what we did with others. Sure how all gets found and we have this ready by mid-May when we plan on heading out for the summer.

As most of you know, our daughter-in-law Amy (Michigan) is due the end of July and she is giving us our first grand-son. So we will be in Michigan for that event, then we will head out for Minnesota and the headwaters of the mighty Mississippi where we plan on traveling down that river.. the first part of our summer trip will be the east coast. So we have grand travel plans coming up. As we travel I will update this blog site, so stop back often to find out where we are and what we are doigng.
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Today we left Estero for another shakedown trip. We are only going to Wauchula about 90 miles from home. We are at the Thousand Trails/NACO campgrounds. They are nice. When we arrived we unhooked the car and went around the campgrounds searching for the nicest space we could find. So we are at a fairly neat campsite. We spent a fair amount of time setting up before having lunch. After lunch we think we will try and find a branch of the bank we bank with. The nearest one is in Avon Park about 20 miles away. So off we go. Nancy forgot to take her camera and she missed out on some fantastic scenery along the way. Nice and quiet day.