Friday, December 10, 2010

12/10/2010 (Fri) - The Final Stretch

It's really quite difficult to blog when very little is going on, or could that be I am doing very little.  On Thursday we did see the play, Hair.

 
The play was well done but not my style at all. 
I personally liked the Grinch Who Stole Christmas much better.  Both Jim and I have found we like the small intimate theaters for plays.   Last night we went to a dance here at the park.  I am still surprised that with a park that has 748 sites that so few people attend events.  I don't think there was 75 people there.  The music was wonderful and of course the line dancers were in full swing leaving just the center between tables for couple dancers.  This park has some really good dancers, I mean really good. 

We have been busy getting things in order so we are ready to hopefully leave on Dec. 17th.  We've been in this spot for 3 months and we have really spread out.  I've been going thru all the cabinets to make sure everything is as it should be.  When you pull a 5th wheel it is necessary to have things so that they can't fall and break, and so they can't actually bang into each other.  We use a lot of gripper shelf liner.  Keeps things in place. 

My shelves to keep all my tops.  Aren't they all neat and pressed?  Yes they are as I went thru all of them to make sure they were.

Jim's half of the closet.  Yes his are all pressed too, but I'm not showing you my half of the closet. 
Here in the park it is just one row after another of Christmas decorations.  Many people have those Christmas trees that are a round coil that lay flat and with a stand you pull them up and they look like a circular tree.  On any given street I think there are at least twenty of those.  Another thing that is just everywhere are those big red Christmas tree lights.  Only these are like a little fence around peoples front yards.  Each bulb is held up by that white plastic one inch pipe that is about a foot tall with notches cut in the top to hold the light.  One row that I mentioned before had those round ball things on their palm trees, and then on both sides of that street you see a string of lights from one ball to the other.  Toss in those red fence lights, those circular trees and you have one lit up street.  Power bill is going to be high for a lot of folks.  Our street, well.......let's just say we celebrate in a quiet way, a very quiet way.  Almost like no one lives there quiet.

We still need to put the things that need a little safer mode of travel in the back seat of the truck.  We will then have room for the outdoor carpet and the lawn chairs.  Jim has to go thru the front storage area and clean that up so the grill and propane can go in there.  Yes there is a place for everything and let me tell you it has to go in that place.  We arrived with a lot of space in the under part of the 5th wheel, but some how we have collected stuff.  Most likely stuff we really can be without.  We have found that by doing a little each day, it makes it easier than the big push the night before we leave.  When you are rushed you make mistakes.

Jim has been busy planning our route to Florida and we have reserved spots for the days we will be on the road.  Believe it or not we will be on the road six days getting to Florida.  We drive no more than 400 miles a day hauling the 5th wheel.  The total trip I think is around 2,200 miles. 

The puzzles are still being put together. They may look easy but these have been really difficult.  The one with the deer took the longest.




The weather has been really nice of late.  It still gets very cool in the evenings but during the day it is almost perfect.  Only bad thing is that by four it is nearing sunset time and it starts to get cool already.  Have a great day, and those of you in the northern part of the country, stay warm.

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