ONE WEEK AND COUNTING

I tell you true, we feel like we are in early Northern Minnesota summer.
We have been so busy this first week, yesterday I intended to blog but got so busy with deleting my emails and then boom, the day seemed to take over. It was moving day, but rather than go backwards I will fill in our first week at Sun Life Resort.
Jim has an old high school classmate here. Ronnie and Marybeth Scavo. On Arriving last Tuesday as soon as we got set up in A-31 they walked over and welcomed us and invited us for a wonderful Tex-Mex dinner of Authentic Fajitas. I brought the Margaritas and it was a wonderful night. On Thursday we shopped at so many places I forget but we have been to Camper World at least everyday for the past week and I won't get in to that now.
I talked to Sonja my sister as soon as I arrived and she agreed to visit us for the weekend and did so. Our first day at the pool may have been Friday and they have bands that show up on Fridays and Saturdays. We had breakfast of pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, juice and coffee for Three Dollars each. It was a wonderful breakfast and probably will do that every Saturday morning. She said she had a very nice weekend and we topped it off with church right in the camp on Sunday. She went home around noon after our wonderful breakfast of Belgian Waffle's and sausage.
Sunday afternoon we went to visit two members of our Bethany family about two miles from us in another park, Don and Elsie Kleman. They are kept so busy. She is really involved in the music program at their park and she and Don take groups on hikes throughout the Mesa area. Both in their late eighties and fit as fiddles. Someone to emulate.
Back to my Camper World story, We went there Saturday to pick up a new table and liked a set we saw with 4 folding chairs. Got it back to the camper and it was missing parts, so we took it back Sunday and got another set and when we tried to put that together, that was missing other parts. We took that back on Monday and purchased a different table, which we like a lot and a new rocking chair for Jim, I got one when we purchased the camper last September. We have two other folding chairs so with a total of four we figure we are good to go.
We have been back to Camping world twice since the missing parts incident for other stuff so as you can plainly see, our truck just goes there.
Another place we have been to twice is the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert, AZ about 5 miles straight South of us. What a wonderful place to walk the dogs and watch birds. I can't see them except in bunches because binoculars just don't seem to work well for me but I go along for the walks anyway. The Canada Geese, Domestic White Geese, lots or ducks, Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, they have four kinds of hummingbirds and lots and other species. Jim is having too much fun.
We invited Ronnie and Marybeth over for dinner last night, they had us for dinner our first night in the park and we had them for dinner after we moved from A-31 to A-35. Big move huh.
We made them Chicken Fajitas. Ronnie showed Jim where the Superstition Market is, get this green pepper are six for a dollar and the yellow, orange and red ones are less than fifty cents apiece. Jim took me there yesterday, too fun. Ronnie gave us a fry pan with the holes for veggies and of course we forgot it. We are looking for a Bed, Bath and Be yon so we can get us another one for the camper and for any of you kids that wan one. It's too wonderful to grill veggies in it. The smell almost takes your breath away. It's so wonderful.
The swimming pool here is to die for.
I have been to the laundry her twice already. What are we. Pigs!
You wouldn't believe how dirty it is here. The dust is everywhere. Otto is our dirt indicator. I can't even have Jim take him on the canal walks because he comes back looking like he does old time black face. I ask Jim to keep him on the sidewalks but at the Preserve they have both so Otto is dirty as can be again. You can't see the dirt on Makons as much but its there.
We have been here a week now and we do love being able to take walks. No snow. It is oh so wonderful.
I hear the Master. Today I am making a Mexican breakfast. More later.