Monday, July 17th, I'll start with Dave never had time to paint the master bathroom before we left. Friday morning we installed the new covers for the front, driver side, and passenger side windows, they are for helping to block out the sun and keep the inside of the coach cooler when your parked. Of course we remove them when we are driving, or I should say when Dave is driving. Boy do they work, maybe our air conditioner won't have to work so hard now. By the time we got those installed, the car packed, and drive over to Kim's it was almost 11:00 am so no time for painting the bathroom. We dropped Valley off and went to breakfast/lunch before heading down south. We got on the road to Garden Grove at noon and made it to Mike's at 3:00 pm, boy I sure don't miss all that traffic, we went the 99 to the 5 to the 110 then the 105 to the 605 to the 405 then the 22, gosh the traffic was horrible. My ass was numb when we got there, Trini kept telling me to quit rubbing my ass I told her I had to get blood flowing thru it again. We had a nice visit and Mike BBQ'd chicken and ribs, Marisa, Lisa, Kyle and baby Kylie were also there and stayed for dinner. (Not sure if I'm spelling all the names right) Boy, that is the best baby, she never cries and just entertains herself. We left Saturday morning about 5:15am and got to San Pedro with no problems. We got there a little before 6 and Brad and Diane showed up about 6:15, Phil got there about 6:30. The boat left right at 7:00 am and we got to Catalina at about 8:10 and got lockers and a cart to haul all the diving equipment. The guys went diving on the other side of the Casino a long with the other hundred people also diving. Diane and I just sat and talked until they came back in to get their tanks refilled, while they were waiting for the tanks Diane and I took off and went shopping. They have a lot of neat stuff there and I had no idea of all the stuff you can do on the island. All this time I have never wanted to go there but if I had the chance now I would go for a week and really explore the place, maybe someday. All the other times I have been there it's been in the winter time and nothing is going on then but boy in the summer time the place is hopping.
The guys got the tanks filled and went diving again, after that they were tired and all of us were hungry so we packed up the gear and headed back to the lockers. After everything was put away we went to a mexican restaurant for margaritas and buffalo burgers. Well the guys had buffalo burgers Diane and I didn't. After ice cream cones we got in line to take the boat back to San Pedro. We started back to Bakersfield at 6:30 pm and got to Kim's at 9:15 pm picked up Valley and went home. What a great day, great weather and boy did we get sun burned but it was a lot of fun to get away.
Saturday the plumbers showed up and finished what they needed to do, Fernando and Danny worked all day in the bathroom but didn't finish, I guess now that's Danny and Dave's job. Al, the handyman, showed up this morning to start painting the whole house, he came back with a good bid. The front doors were suppose to be in Tuesday so Lowes should be calling with a date for installation, so it looks like everything is slowly coming together. We leave here on the 27th so not much time left to finish everything.
Better cut off for now, will update blog later.