3D Ultrasound Pictures

Here are the pictures from Kim's 3D Ultra Sound. She says the baby has Danny's nose and lips but no comment on sex

DAVE'S FEET PROBLEMS

He went to the doctors this morning and he has PLANTER FASCIITIS so tomorrow he starts therapy, twice a week for the next 6 weeks. The doctor also gave him some kind of anti-inflammatory pills and prescribed lifts for the shoes. I guess what probably caused it was Dave not doing any activity then us jumping into pickle ball and playing a lot. Well I guess pickle ball is out for a while now, it will have to be Wii exercising for him, will find out from the therapist tomorrow.

Yesterday, on Dave's birthday, we went and got all the stuff to put in sprinklers in Kim's backyard. Saturday we will go and rent a trencher before going to Kim's baby shower at Danny's Mom's house. We will start trenching 1st thing Sunday morning. Dave and I also went with Kim to her doctors appointment, Dave wanted to meet the doctor, I had already met him. Dave got to listen to the heart beat and the doctor said everything is going great. When Danny got off work we all went out to dinner for Dave's b/day and my mother's day.

Forgot to mention that when we got back to Bakersfield, Bob and Jackie, one of the coupes we met on the Mexico trip, are back here again. They had a jr. high and high school graduation to go to for their grandsons. They are headed out tomorrow for Hearst Castle and some ocean camping before going back to Redding.

Kim came by this afternoon and played with the Wii for a little while before her hair cut, so I think she will be the next one getting a Wii. She said this is something that her and Danny could play together with, not the xbox.

Bob and Dave were playing golf this morning and Dave even beat Bob, which is really unheard of.

BAKERSFIELD, SIMI, DAVE'S B/DAY & GOOD NEWS

Let me start out with HAPPY 61ST BIRTHDAY to Dave. Danny surprised him with painting the whole house, amazing, what a great guy. I was always telling him he was too good for Kim, but now he is too good for us too, just kidding, still for Kim but not for us. Love you Danny, but I'm still not tearing up the pre-nup. :)

Now, about the good news we got today, from my niece Caryn, she got a call and work-comp is going to pay for all the medical costs from my oldest brother, Vance's, death. Something in the California law about Firemen and Policemen who die on the job from some kind of heart problem that is caused by the stress of the job. I guess a doctor re-looked at my brother's records and he had seen from the autopsy that he had a heart attack about a month before the stroke so everything is covered. What a relief for my niece and nephew, it's complicated and I'm sure I'm not saying it right but as long as they don't have to pay the 300K.

Simi Valley, we had a great time with Brad and Diane, visited El Patio, of course on Wednesday night. Thursday we went and parked at David Jr's then that night went to our friends house in Somis, Ginger and Stan. We had a great dinner, Mary and Vern were there too and we all talked till 10pm then Mary and Vern left. We were spending the night there so the 4 of us stayed up until 11:30 talking, we had a great time and they have a beautiful house, can't wait to see them again.
Friday night we went to Alex and Jacqui's house for a Jewish Dinner, food was great and company was even better.
Saturday morning we (David, Jodi, Dave and I) walked to Chef's burger for breakfast, big mistake, way too much walking for Dave and couldn't make it home. His heels are really hurting him, so needless to say he now has a doctor's appointment tomorrow, 5/29, with a doctor Kim set up for him. We had a wedding to go to Saturday night and we went but couldn't stay because of Dave's feet.
Sunday we got together with Howard and Jerry and went to a Winery in Moorpark with them. This is a privately owned winery, and we ended up going to the owner's house instead of the winery and their house was easily 6,000 sq ft, it over looked the valley, it was beautiful.
Monday, was grandgirls day, Jesica brought over the 3 girls, Dezira, Bryauna, and Jayden, Riley was at the house so we took them to the movies. Dave and the girls went in our car and David, Jodi and I went in another. We saw Indiana Jones then after that went to In and Out for lunch. Jesica and the girls had plans for the afternoon so they went home and the rest of us had a BBQ for dinner, it was a full day. With the Wii in the RV now you know where Riley was hanging out, which was great because she showed me things I didn't know you could do with Tennis, Baseball and Tennis. I'm just sorry we didn't get a chance to do the boxing because I haven't done that one yet, and I'm sure she could teach me a lot. Bryauna, told me on Monday, that the boxing Wii is a great workout, so now I really want to learn it.
Tuesday we headed back to Bakersfield, after I went to "THE HAT" for the pastrimi sandwiches, those are the best in the world, ask anyone who has been to one.

On the way back we stopped and filled up the motor home for the last time for the next 3 months and we payed $4.99. We head out again, in the motor home, about August 27th and I just hope all the diesel doesn't evaporate before then.

Back to Simi Valley

We have landed in Simi Valley, tonight we are parked in front of our friends house, Brad and Diane's then tomorrow we will be parked at the side of David Jr's house until Tuesday. We have plans for everyday we are here so I'm sure the time will go by fast, then it's back to Bakersfield.

One More Night / Blaze Update

It's Tuesday and we get out of here tomorrow, one more night, yea! It seems like we have been in these back hills forever, although the weather is cooling down now. Went to the baseball game again last night, Blaze won 10-9, Jet Hawks almost caught up in the 9th, made it a little exciting. No more news around here just wanted to give a quick update.

Sunday / Moving Day for Us

The weather has become so hot here that the last couple days we are having power surges with the RV's electrical. We have had to put on the generator to have the air conditioner on. We went to the "Meet the Manager" meeting yesterday morning and a lot of the complaints were about the electrical. This 1000 Trails park is 28 years old and needs a whole bunch of upgrading, which they are trying to do slowly. We use to park up in section "N", the highest part of the park, because that's where you could get cell service, but there are no trees there and it's pretty far from everything. Anyway, we found out at the meeting "N" Section is, or was, a land fill, that's why it is so high. Great we were parked on probably toxic crap, the only reason we didn't park there the last two times is because we can't get level anymore there. The manager said they had a company come in to try and make the sites level but they stopped because they were having to dig down to low to make it level. They said when it rains the sites will just become flooded, or maybe too toxic maybe???
Yesterday, before we went to the baseball game and after the managers meeting, Dave finally met our next door neighbor, and guess what, he has a special plug, that cost about $500.00, set up in his rig that he is able to plug into his spot and it sucks the juice out of our electrical plug too. So needless to say he isn't having any surges like us, no duh he sucked out all of our juice. I know Dave could explain the technical stuff but I'm writing and it's why over my head so we decided to move to another site this morning instead of turning our next door neighbor in. We stayed in the "N" section and went down about 20 sites, it was nice had a tree, but couldn't get the TV or satellite dish to work. Then we tried to move to another site, Dave was driving and it was a wrong angle, and we kind of got a little stuck, only because I didn't know how to Dave how to get out of the situation, so I took over driving and Dave got us back out. He got me backed out right so then we could pull almost straight into the 2nd spot we had tried to park in. Anyway, we got parked, TV working, satellite for computers working, put slides out plugged in electrical and after a few minutes the box starts smoking. It was really smoking because people across the way even saw it smoking. A couple of the park employees were out working on the electrical so Dave starts chasing one down to let him know about the smoke. Now remember there are a group of people across the way watching us move from site to site. Dave starts coming back to the rig I say we are still plugged into the electrical and he says "unplug us", I say "NO, you have more life insurance then I do, you unplug us". These people across the way start laughing and the women are saying "right on, you let him have it". The park shut the electrical down on are part of the park to check out the box. Long story short we have to move again, there was no way they could save that box today. We finally ended up, still in the "N" section but in a spot with no trees but guess what we have electrical, TV and Internet, 3 more nights here and we are gone, back in Simi Valley for 6 nights visiting with friends, can't wait.

The Bakersfield Blaze lost today, 7-6, didn't go to the game it was at 2pm and it was too darn hot to sit in the sun the whole time, but we are going to tomorrow nights game at 7pm.

Bakersfield Blaze Update

We went to the game at 5pm tonight again, and the Bakersfield Blaze won, yea!! It came really close, Bakersfield 4 to 0, then 4-4, Bakersfield 8-4, then 8-8, top of the 7th Bakersfield 11-8, bottom of 8th 11-9, bottom of 9th Bakersfield 11 Lancaster 10, boy it was a close game. We were the only ones rooting for Bakersfield, we thought for sure we would get mugged when we left, but it didn't happen. We got tickets now for Monday nights game at 7pm, in the last blog I said they were playing 5 games together, sorry, it's only 4. Tomorrows game is at 2pm and it's suppose to be 101 degrees and there is no way Dave could survive sitting in that heat for 3 hours, there is no shade during the day games.

Time for Another Update

It’s been almost a week now so I guess I should do an update too, like Kim, David Jr., and Marisa, I’ve almost gotten to the point of just checking Spanky’s blog once a month or once every two months, hint hint hint!
Still here in Acton, this Soledad Canyon Thousand Trails has got to be just about the most boring of places with the most unfriendly of people in any campground. (a lot of California campgrounds are like that) Most of the 1000 Trails in the other states the people are very friendly, Californians are basically unfriendly. Enough complaining about that. We did get to play Pickle Ball with another couple on Monday, Frank and Elona. Frank has been playing for 3 years and his wife was just learning, Frank is very good and he was telling us all about the tournaments that go on in some of the 1000 Trails parks. Come to find out the one we are at is big on Pool Tournaments and not much Pickle Ball playing, no dah! Dave and I would try and go during the week but the winds here have been really bad. The wind wasn’t blowing in the morning on Friday so we tried to play but Dave’s heel hurts him so bad, he just kept limping around.
We went to the movies Tuesday and saw “What Happens in Vegas” cute movie that’s about all I can say about it, Wednesday and Thursday just hung out. Yesterday we went to the movies again and saw National Treasure, Book of Secrets entertaining but very unrealistic. After the movie we went to Costco got a Hot Dog then headed for the baseball game. Found out that the Red Sox’s have a Class “A” Affiliate baseball team here called the “Jet Hawks” and guess who is here playing against them for the next 5 days? OK, never mind you won’t guess it because I have never heard of them but it is the “Bakersfield Blaze” who‘d have thunk? He he. Our seats were just left of the batter’s box 3 rows back from the infield. Bakersfield got their butts kicked, they scored 1 run in the 1st then let the Jet Hawks score 8 runs in the 2nd, I almost felt like I was at a Dodger Game. I remember when going to a Dodger game with mom and pop and if the other team scored like that against the Dodger’s pop would be saying “let’s go home they lost already” I felt like that with the Blaze, believe me it was a long game, it ended up being 9 to 2 game. Thank goodness during each inning the park does little entertaining things for you to watch. They had lots of kids there so they had them race across the field, they had frozen t-shirts contest to see who could put it on 1st, dance contest, just a bunch of stupid stuff. At the end of the game they had the tennis ball toss, which was you purchased tennis balls, $1 each for donation, and each tennis ball was assigned a number at the end of the game they put hula hoops all around the infield and everyone at once would throw their tennis balls and tried to get it to land in the hoops. Each hoop has its own gift certificate so who ever landed in the hoop won that prize and it doesn’t matter how many land in it they all win the prize, like I said stupid stuff but fun. Then they had a fireworks show, they do that every Friday night on home games. Saturday nights are giveaway nights to the 1st 1,500 people; they weren’t even close to 1000 people last night. Sunday is Noise Maker Day, you bring a box of macaroni & cheese from Food 4 Less and you shake it to make noise then you donate the box to help fight hunger. Monday is “Feed you face Monday” which is you buy the ticket for the reserve section ($12.00) and for $10.00 you get to eat all the hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn and peanuts you want the whole game. Nothing on Tuesday, they don’t play that day but wait; Wednesday is Weight Loss Day, probably after all the crap you ate at Monday night’s game. What you get to do is walk the warning track from 6 to 6:30pm, personally that isn’t enough time walking to walk off all of those calories. :) I don’t believe they play every Thursday but this Thursday is called Education Day Game – Skip work and enjoy the ballgame. By the way, if you buy the $12.00 tickets they give you a menu and take your food order and bring it to you, can you imagine?

One more thing and I’ll cut this boring blog off, Dave fell going out of the coach the other day. He got his right foot too close to the edge of the top step and slipped right on down, the door was closed so he didn’t keep going, and he ended up on his back on the passenger sit. Maybe that’s why his heel hurts, plus the shoulder hurts because of the Wii and playing Tennis and Bowling, I don’t know I just might have to trade him in and get a younger model. The Golf Game on the Wii is about the only game that doesn’t hurt his shoulder, but it isn’t much exercise either.

HAPPY MAMA'S DAY, AND QUICK UPDATE

Quick update of what’s been going on, which hasn’t been much. Yesterday while walking early in the morning, I believe I saw a mountain lion. I’m walking towards where the horse stable and ghost town are, and I’m looking at this large tree that has bent in half and growing towards the ground I’m walking and staring at it and right underneath it is this rather large animal laying there looking at me. I stopped dead in my tracks and just kept looking at it, it wasn’t a coyote and it wasn’t a bobcat, way too big for a bobcat. I looked behind me and there were two park employees going into the storage area right behind the family pool. I turned and walked over to them and asked what kind of wild life they had around here, and one of them said all kinds of animals. I pointed to where the cat was I saw and he asked if it was a bobcat, I said NO WAY too big. He then said that some mountain lions have been spotted and then we saw it moving. He said it was waiting for small animals to attack which he said it looks like it just caught something. He advised me not to walk out on the trail by myself because sometimes they will attack people if they are all alone, needless to say I went back the other way. Damn, I didn’t have my camera with me for once.
When I got back from walking, Dave and I went and played pickle ball, and a guy was driving by and asked if we would be around in the afternoon, we said yes and set a time of 2pm to meet him and his wife to play pickle ball. We got together at 2 and played till 4, we kept switching partners so that adds to the fun of the game.
Between riding bikes, walking, pickle ball and the Wii game, I have some really sore muscles. Haven’t got to do these workouts since we left Bakersfield, man it sucks getting old, I sure am feeling everything now, but I’m not going to slow down. Plus, I have gotten some bug bites, the ones on the arms aren’t that bad but the ones on the backside of my toes really itch.

Mother’s day, I went walking this morning, with my camera and walking stick, looking for the mountain lion (if that’s what it was) again, no luck today. After walking, the restaurant here at 1000 Trails was having a free pancake breakfast for all mothers so we walked over to that. We stood in line for 25 min. got seated and waited another 10 min. for service and then another 30 min. to get my 2 pancakes and Dave’s 2 eggs and bacon. He never even got his toast, I’m not a big pancake lover so we had planned on sharing anyway, so I gave him one of the pancakes and he gave me some bacon. Wasn’t much of a breakfast but, hey, you can’t knock free, I’m all for free these days. After that we headed for Lowes and Wal-Mart, breakfast didn’t cost much so we needed to go somewhere we could spend money.
This afternoon we played pickle ball, the couple we played with yesterday had to leave this morning, so we were back one on one. The wind was really blowing, which made it really hard to play, so we quit after about an hour, if that long. While riding our bikes back, I went up one lane and Dave went up the other and as I turned the corner coming towards our coach I see Dave go down on his bike. I see the bike falling over and Dave rolling, it was kind of like in slow motion, I thought he was faking it, I should know better. I ride up and ask “what the hell are you doing”, like I said I thought he was faking it, I saw the blood coming out on both arms and he was holding his right hand, OH NO! Luckily he only sprained his baby finger and the blood was just little scratches. I told him if he didn’t want to play pickle ball anymore all he had to do was say so, he didn’t have to hurt himself.
Anyway, that’s my little recap, sorry it wasn’t so little. Dave has iced his finger and taped it to the next finger, he is having a gin martini and cooking dinner now so I guess Mother’s Day wasn’t a total loss, breakfast wasn’t great but I know dinner will be great.

YEA PICKLE BALL AGAIN AND BUYER BEWARE

We moved yesterday to Soledad Canyon Thousand Trails, it’s still in Acton about 6 miles from where we were. At least now we don’t have to pay for camping here for the next 2 weeks.
Here they have 2 tennis courts with the Pickle Ball Lines painted on, so yea, we can play pickle ball again. Which we went out and practiced yesterday and this morning we played a couple games. This TT RV Park is really big; I can get my 5 miles in 1st thing in the morning with no problem. They have an adult pool and Jacuzzi; they have a big family pool on the other end of the park. They have train rides, horseback riding, Tee Pees, western town, but of course most of the stuff isn’t open yet, Memorial Day weekend it will be.
About a month ago, Jodi Alton told me she was at Vons in Simi and did her shopping; she used her Von’s card and a debit card to pay for everything. That night David got a call from some lady saying that Von’s had messed up and rang her groceries up on Jodi’s debit card. David asked Jodi if she had her receipt and of course she didn’t. Vons had told the lady that they were going to have to re-ring up her groceries and she got pissed off at them and said forget it, but she did get the name off the debit card and did some research and found David and Jodi’s phone number and called them to tell them what had happened. Jodi called Von’s and they said she would have to come down to the store to get it all cleared up. She went down there and had asked why they didn’t take the ladies groceries off her debit card and they said they couldn’t do it unless she (Jodi) was there. Then she asked why hadn’t they called her about this mishap, and they said they didn’t have any info on her. She said she had used her Von’s ID Code and she filled out all the info on her to even get that card. They manager had no excuse for that one, I believe. Sorry, I’m getting old and can’t remember the whole story, but Jodi did get the credit back but the whole thing was just stupid. Thank goodness that stranger took the time to call them otherwise they may not have known, the way prices going up on groceries these days. Anyway, while Dave and I were in Bishop we stopped at Vons to get a couple things, Dave used his credit card and the checker was bagging everything up and then handed us the bags and said Thank You. I said to Dave did you get a receipt, and the checker said YES he had given him one. As we were walking away, I’m looking in our bags for the receipt when the checker all of a sudden calls us back. The person behind us only a couple items and had rung their stuff on our credit card. The only reason they caught it was because after ringing up the two items and hitting the total button the total was too high for those two items, NO DUH! The checker said he was so embarrassed and was very sorry, and then he took the items off our bill then gave us our receipt. What are the odds of that happening to 2 Alton’s in a month, so buyer beware, always make sure you get your receipt.

Went the other day and saw Ironman, pretty good movie until the end, the fighting between Ironman and who ever Jeff Bridges was playing was a little corny.

SOMETHING I THINK DAVE WON'T DO AGAIN

We have landed again in Acton, instead of Banning. Where the 395 and the 14 fwy meet it was still 200 miles to Banning and only 80 miles to where we had to be in 4 days, so it was much cheaper to stay closer to where we had to be on Thursday.

Once we got to this RV Park, which is very nice, we unhooked the tow car and Dave followed the person to the site we were going to be on. Dave was pulling in and I pulled the car into the next site, well, I look up and can see he is going to take out the electrical hookup and this stupid broad is just looking at the box and the coach with her shoulders hunched up. I jump out of the car and yell for him to stop, which he did thank goodness, if not he would have dented his side of the coach not my side for once. :)
As he is slowing getting himself out of the mess the front tire goes off the cement slab and I heard a loud pop, honest it sounded just like the tire popped but it hadn’t. We got backed up then lined up again and managed to get ourselves parked in this not very wide cement slab.
By the way, before we had left Bishop, that morning, Dave had dumped the gray and the black tanks, as he always does. While we were driving and made a rest stop, I had pushed the black tank button to see what it said and it popped up with 50% full. I asked Dave if he had dumped both tanks and he said “yes” and I told him what the black showed and he said “oh, it has shit on the sides, no big deal” NO SHIT IT HAS SHIT ON THE SIDES” That’s why it’s called a black tank, duh.
OK, back to getting set up in Acton, that last thing I just wrote is important to the story. When Dave puts the hose in the sewer line he ask me if the black still reads 50% and I say “yes” so he dumps it again. After that he decides to rinse the black tank out, which what you need to do is fill it to the top with water and then drain it again. He closes off the black tank and starts filling it, to help it along he puts the toilet brush down the toilet to hold open the opening so water fills from the fresh water holding tank too into the black tank. We get everything else set-up then he sits at his computer and calls David Jr., I’m sitting at the table behind him sewing a button on some shorts. He and David gossip, talk shop, gossip more ect. He finishes the phone call and starts to tell me about it, I go to get up because I had finished sewing and I step in a pool of water. I say what the hell, I’m thinking its my washer because I had started a load of laundry, Dave screams OH SHIT, then I realize it wasn’t the washer. I go running to the back, take the brush out of the toilet and started grabbing towels; Dave went running outside to shut the outside water off. Talk about a mess, we still have the fans drying the carpet and the rugs hanging outside trying to get them dry. We had the rugs out all night and probably would have been dry, but the RV Park’s sprinklers came on a wet them again. Luckily it didn’t get the carpet in the bedroom just under the refrig and at the front of the table. After we got the floors dry, Dave got out the pinesol and washed the floors then took all the towels to the laundry room and got that all cleaned again.
Best thing of all, after all of that the BLACK TANK READING IS NOW 0% where it should have been in the beginning, no more shit on the sides, I guess!

More News to follow right now just a quick update

Just a quick update on our Sunday with Joe, Caryn and finally Carlee. Our travels today need a blog all by it self, watch for the next blog tomorrow sometime.

Anyway, we got together with Caryn and Joe around 11 and Dave and Joe worked on Vance's computer, Caryn and I just talked. We then drove up to Tom's Place, for lunch. When we left Bishop it was pretty warm, Tom's Place is going back towards Mammoth and there was some snow around and pretty cool. We had a great lunch then afterwards they showed us some more creeks and camping places, plus a lot more but don't want to bore you. Sunday night Carlee got back from Orange County, school outing, and they came over to the coach for dinner.(couldn't afford anymore meals out:) ) Carlee started playing on the Wii game systems we just got and she mastered all of them, she knew all the enter keys and everything, KIDS, what shits they are. After dinner she put on the boxing game and she knocked out Joe and Dave, we laughed so much, they got going about 9:30, it was a lot of fun. We did really have a good time and it was really nice to have one on one visit time, boy, I learned so much about how Caryn and Jimmy grew up with Vance and Jan.
That's it for this blog, the next one will sound like we are beginning RV'ers again. (But then again, I don't think we will ever be experts)

Saturday Night Now

It's Saturday night and Caryn and Joe just left for home, boy, we have had a great 2 days so far. I had mentioned in the last blog that Joe had called us from the hospital and that Caryn had broken her wrist while skiing. They got back into town around 3 and came by the coach before going home, we sat and visited awhile then they went home and then went over to their place around 5:30pm. We had a tour of their house, which is very nice, they sure had to do a lot to it to make it what it is today, great job you guys! We then drove over to the fairgrounds because they were having a food sampling called "The taste of Sierra" that the Bishop Chamber put on with a bunch of different restaurants. We got a good variety of foods to sample and a whole lot of different desserts. Thank goodness I was way too full to try too many of the desserts, notice I said "too many" I only tried 4 I think. Caryn was a trooper during this whole food sampling she only had one hand, thank goodness it was the left that was broke, watching her trying to hold a plate and eat was interesting.

Saturday we got together with them at the monster antique swap meet that was going on at the fairgrounds today. It seems this weekend there is a lot of stuff going on at the fairgrounds, home show, gem and mineral show, barnyard show, ect., Bishop is really a happening place :) After the swap meet Joe took us driving around to a bunch of the different lakes at the top of one mountain, with the snow all around us, it was really breath taking scenery. We stopped and had lunch then drove around some more, this place is really nice, maybe 10K people and not growing at all, which is something Dave and I wanted, a nice small community to live in, but it is still in California and that's what we don't want. We then went to their printing shop and got a tour of it, one hell of an operation they have there, and a great deal they got 3 years ago. My brother, Mike, would just love the stuff Joe has here, Mike you need to come up for a visit, and bring Trini. Of course, everyone in town knows Caryn and Joe so everywhere we go they have to stop and ask Caryn what happened to her. By the way, when she broke her wrist, she was on the easy part of the down hill slope and Joe was ahead of her so when she fell he didn't know anything about it. When he reached the bottom and waited a couple minutes and didn't see her he went right away and got help for her, he just knew she had to be hurt. As the rescue guy was going to take off in his snow mobile Caryn came down the hill and was holding her arm up. Since Joe didn't hear her or see her fall she had to pick herself up, get her skis, goggles, gloves and poles and still ski down the mountain, yea what a trooper. When they walked into the emergency room the check in person just looked at her and yelled to the staff in back they had a broken left wrist to take care of, Joe and Caryn didn't have to wait at all. OK so that's the skiing story.

After leaving the shop we went back to their place, then Dave and I went back to the coach. Later we went out for Chinese food and had a great meal together, tomorrow they said they had more places to show us, so we are looking forward to that.

Landed in Bishop California visiting more family

We arrived in Bishop today and are staying a couple days to visit with Caryn, Joe and Carlee. Dave just got a call from Joe and Caryn and Joe are at the hospital, Caryn broke her wrist. It seems like Carlee is down at Disneyland, with her school band, so Caryn and Joe closed down the office and decided to have a sky day in Mammoth. Haven't got the full info yet will either talk to them later tonight or see them tomorrow and get the low down.
I must say "Thank you" to my brother, Mike, I called him because I only had Caryn's shop number and he got me other phone numbers and even called Jimmy, who told Mike, that they were off skiing today.
The drive to Bishop was just beautiful, driving around Lake Tahoe was just breath taking, it took us quite awhile to get here because it is mostly 2 lanes roads but well worth it.

South Lake Tahoe, Nevada

We got headed out before noon and have now landed in the parking lot of the Horizon Casino in South Lake Tahoe Nevada. Snow is still on the mountains, very pretty. The drive here was mostly on 2 lane roads so needless to say we had some cars behind us that weren't to happy, oh well, we took the pull outs when ever we could.

Uncle Bob kicked us out

We drove to Oakland yesterday, left at 7:30am got to the hospital a little after 10, yes, Bob is still in the hospital. We had to wait 15 min. because they were changing the dressing on his foot. When we talked to Bob on Monday afternoon he sounded so good but then he goes and gets pneumonia in his right lung so now he has that and his foot infection won't seem to heal either. What shocked me though was seeing Uncle Bob with a pierced ear now, he said he did it a year ago, very funny looking on an 80 year old man with a hanging earlobe. Anyway, Jim showed up after we got there and we were all sitting there visiting then Bob said he wasn't feeling good and asked us to leave, well how rude :) So we drove for almost 3 hours and got to visit for 40 minutes, oh well.
Hey, forgot to mention on Tuesday we went and purchased a Wii game and Dave got it all hooked up last night so we were playing bowling and laughing so much, it is fun.
We decided to leave a day early so we are getting already now and will head out for Lake Tahoe this afternoon and spend the night in a casino somewhere on our way to Bishop.