It was busy yesterday!

Yesterday morning started off with us going to Sugar House, Ut., where Katie takes her art lesson from Suzzane Jarvis.  I go along merely to accompany her and make sure things go OK for her (like I know something about art, right?) by dropping her off at the studio and then going a block away to spend the time at Barnes & Noble, to surf and read books that are there while sitting in the Starbucks coffee shop.  It worked out pretty good, except my computer battery died a couple of minutes prior to the time that Katie got out of her lesson.  That worked out OK anyway because I left B&N to go park in front of the studio and went in to help her get out.  Her time with Suzzy was good, and she'd started on a portrait of Aubrey last week and began putting some color in this week.  I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product in a few weeks.

We then hustled back up to the Layton Sam's Club to get some gas because our car was saying that it was getting rather thirsty.  This seems to happen whenever the gas gauge needle gets close to pointing to the "E".  Probably happens to everyone else too, huh?  Then to the local health food restaurant, McDonalds, for McRibs.  I think I've had my fill of McRibs for the year.  After that, we waited for 1 PM when our Tax Preparer class started.  It lasted about 2 1/2 hours, and was very insightful in how to start the process of preparing taxes for folks that seem to want other folks to prepare their income tax return.  More next Tuesday.

As Riley's birthday party is gonna happen tomorrow, Amanda & Katie are into making the house party-able with Minecraft stuff here and Minecraft stuff there.  James is going to set up a multi-player game of Minecraft for the kids when they get here.  Riley is getting more and more excited, and looking forward to Saturday at 11 AM more with every minute.  My job is to continue doing the dishes and taking out the garbage, and hanging the pinata where it needs to be hung, along with writing this blog.  I think I can handle all that, but I'll let ya know how the party goes after it's over with.  

The Travelogue   12/06/2011

When I left off, we were still at Wilderness Lakes 1000 Trails, near Menifee, Ca., but I'm hoping you didn't get the impression that we were just sitting around.  No sirree bob! In addition to the above pictures showing a couple of the activities we did, we also found a disc golf course in Temecula, Ca., called Paloma Del Sol disc golf course.  We went there two or three times as I recall while we were in Menifee, and each time, we showed great form, right?

Sometime later, I'm thinking a week, we packed up and moved up to Cherry Valley, Ca to Cherry Valley Lakes RV Park, which is part of the other RV resort organization that we belong to, Colorado River Adventures (or simply CRA).  We'd been to Cherry Valley some time prior to when we were there then, and I'd learn to not like it much simply because the campsites look like this:

The campsites were basically wide driveways with full hookups (fhu) for two RV's back to back giving enough room for the two RV's with their slides out, although ya gotta make sure they don't hit each other.  You can see that there is a strip of ground is about 10' - 12' feet wide that's shared by the two opposing RV's.  Makes for tight quarters, but there's usually a good amount of respect from everyone for everyone, so everyone lives with it.  Still the same, it's not what I really wanted in a campsite, ya know?  But it was free with our yearly payment to CRA, and conveniently located in the area being only 31 miles from Wilderness Lakes.  And once we got settled, it really wasn't that bad.   There's a nice, but small, pool and hottub,

a park nearby that we were able to walk the doggies every morning basking in the sun as we walked,

a couple of ponds (I think those are the lakes, ok?  Maybe use your imagination a little?) with ducks,

lounges for family and teens, and areas for ourdoor games, like horseshoes, tetherball, and volleyball,

I mean the place wasn't entirely bad as we talked to a few campers that were repeat campers there a bunch who loved the place.  But I gotta tell ya that the worst part of it was that I-10 is right on the other side of the wall in the above picture.  And on the other side of that are railroad tracks going alongside I-10.  If ya look at the houses on the other side of the wall, and use your imagination really hard (harder than ya did for the "lakes" above, OK?), you can imagine the sound of automobile, truck and railroad traffic coming from the area on the other side of the fence and this side of the houses.  Loud isn't it.  But, if you're like us, or the many other campers, ya get used to those sounds and sleep just fine anyway.

OK, while your imagination is still whirling, I'm gonna close for the night.  Hope ya had a blessed day.