Settling In

We spent most of today settling in at Valle del Oro. This is our site for the next few months. Basically we have the space between the two palm trees.


I got somewhat ambitious and washed the interior windows and vacuumed the screens. I cleaned out the bugs and the beginnings of mildew in the tracks. The windows still look dirty as the outsides are  pretty bad. We will wait and see if we can get a mobile repair truck in to seal the leaks around the back air conditioner before we look for a crew that can do the badly needed wash and wax of Auntie Violet (don't want anyone up on the roof with a hose until we get those leaks taken care of!).

I am NOT a happy camper! We got everything unloaded from Toad II and the RV and the rod that holds my gossiping birds is missing. I KNOW I loaded it in the car! Forry thinks he may have taken it out somewhere along the line and forgot to put it back?!!

This is the view looking down the line from us. There are three empty sites that we were told were all reserved. Not sure when they are all supposed to arrive...

This is looking on the other side of the street from us. Those are all Park Models (the left sides) with "Arizona Rooms" attached. A good share of this RV resort is filled with park models that people either rent or buy. Two of the ones directly behind us are currently unoccupied. I understand that many people wait until the first of January to come down after celebrating the holidays up north.

About three-thirty Tom and Juni came over ready to go out for an early dinner. We drove out to Tia Rosa's (our favorite Mexican restaurant). Turns out they are now closed on Sundays, but open on Mondays... 

So after considerable discussion, we went for Plan B -- barbecue. Another favorite place is Waldo's Barbecue. Fortunately they were open. This is another one of those places you probably wouldn't go to unless someone had told you about it. (We had stayed at a nearby RV park a few years ago where the staff recommended it highly.) Juni ordered a Pulled Pork Nacho Plate as an appetizer that was exceptionally good along with some deep-fried dill pickles. Each couple ordered a side of ribs that along with the accompanying two sides, provided more than enough good barbecue for tomorrow as well.

After dinner we went back to Juni and Tom's to meet the new addition to their family. Cassie is a seven-month old Yorkie that Juni bottle-fed from birth after the mother didn't survive. She's a little live wire and has joined her full sister Izzie (from a previous litter) and Tica, the toy poodle. Fun!