Pizza pizza!

One of the great things about this warranty checkout trip is that we are seeing Max's family. We got to see great-nieces and nephews that we hadn't yet met. Time does fly...... I mentioned that the whole gang went out to dinner on Saturday. You can see just how large the crowd was! :)

On Sunday, Dave and Patsy came into town for a visit. Of course, any visit isn't complete without food!

Hideaway pizza, as you can see, is voted the best pizza in OKC. We can attest to the fact that it is really good pizza.

The RV park that we stayed at in OKC was actually very nice. Although we were sandwiched between I44 on the north and 63rd street and Remington Park on the south. We discovered that on the weekends, Remington Park leaves their humongo lights on all night. Not really a problem tho' as it gave us plenty of lighting when we had to get up at 4am with the dogs. grin. We were far enough from the freeway that the traffic didn't really matter -- at least until early this morning (Monday). Holy cow, there is a LOT of traffic zooming down that freeway starting very early in the morning. No doubt, folks headed into town for work. Sure glad that isn't us!

We loaded up this morning and are now headed home. A short, but very enjoyable trip!

Cheers!

Warranty Trip

The traveling season has begun! Yay!

It's hard to believe, but the one year warranty on our new fifth wheel is about to expire. I just can't believe that we've had it this long! Anyway, since it has been in storage all winter, we figured that it would be good to do a short trip in order to de-winterize the trailer and to ensure that everything is still working before the warranty expires.

So we loaded up on Thursday (after getting it back from having a hydraulic leak fixed) and headed to Oklahoma City on Friday. Our friends, Ron and Judy O, joined up with us in OKC on Friday as well. And it has been a great weekend! :)

We ended up going out to the Cattleman's Steakhouse in the Stockyards Distric of OKC for dinner on Friday night. And yes, it really IS in the middle of an active stockyard area. The atmosphere is very old school.... like one of those restaurants that has been around forever and updated very little during that time. But the food was awesome. Steaks... yum!

On Saturday, we spent some time going through the RV show at the fairgrounds. We came to the conclusion that, while the very long fifth wheels are nice, there really isn't anything we saw that we would trade ours in on. Grin. That's a good thing because we're still figuring out how this one works!

Then to satisfy the girls (of course), we power-shopped the outlet mall here in OKC. I didn't break the bank, so Max thought it was a good shopping trip.

And Saturday evening, we met up with Max's family to go out for some awesome Mexican food in Edmond. We had been to Ted's a couple of times in the past and have always loved both the food and the service. We did keep them on their toes as we were a party of 20!

After we went over to Max's sister and brother-in-law's house -- Charmi and Joe, to help Charmi celebrate her birthday. Nothing like topping off a mega Mexican meal with ice cream and cake. :) This is Charmi, opening some of her bd gifts. And you can see Max's brother and sister-in-law, Dave and Patsy, in the background.

We were also celebrating Max and I's wedding anniversary. 23 years. My!

The weather here has been all over the weather map. On Friday and Saturday, it was sunny and in the upper 70s to low 80s. Today, we woke to clouds and about 35 degrees. Brrrrrr.

But that didn't stop us from a bit more shopping. Ron and Judy had to head back today (they DO still have to work for a few more months). So after they loaded up, we all trooped over to the Camping World store. I had quite a list built up, so I made up for what I didn't spend at the mall yesterday. Yikes.

After that, Ron and Judy headed back north for home and we headed back to the RV park. It's a perfect dreary day to cozy-up inside and catch up on my reading.

Cheers!

Snow melt!

Well it's time to de-winterize the baby and start our adventures!

Actually, first we had to start with a trip to the rv place. During the winter, we discovered that we have a small hydraulic leak in the fifth wheel. It took a couple of trips to the storage place to figure out where exactly the darned leak was.

So we had the appointment scheduled and then "BAM" -- snow, lots of it!

Some of you may have heard that a couple of weeks ago we ended up with somewhere around 21 inches of snow here. Those are the days that I'm glad that I'm retired and don't have to get out in it! :)

After about a week of melting, all that was left were the really big piles of snow so we decided to take the fifth wheel in to get the leak fixed.

Who woulda figured that we would need snow and ice melt to get it out of storage?!?! Sheesh.

The building where we store the fifth wheel actually has it's open side to the north. And the way it is situated, that side of the building doesn't get any direct sun. So there was about an 8 foot swath of ice and snow across the front. We were lucky to find a hardware store nearby that still had some ice melt. So after about 20 pounds of it and 30 minutes or so, we were able to pull out.

So later this week we get to load up and take a de-winterizing trip to OKC. Let the adventures begin!

Cheers,

Dr. J