Monthly Archives: August 2010
Tooth Fairy gone bad…?
About 12:30 pm Jan and I headed out to the local Bob Evans restaurant for a lunch of Cranberry Pecan Salads before making a stop at the nearby WalMart to stock up on more stuff. We never seem to have enough stuff.
Coming back tot the rig, we stopped at a CVS pharmacy so I could return the I-Zoom toll pass I bought yesterday. It turns out that the I-Zoom pass does not work like the toll passes in Texas.
I had thought that having a pass for the one month a year we are in this area would be worth it for the convenience and slight discount on each trip. However digging into the fine print of the Terms and Conditions (page 27 of a 28 page document) I discovered that they charge you a $1.00 a month “maintenance fee” whether I use the tag or not. That means I would be paying $11.00 a year for the months we are not here, completely eliminating any savings.
Plus, you can not suspend the account, you can only cancel it by turning in your pass.
Getting back to the rig about 2:30 pm, I decided it was a good time for a nap.
And it was.
A little after 4:30 our daughter Brandi called with the latest baby Landon update. Everything is coming along fine, and he’s still on schedule for the first week in September.
About 5:30 Nick and Terry came over and we headed out for dinner at El Maguey Mexican restaurant. El Maguey is our favorite Mexican restaurant in this area, and it didn’t disappoint us this time, either. We’ve also gotten Nick hooked on their white cheese queso dip.
Coming back to the rig, Nick took us on a detour past the site of an old dentist office. The dentist used to save all the teeth he extracted, keeping them for years. Apparently the Health Department finally told him he had to get rid of them, since they were unsanitary. To get back at them he had them cast into a concrete block, using the teeth in place of the stone aggregate.
Nick said that the last time he saw the block it was bigger, so we don’t know what happened to the rest of it.
But a closer look shows that the concrete has started to erode leaving the many teeth very visible. Click on the photo for a closer view.
We got back to the rig about 7:30 and sent Nick home to get back to work on the latest issue of the Gypsy Journal RV newspaper. We’re keeping him pretty much chained to his computer until he gets it done.
Tomorrow I’ll take 3 cargo bay doors over to Phoenix Commercial Paint so that Michele can start doing her usual excellent job on our coach.
More tomorrow…
Quote of the Day:
"A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice."
Bill Cosby
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Sex and RunPee…
*** The link for RunPee has been fixed ***
After a lunch of sandwiches and chips here in the rig, we decided to have another try at seeing Sex and the City 2 over in Mishawaka at the same theater we saw Iron Man 2 the other day.
We left about noon, but first stopped off at CVS Drugs to purchase an I-Zoom toll road pass to use while we’re here in Elkhart. Not only is it faster, but the toll to Mishawaka is $.40 instead of $.50.
Since Sex and the City 2 is a long movie at 2 hrs and 30 minutes, Jan used RunPee, a website that lets you enter the movie title and then it gives you the time into the movie and how long you have to…wait for it…Run Pee.
And it worked great. At 74 minutes into the movie, Jan made a break for the restroom and was back before the end of a scene where nothing really happened.
After the movie, we stopped off at a nearby Michael’s and then a Sam’s Club right down the street.
Getting back to the park about 4:30, we set up with Nick to head out to supper at North Garden Chinese Buffet about 5:30 pm.
Nick said Al Hesselbart would also be joining us for dinner. Al is the historian at the nearby RV/MH Hall of Fame and recently returned from a trip to China as a guest of the Chinese government.to discuss RV’ing and the budding RV industry in China.
We had a great time at dinner listening to Al as he regaled us with the tales of his travels. We had a great dinner and a lot of fun.
We got back to the coach a little after 7 and let Nick go back to work on the next issue of the Gypsy Journal.
We did get some more photos of our daughter’s bridal shower, wedding , and baby shower, and some more granddaughter Piper pics.
Here’s a photo of our beautiful daughter Brandi at her bridal shower.
Brandi, Brandi, and Shawna at Brandi’s baby shower.
And here’s our daughter-in-law Linda, our granddaughter Piper, and our son Chris at Brandi’s wedding.
And here’s Piper in Times Square in July of last year.
And here’s Piper at F.A.O. Schwartz Toy Store in New York City, also last year.
More tomorrow…
Quote for the Day:
“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston Churchill
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