Our RV Adventures

With the heavy rains overnight, and continuing into this morning, our walking was on hold for today. But tomorrow looks good.

I did put a call into another welding shop about repairing my screen door hinge and left a message, but haven’t heard back yet.

After a quiet, goof-off afternoon, about 2:30 Jan and I headed down to the Star Cinema Grill for dinner and Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the movie.

As I’ve mentioned before, Star Cinema Grill,  and others like Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Studio Movie Grill, etc., put the concept of ‘dinner’ and ‘theater’ together for real.

So rather then getting a rubber chicken dinner and a has-been star from an 70’s sitcom in a bad production of Harvey, you get a nice meal served at your seats and a first-run movie.

In many cases these are older, smaller movie theaters remodeled for dinner theater use, by taking out every other row of seats and installing small tables.

Each table has a slot underneath for menus and order tickets, and a call button on top. After checking the menu, you write what you want on the ticket and then press your call button. A few minutes later a waitperson, dressed all in black, picks up your order. The menu is in the Chili’s/Applebee’s vein with appetizers, salads, burgers, sandwiches, pizza, and desserts. You can check out their menu here. Star Cinema Grill Menu

As usual, we both went with our ‘goldie-oldies’ with Jan getting the Mushroom-Cheese Quesadillas with Fajita Chicken, and I got the 3 Amigos appetizers, picking Texas Toothpicks (Beer-battered Onion and Jalapeno Strips), Chicken Tenders, and Southwest Eggrolls.

We try to get to the theater about 30 minutes early, which lets us get seated and get our food right before the movie starts. Then about half way through the movie, the waitperson drops off your check.

Another nice thing, although we didn’t this time, is if halfway though the movie, you decide you want some popcorn, a beer, or a margarita, just press your call button.

As far as the movie, we both really liked it, with a good story, great effects, some old friends, and some new faces. A Force Awakens is a worthy sequel to the first three movies, (we won’t talk about the last three) and makes us look forward to the next two.

We did change our minds about something however. We had planned to show our grandson Landon the very first Star Wars movie on DVD, and then take him see this one. But that idea went out the window in the first 15 minutes or so. Parts of this movie are just too violent for a 5 year old. So now we’ll just  show him the first one only.

I did find one thing unusual about the theater however. In fact I thought I had walked into the wrong one.

The Men’s bathroom has no urinals.

None. Just 8 stalls

What’s up with that?

On the other hand, if you want a completely different way to have dinner, check out Dinner in the Sky.

You can join 21 other diners as you’re hoisted 165 feet in the air, where you’re served a 3 star meal, in some cases, by famous chefs. You can even get married up there.

This one is in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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And this one is Prague, Czech Republic.

Started in Belgium, the concept has traveled to 45 countries around the world, with over 5000 events.

And they’ve never dropped anyone yet.

How ‘bout it, Nick? Wanna join me for dinner?

I’ll treat.

Thought for the Day:

Here’s a riddle:

During a recent password audit by a security company, it was found that an employee was using the password:
“MickeyMinniePlutoHueyDeweyLouieDonaldGoofySacramento”

When asked why she had such a long password, she rolled her eyes and said, “Hello! It has to be at least 8 characters and include at least one capital.”

What is her hair color?

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Even though it rained heavily overnight, and it was still cloudy this morning, we still wanted to get our walk in, so we headed out, wearing long sleeves. But about half way around our 1 mile loop, the sun came out . . . and it got HOT.

So after our mid-walk break for coffee and breakfast, we both changed into short sleeves for the rest of our walk. And at 1.65 miles, the same as yesterday, and 25:47 min/miles, only two seconds slower than yesterday, it was a good walk. But that may be it until Friday since we’re looking at thunderstorms tonight and all day tomorrow.

But it is weather after all, so who knows.

Right before we left on our walk, Janice and Dave Evans dropped by to say ‘Hi’ on their way home from getting groceries. We made plans to get together for dinner sometime soon. Looking forward to it.

Later, back at the rig, I put in a call to a local glass place to see about them coming out to the park and remounting the passenger side windshield of the rig. Back last year during our blow-out repair in Prescott, AZ, the repair shop managed to crack the windshield during the repairs. And now it had started coming loose.

Windshield made it all the way through the blow-out itself, the very rough ride as I brought the rig to a stop on the shoulder, and the rocky ride on the trailer on the way to the repair shop.

But the repair place used a 15,000 pound jack like this one to lift the front of the rig about 4 feet off the ground to work underneath. And somehow along the way they torqued the front end enough to crack the glass.

Ironically, this same windshield had been replaced just a year earlier while we were up in Elkhart, IN in 2014, after it was cracked when the rig was tilted over during a rear axle inner wheel seal replacement.

And then in 2008, the driver side was cracked when we leveled the rig in 10° weather while up in Whitehouse, YT.

The glass shop guy had me text him some photos of the separation. The main one looks like this.

This is the top right corner of the windshield where the glass and the gasket have pulled away from the frame. So now I’ll just wait to hear from the glass guy.

Later I changed out my EVO canister filter for the first time since last August, right before we left to gate guard. It seemed like our water pressure was down a little, so I dug out my spare cartridge and headed outside.

And this is what I found.

This is a 5 micron filter and it seems to do a good job cleaning up the shore water. And the color change shows that. And the fact that the old one is about twice as heavy as the new one. This is the second filter I’ve replaced, with the first one lasting a little over 4 months and this one lasting 5 months. Not bad, I guess.

For dinner Jan heated up our leftovers from last night’s Vernon’s Kuntry Katfish visit, with catfish, hushpuppies, fried okra, and some of her loaded baked potato, it was plenty.

Jan also heated up a can of BUSH’S Bourbon and Brown Sugar Grillin’ Beans to round out a really good meal.

Wrapping up for today, here’s something really neat. It’s a tear-drop style camper built from 215,158 Lego blocks.

It has working lights, running water and Lego food on the stove.

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Here’s a short video about the construction of the camper.

And you can read the whole story here: Lego Camper

Tomorrow we plan on having dinner and a movie at the Star Cinema Grill here in Conroe. We’ve been at the one in Webster, TX a number of times, but this will be a first for the Conroe one.

The Star Cinema Grill is the perfect combo for a evening out, with no rushing from dinner to make the movie on time, because it’s all in the same place.

The menu is on the same scale as an Applebee’s or Chili’s, and at least at the one in Webster, it’s always been good.

I’ll have more tomorrow.

Thought for the Day:

“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180)

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