Colorado River Oasis - Ehrenberb, AZ

Feb 16^th – 26^th...Got out of Indian Waters at 950a and arrived at Colorado River Oasis park in Ehrenberg around 1p after loosing an hour. We are back in Mountain time zone. We were fortunate enough to get the last site on the water – 100. The wind was blowing but it was pretty warm .

On Sun., the 17^th we drove to the 'Desert Bar – Nellie E Saloon” about 10 miles north of Parker. We met Dad, Elaine, Doug, Fran, Tammie and Elaine's son & family there. The last 5 miles is a dirt road that is very rough! The place was not quite what we expected...it was larger and many, many more people than we would have thought. The parking was difficult and some lines were long but it was a neat place! We stopped in Parker for a McDonald's before heading back home.

Mon. the 18^th we made the 85 mile trip to Los Algodones. We arrived around 830a for Dixie's appointment to have the broken crown fixed. Dr. Rafael pretty much started over – a bit more grinding and a new impression. We were advised we had to wait until 3pm for the crown to be done. We had a cup or coffee and decided to go into Yuma to a movie. We dined at Jack In The Box and saw “Silver Lining – Playbook”. It was good! From there we made a Walmart stop and then headed back to Algodones to listen to Pepe play some tunes at “El Gourmet” outdoor cafe. He just recorded a CD that we had to buy. We then went to the street TACO place and had fish & shrimp tacos (we hadn't had one there in all our trips down this season). We headed to the dentist at 3p and ended up waiting for the Dr. until just before 4p. They wanted Dr. Rafael to complete the 'project' so it was worth the wait. He put the crown in and it fit fine – no grinding needed. All is good with the crown! We checked out the customs line and it was extremely long so we decided to go listen to Pepe again. We went to get in line at 5p thinking it would have gone down.....WRONG! We got in line at the very end of the walkway – almost to the road. It took 1 hr and 10 minutes to get through customs...not as bad as we thought it would be.

On Thru. The 21^st we made a trip into Quartzsite. We were surprised to see that many of the vendor had left already. Even the stop that I get jewelry supplies at was closed for the season. We made a few other jewelry supply stops and then decided to go to Silly Al's for a Pizza/Beer.

Friday afternoon we made a trip to Blythe to the grocery store and Kmart. We drove around town a bit to see what was there. It's bigger than we thought but not much there.

The rest of the time in Ehrenberg was pretty uneventful. Dixie did 11 haircuts, we got things ready for our Puerto Vallarta trip, and we hung out! We had a very windy day on the 24^th but did get to the pool for a bit on the 23^rd. We went to the firepit on our last night and had fun visiting with several couples.

Tues., the 26^th we headed the 86 miles to Elaine's house in Lake Havasu City. We will park there while we go to PVR. Doug & Fran arrived in the afternoon. We leave for Las Vegas tomorrow!