November...Our week at Ridgeview was pretty busy. Our first night we got together for dinner with Gene & Susie and Tom & Diane (couples from our FMCA chapter in Montana). We went to the movie 'Captain Phillips' that was very good. We attended the BBQ cookoff where we had some great 'Montana' BBQ and listened to some music. We visited with Gene/Susie and Frank/Katherine (Susie's sister). On Sunday with golfed with them as well. The golf game wasn't great as we haven't played since June!
Tuesday, the 5th we moved down the road 95 miles to Earp, CA to Emerald Cove RV Resort. It's on the Colorado River and looks across the river to Parker, AZ. We lucked out and got a site on the second row from the river. There is no one in front of us so we have a great view of the water.
Fri.
we visited George & Gail (friends from Canada) at their park
(Riverland). It turned out they were only about a mile from our
park.
On
Sat. the 9th we started celebrating Mike's Birthday a day
early! We drove to the Desert Bar...the 6 miles drive off the
highway is still as bad as it ever was. We had a fun time listening
to the band. We did however decided not to eat there as the lines
were long. We opted to stop at the Casino back in Parker where we
had a sandwich outside overlooking the river. Later that evening we
went over to the RV parks outside bar and listened to some karaoke.
Sunday,
Dixie went to church at the park and then cooked a Cornish Hen dinner
with all the trimming for Mike's Birthday. Of course we also had to
have Birthday cake!
On
the 12th we drove the 47 miles to Quartzsite, AZ . We
parked at our friends, Bob & Cheryl's. The sold their motorhome
and bought a house in Rainbow Acres, a subdivision about 7 miles out
of Quartzsite and they had an rv hook up. We stayed their until the
21st. While there we made a few trips to town so Dixie
could stock up on jewelry making supplies. We also shared a few
dinners and happy hours! On the 15th we went to Silly
Al's with Bob & Cheryl and had pizza.
On
Sunday, the 17th we got up early and drove to Lake Havasu
City. Danny flew to Great Falls on Friday and drove Dad down to LHC.
We all went to brunch and then got Dad stocked up and settled into
his park model. We left about 3p to drive Danny back to Rancho
Mirage. We had dinner & overnight at his house. It was a 300
miles day!
On
the 18th we spent the day helping Ross pack up his condo
in La Quinta. Since I was the only female helping, guess who did all
the packing – never dreamed you could get so much stuff in a one
bedroom condo??? The 3 guys carried it to the 'pod'. We left there
about 530p and headed back to Quartzsite.
On
the 20th we spent our last night having dinner with
Jim/Linda, Rick/Judy and Bob/Cheryl. We had great time visiting on
the patio! Their place is very nice.
On
Thursday the 21st we drove 143 miles to Desert Pools near
Desert Hot Springs, CA. Also that day back home Doug had back
surgery back. The day didn't go too well..Doug had complications
and a lot of pain, we had car problems and Dixie crunched her
finger!! After our arrival when we unhooked the car it would not
move forward or in reverse. The only way we could get it to move was
to put it in Low gear. We got it to our site and talked to our
friends, Glen/Henrietta from Edmonton. They suggested a mechanic
they used in Indio. We called and he could look at it the next day.
We called our Good Sams roadside service and set up a tow for Friday.
Also on Thursday when setting up Dixie smashed her finger in a
folding coffee table we have. It immediately turned a dark shade of
purple and hurt a lot! What more can go wrong in this one day?
It
was late morning on Friday before a service came with a flatbed truck
to take the Tracker to Han's Auto Service in Indio 26 miles away. He
called later that day and gave us the bad news that the Transmission
was bad. We opted to have a used transmission put in and he thought
he could have it ready by Wed....(not going to happen)
On
Saturday we rented a car for a week in Palm Desert. Danny came and
got us to pick up the car. From there we all went to the Beerhunter
to watch the Bobcat/Grizzly football game.
Back
in Montana on Sunday Doug had to go back into surgery to remove some
blood pooling that was causing tremendous pain. He finally got out
of the hospital on Wed. (7 days later).
On
Monday the 25th we decided to take the rental car into
Palm Desert to do some shopping but guess what???? The keys had
gotten locked in the car when we came home on Sat. Here we go
again...we called Good Sam's roadside service only to find out our
plan didn't cover keys locked in a car! We found a garage in Desert
Hot Springs that came to the park and were able to get a rod in the
window and push the door opener button. $25 later we were on our way
to grocery shop.
On
Wed. the 27th we drove to Aunt Marge's in Riverside. We
went to visit Uncle Don at his assisted living house. He was under
hospice care and not expected to live. Mike and I went to Marge's
where I made pies and a salad for Thanksgiving while Marge stayed
with Don. Late that afternoon we also went to visit Mike's sister
and family, Buster/Sandy in Corona. We went to dinner and came back
to have the desert Dixie made. We overnighted with Aunt Marge.
On
Thanksgiving, Don passed away around 130p. Marge had prepped the
turkey and dressing so I cooked it all. We had 9 for
dinner...Shelly, Lexie, Danny/Lexi, Bob/Connie (friends of Marge &
Don), Marge and Mike/Dixie. It was a wonderful dinner and time
together, just sad without Don! We went back to the motorhome that
evening.
We
wanted to purchase a small laptop on Black Friday but didn't want to
venture into the crowds so we went online on Thursday evening and
ordered it from Best Buy. The car was to be ready on Friday but of
course it was not. They had a harder time than expected getting a
used tranny. Should be ready on Monday. Our car rental was due back
on Sat. AM.
Sat.
morning Dixie took her jewelry to the weekly craft show in the park
that morning but there weren't many there so 'no sales'. We took the
rental car back and Danny picked us up. We shopped a bit and had
lunch with him. He took us back later in the afternoon and we
barb-b-cued steaks.
