Just another weekend at home!

Hi there everyone,

Well, we've had another busy weekend here at home. No destination in mind, just taking care of business around the old rented home-stead! :-) First, we've been working on the plans for our up-coming vacation. We are taking a road trip to Quartzsite for our next vacation. We'll be leaving for Quartzsite in Mid January. Our nine day road trip will take us to hooking with members of the Escapees in Quartzsite. There is this huge swap meet sort of RV gathering every year in Quartzsite which is a town in western Arizona, just past the California boarder on Interstate 10. We will spend 3 or so full days there. Then, we will head to Joshua Tree national monument to check that out. If time permits, we will also check out the 'General Patton' museum on that day. At the end of the day, we will end up at the Bolsa Chika state beach which is just south of Long Beach. We have chosen that location because it is near a dog friendly beach. While staying at Bolsa Chika for a few days, we'll make a day trip to the USS Iowa and see the Space Shuttle which will be on display at the Southern California Science center.

This weekend, I also worked on setting up additional sprinklers in our yard. As you can see, we've made pretty good progress on getting some of the grass to fill in, so we thought we would put in some more effort at getting the grass repaired! As you can see from the following pictures, there is a picture from August 2nd and another from the 8th of September.

This weekend was the weekend for the California Capital Air Show at Mather Field. We attended the Air Show last year, but didn't go this year. It was very cool this year, as the United States Air Force Thunderbirds performed at this years show! This is a wonderful event that is attened by about 80,000 people over the course of the weekend. Again, the weather this year was perfect. Not a cloud in the sky and no wind to speak of.

Sunday afternoon, we went grocery shopping, Carol was nice enough to let me go see a few minutes of the Thunderbirds performance from a near by street while she put the groceries away! Also, while I was gone, Carol started working on her first 'Peach Cobler' that she has ever made in the Convection oven of the Motorhome! The Peaches came from a tree that hangs over the fence of the RV park. So, if nothing else, the fruit is real and not processed at all by a 'Processing plant'.

We'll try to remember to make a post later about how the cobler came out! I'm sure it came out great, 'cause my honey is a wonderful cook! :-)

Happy camping! Eric and Carol Anderson!