Thursday, October 30, 2008

Snowbird Journal-Oct 29, 2008 Deming, NM to Tucson



Today was an easy day driving wise. After our antic's over the last couple of days some of my relatives have placed me on double secret mental watch. Lisa and Amy have intimated that I should only be allowed to have interaction with their children with supervision. We arrived at the RV park and were assigned a nice site. It's close to the shower room, which we will be using.
And we border a street which means we don't have neighbors on the door side. And we have a view of the Rincon Mountains. Jim, Amy, and Elizabeth came over to meet us and we FINALLY got to meet little Elizabeth. Betsy had Elizabeth in her arms in about 2 nano seconds. We had lunch at the trailer, then Jim, Amy, and Elizabeth headed home for their afternoon nap. Betsy and I remained to start getting set up on a semi
permanent basis. Later in the PM we went to Jim, Amy, & Elizabeth's house for dinner and to watch the Phillies and Rays complete their suspended game. Jim firmly believes that Elizabeth is THE reason the Phillies are in the Series. She was born on opening day of the playoff's. And I didn't know that the Phillies had only won the World Series once before in 1980. Well, the Phillies won so Jim's little Elizabeth has brought them luck. We returned to the trailer and Betsy went through the info the RV park gave to us, while I went through our mail that had been forwarded here. We are now 3 hours time difference from Indiana. We tried to stay up later than normal, but we both conked out about 8:30 local time.
Temps today were in the high 80's. Beautiful.

2 comments:

Amy said...

Yes, dad is on double secret probation for future interactions with his grandchildren in an unsupervised manner. It is working in his favor that his travel companion, Grammy Betsy, did not participate in the AFCD plan.

We've had fun, at their expense, with email the past few days. It all started with Pat...

"The good news - I only have to claim one half of the Arizona-bound Snowbirds as a relative.

The bad news - Amy & Jeff you have to claim both halves! I'm so sorry!

Lisa and Jim - you don't have to lay claim to either. Mother was right; out-laws(aka in-laws) are best!

Can't wait for the Starship Avion to land in Tucson. I hear rumor they may set-up a sanity test station on I-10 at the New Mexico-AZ border as early as tomorrow morning. Will it be in time???

Pat"

Jim added to the mix about DPS being too busy to get the check point up and running in time due to tumbleweeds on the loose. Next, Lisa and I chimed in mentioning the future affects this might have on their grandchildren.

Ah what fun we can now have through email. Whatever did we do before?

Anonymous said...

The Circle sends congratulations on your arrival to Tucson. For awhile there, we weren't sure we weren't going to have to send out the search patrol??? Thank goodness, you squeaked thru NM without being captured? Maybe there really is something to that headware? Just to be on the safe side, I suggest you continue wearing it. I don't think the aliens recognize state lines? Great picture of Grammy Betsy and Elizabeth. Have loads of fun and hope to see you this winter.
JM