Monday, November 11, 2013

I'm a Valley girl

Am I the only one that thought that was funny.. Half the year I'm in the Rio Grande Valley and the other half I'm in the Pahrump Valley.
 We arrived in Mission Thurs afternoon. It was cooler than I expected it to be but a front had just gone through the day before dropping 4 inches of rain in a 6 hour period here.. that's a lot for this place. Mosquitoes love me so I've already been bitten.
 We spend the rest of the weekend unpacking and organizing.. I'm still straightening and organizing and it will probably take me the rest of the week to get all done.. We sleep in the RV but do the cooking and showering  in the casita so things have to be moved around.. Once we get set up I like to decorate with my statues and get things place where I like for them to stay for the season. Once all that's done I'm ready to get started on the fun stuff..
 I took a short walk this morning but it took a while cause I kept talking to people.. took me almost an hour to get 3/10 of a mile.  I usually do 2 miles in 45 minutes so I was slow today.
 I know why Reid feels bad here the humidity is bothering me this yr too.. I'm just wiped out from it.
  This week we're starting dance again so that will keep me busy.. I'm not working in the office this season so that frees up my mornings to do aerobics and walking.. hopefully I'll get aerobics started this week but it might wait till next week.. We'll see.

St David, Van Horn and San Antonio

I really thought I'd posted since Mesa but it appears I didn't. We're fine.. We did the first half of the trip in 11 days. And the last half we did in three days so it was hectic but it was a good trip..
We stayed in St David for two nights. It's a membership park and it was pretty nice..No complaints not even ants..
Then it was off to Van Horn, TX nothing much there just a place to stop in between AZ border and San Antonio. The only thing I remember about Van Horn is the grass is full of sand spurs.. If you don't know what that is ask your puppies.. They are very sharp sticky spurs and the girls can't walk once they get in their paws. They are tiny some times and you can't see them so I took the girls for their walks and the spurs got all over the girls paws and fur and our shoes and we track them all over the RV. It's been swept, vac'd and I've also hand picked them out of the carpet and we're still stepping on them in our sock feet.. it's awful..
 Leaving Van Horn and stopping for the night near SA. We stayed outside the city about 40 miles and we alway have to stop at Sea Island Shrimp House when we come through there.. it's delicious. There's four locations there but we'd sure love for one to open in Mission.
 We left at 7am to avoid rush hour but about three minutes later we were already getting to heavy traffic so we took the loop around the city hoping to avoid a lot of the congestion and we did pretty good for the most part.. 1 hr and 20 minutes later we were out of the city and heading toward the valley.