Monday, January 31/2011

I awoke early this morning to hear a few raindrops on the roof of the motorhome and once again I find it a rather calming sound. It is like all is well with the earth and it is merely replenishing some much needed water to this part of the desert. It is chilly in the bus this morning which really is no surprise considering the cloud coverage. According to the forecast, rain is on the agenda. I really will not complain though as it is -35C at home with a 10km wind so the windchill factor will easily take the temp to -40C. Way too cold for man or beast!!

I can't believe that it is the end of January already. Where has the time gone? It seems to be flying by this year and we are already half way through our time down here.

Lorne and Marilyn should be showing up soon and that will make time fly by again, then Jace and Kimmy will be here after that - only 34 more sleeps until we go pick the granddog up from them (so they can attend a wedding in Vegas) and then only 38 more sleeps until they come and spend a week with us!! After that, it will soon be time to think about starting the trek home.

John worked on the dash once again and around 4pm much to our surprise, Lorne and Marilyn arrived!! What a coincidence - I had just mentioned them in today's blog and they show up today AND right in time for happy hour!! It must be karma!!

Being that it was still rather windy and chilly out, John got the "fireplace in a can" out and we sat in the trailer trading stories of our lives since we had last seen each other. It was nice that we had kept in touch through out the year and had some clue as to how each other was doing. It was really good to see them. They will be touring around to the various sites again before they board the plane to Mexico. It is going to be a fun few days for us. We already have plans for karaoke at the Rancher on Friday so it looks like another bus ride into town!! And, most importantly, they know that happy hour starts at 4pm at this campsite!!