A Little Shopping and a Little Dancing.

Right after Dale got home last Wednesday we headed south for his next two days off. We picked up groceries and "refreshments" and then headed to Camping World in Burlington. We needed a few RV things and figured that was the best place to get them. We stayed the night there and then spent a few hours early the next day browsing the store. One of the two things we really needed was a Surge protector as our other one had been "fried" while camping at the Lynden Fairgrounds a few weeks back. We have already lost two TV's to power surges and didn't want to lose the new one we had replaced them with. We also needed a new plug "head" for our power cord - (sorry I don't know the technical term for it) because the other one was starting to fray. We hummed and hawed about which protector to buy and settled on a "pole" one because we didn't think the inline one would fit into our small power compartment - especially with the new plug we were buying. We went out to the Rig and Dale started to replace the plug and realized we had plenty of room to fit the inline one and wouldn't have to worry about the "Pole" one being stolen. We went back inside to exchange them and LUCKY US. They only had one inline one and it was on clearance from $279.99 to $49.99 so when they refunded us the $89.99 for the Pole one we got back $35.00 to boot!!!! It was almost like getting it free! It took Dale about a half hour to install it and then off to the Olive Garden for Lunch with the refund.
We spent the afternoon doing some more shopping including getting a new "pay as you go" for my iPhone. We have a US phone but it was really a cheap one and hard to hear most of the time. We would buy 90 day Tracphone cards for it but as we are only away 2-3 days, once or twice a month - we were paying for days we didn't use. With our new one it's $3 a day but only on the days you use it within 90 days and I can put the sim card in my iPhone and now I have all my contacts, emails etc. on hand all the time in the USA.
We headed over to Silver Reef once again to be joined by Kelly and the grandkids. She drove down in our car for Dale to take back Friday night for work on the weekend. The rest of us stayed down for a dance competition on Saturday. We took turns going into the casino and/or staying with the kids. Dale did well and so did Kelly - her $20. was soon up over $160! The two of them had a great time and had dinner together while Jacob & Ivy and I snacked and watched "Frozen" in the RV - finally I got to see the whole thing instead of snippets of it here and there. Needless to say, you can probably guess why I got to stay and watch the movie and the other two got to go for seafood buffet!

Everyone having "Fun" but me!

The next day we moved to The Cedars once again so we could have plugin for the rest of the weekend. Dale headed off home and we cozied up for some quiet time in the afternoon. What a surprise when we got up and went to play in the playground an hour later. Another Navion had come and parked beside us - not only that it was almost identical! What are the chances of that happening?

Am I seeing double?!?!?

A delicious dinner came next, followed by an early bedtime so we could be energized for the competition on Saturday.
The next day Kara, Gwynne and the rest of the family arrived at the "Reel Competition" held at the Community College in Bellingham. Kelly, Jake. and Gwynne joined the rest of Shannon's Dancers and showed how they could "Kick Butt"! Our little Primary dancer, Jacob, won 2 seconds and 2 thirds. Kelly who is Beginner Adult won a second,a third and a fourth  and Gwynnevere who is a new Beginner under 7 YO won a fifth in Lilt wearing the new Aboyne outfit I'd made for her - all making me very proud!

Gwynnevere in her new Aboyne outfit.

Jacob proudly showing me his medals

We did some grocery shopping in the afternoon and then had a fun evening watching TV back in the Rig at The Cedars, once again listening to the pouring, torrential rain outside! I love being cozy, warm and dry inside my little Navion!

How come I have a couple of little "Imps" in my bed?

 The next day we spent a lazy Sunday morning and then headed home around noon. Another fun little getaway.