Summer Events

Since our wedding, Randy and I have gone on a cruise to Alaska, did a lot of camping and went to Reno and Santa Rosa CA. We enjoyed beautiful vineyards in the Napa Valley. We visited with a friend of Randy's from Scottsdale. We just loved the Pacific Ocean and we went to an automobile museum in Reno. A really large museum.

We have recently decided to purchase another travel trailer. It is so nice with lots of space and a queen sized bed and full shower. Summer is nearly over and we want to take our new trailer out before the snow flies. We still have our cats, but our Little Guy (the stray) no longer comes around and I fear he may have died. Hopefully, he just found a new home. Life is pretty good right now. Randy has to watch his blood sugar but he is doing pretty well.

Our Yellowstone Trip and Other News

On May 21, we went to Contessa's graduation. Marty and Cherise were great hosts. We spent the night with our trailer parked in Marty's driveway. After the graduation, we all went to The Olive Garden to eat. Contessa graduated with honors and also got a scholarship to Logan Utah State University. She will live with relatives there while going to school. We are proud of her. We also saw the Fall of Idaho Falls and lots of cute baby geese with their mothers watching close by.

The next day we went to Yellowstone Park. We camped at a KOA in West Yellowstone. We spent that day setting up and swimming and used the hot tub. It snowed a little that day. The next day it was pretty good weather. We went into the park and visited almost all of it. Randy had never been there before. We saw buffalo and cute baby buffalo and elk and a bald eagle in its next way up high. We saw all the geysers including Old Faithful. The blue pools are still my favorite. We saw the stinky mud pots as well. Yellowstone Lake was mostly frozen over. Yellowstone is so different in the cold weather. I was really mad because my digital camera broke when I had only taken a few photos. I had to send it in to get fixed. So I got the chip out and got the ones I did take put on a cd and I have them in this blog.

We spent that night again at West Yellowstone in our trailer and watched DVDS. We ate supper at a Chinese place that was not very good and highly priced.

The next day we headed out to Jackson Wyoming. It had been raining all day and on the way to the Tetons there was still lots of snow and the lakes were frozen. You could not see the tips of the Tetons for the clouds but they were majestic all the same. We spent the night at a KOA in Jackson where it rained all night. I used my Garmin to find the place but I had programmed the wrong address which I got from MapQuest so we had a hard time finding the KOA and Randy got quite upset with me and the Garmin. We camped by the Snake River. The next morning it was nice weather and we went down to the river before heading home to Utah. It was a safe trip and fun but we need to fix the toilet in the trailer as it leaks a little. Randy is so picky about everything; it all must be perfect and so he really takes good care of the trailer and keeps everything so clean.

Our Moab Trip

Unfortunately, our Moab trip was not as good as we had hoped. The weather was great but Randy got sick and couldn't even eat the whole time and the tread came off one of the trailer tires and so we had to buy a new used one. Randy had turned the fridge upt too hight so everything got frozen so it's a good thing he didn't want much to eat.We did go to Dead Horse Point and to Arches though and tried to see as much as we could. I sure hope our next trip is better. I hope we have learned some things from our try-out trip to Moab. We will be going to Bear Lake next month

Here are photos of us and of our trailer and Suburban.

Camping Plans

Randy and I are planning on going camping on April 21 to Arches National Monument. Our idea of camping is having hookups, water and cable and air conditioning and even a microwave; and we will have all this at the KOA park in Moab. We won't always camp this way, but we wanted to try out our hookups to see how they work.

On May 9 we are going to camp at Bear Lake. We got a deal there to one free for one paying night. I am so looking forward to this. I haven't camped for a long time.

Rita's Mexican Cruise

I had a good time on the cruise. Beverly had a cold and allergies so she wasn't feeling too well. We got lots of rest which I usually don't get a on a cruise. I fell down twice. Once I tripped over the ledge to the bathroom and fell into the shower. The other time I was getting on a tender boat from the ship and the sea was swelling and it caused the tender boat to rise up and I missed it my leg went between the two ships. I got badly bruised on my right leg and knee and was so stiff and sore I had to miss Matzatlan the next day. They gave me my money back. Randy thinks I should have sued them, but I am ok. The weather wasn't all that warm and the adult pool wasn't that warm either. The hottest place was Puerta Villarta, the sand burned my feet. Mexico is really a dump except for the hotels and beaches. They have cobblestone roads and the building look really tacky. There were even dirt roads leading to nice hotels. We went on the Vision of the Seas and it is a mid-size ship that holds about 2100 people. We enjoyed the beach at Puerta Villarta and Cabo. We went to some buffets from hotels on the beaches and had open bars etc. I got to hold a real life parrot on my arm in Cabo. Walking on the beaches is almost impossible for me these days. My legs just give out in the sand. I won't be doing any cruises for awhile I think. I was a little upset that I was not invited to the party for previous cruisers on the Royal Caribbean since I had cruised with them before.

Our dinner companions were from Vancouver Canada (Ken and Barbie; really) and they were nice people and our waiters were so much fun. One of them remembered I wanted lemonade and he always filled my glass with an endless supply of lemonade. We also saw a couple of movies on the ship. All in all it was very relaxing and fun. I hated the airports though. SLC was so backed up that even though we got there an hour early, our seats were given away on the flight because we to wait so long getting through security. There were all these skiers going home. Our flight nearly left without us but then they gave us our seats back and put the standbys in other seats.

On the way back in LA, I forgot and had my cell phone in my pocket and they treated me like a criminal and then my knee also beeped and so it was a mess. To top it off, the plane was 1 and 1/2 hours late getting in so Randy had to wait a long time for us. I had called him and told him I would be late but he thought he could get a meal at the airport but he couldn't because all the eating places are past security. Since I hate airports so much, if I take a cruise in the future we will drive to the port. Airports also wear me out.
Above are our dinner companions, Barb and Ken from Vancouver and on the right
Roast Lamb, one of our Meals

This is Beverly and I with our waiters. Notice how the light makes it look like our head waiter, Ramil is wearing a crown.
This is on the beach at Puerta
Villarta on the right

Here I am with the parrot at Cabo

Beverly at Cabo near the Beach at Lunch and on the right, One of the ship's lounges




Cabo San Lucas Real People Dressed as Statues on Cabo on the right
Our Room on the Ship
Beverly and I on First Formal Night on the right

Ken and Barb