Home and Back

It's been a couple of weeks since I have written but it was both a very busy, and quiet couple of weeks.
 

One of the sculptures

We started out at Borrego Springs where we had amazing peace and quiet, great scenery, and nice days and cool evenings.  We spent a couple of days there, and met a very nice couple from Ontario who kindly volunteered to look after our motorhome while we flew home.  We are very grateful to them as it made our trip home very easy.  While at Borrego Springs we did go on a couple of 4x4 runs - very little rock crawling but some wonderful scenery.  We also took a small tour to see the most amazing sculptures that are all around the town.

Our flight home was great although quite tiring.  It seems that it always takes a full day to go anywhere.  It was great to see the grandkids and take in a couple of their activities.  I also go some work done, we did a bit of visiting, and I complained a lot about the darn cold weather.  But it was only for a few days so really nothing to complain about.

On our way to Anaheim

We flew back to Palm Springs and found that the folks who looked after the motorhome did a fine job.  The next morning we headed out.  Shortly after we left, Gerry said "my batteries are dead".  With that comment we carried on until we had no gauges, could not shift, and not much was working so we pulled over to try to see if we could figure out what the problem was.  The decision was that it was likely the alternator.  We wanted to be in Anaheim by about lunch so how were we going to do that.  Well, Gerry came up with a solution - he wired the coach batteries to the house batteries, we ran the generator to keep the batteries charged, and off we went - hardly lost any time!!  The reason we wanted to get into Anaheim so quickly was because Taryn and Greg and the kids had arrived the day before.  Greg to the rescue as he removed the alternator and a new one got ordered.

The Castle at Disneyland

It's a small world!!

Then it was day one at Disneyland.  The weather was perfect, the kids had a blast, and it was even fun for the old folks - no one does it up like Disney!  But while there we get a phone call from our credit card fraud department about some unusual charges.  Since we couldn't check at that moment, we got home and found that there were some charges on our credit card that didn't belong to us.  So now we have no credit card until Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.  That's a real bummer as I really wanted to go shopping.  Oh well - crap happens.

We are at a campground where you can easily see the fireworks at Disneyland.  There is really nothing like it and it seems that they vary them daily.  All I can say is WOW!! We are here for almost a couple more weeks so we will definitely see more of Disneyland.

I hope everyone has a great week and I'll be back next week!