Out of the Repair Shop!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

It has been two frustrating weeks, but we are finally out of Elkhart. The metal arrived last Tuesday, but of course they forgot to bend the bottom and it had to go to another shop to have that done. Not to worry, it will be still done on Tuesday!. Well, to make a long story short the metal did not leave the shop till Wednesday and came back on Thursday. So they finally started working on our rig again. We had to be in White Pigeon on Monday, so we decided to pull out of the service hall on Friday, after the metal was all reattached and come back on Monday afternoon for painting. It seems that things sure change fast there, or the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. They installed the metal and started painting Friday late afternoon. It was pouring rain, the dock doors were closed and we made the mistake of opening the door for a minute while they were painting. We could not get the paint smell back out of the rig and it was difficult sleeping Friday night. They buffed the metal and sealed all the seams on Saturday morning and the owner finished tying up the sewer pipe early Saturday afternoon.

We finally pulled out of the shop about 4 pm on Saturday afternoon and Doug was ready to get out of Elkhart. We checked out a campground in Bristol (about 20 miles east) to make sure they had room and had a big enough spot, got the rig and pulled into the campground around 6 pm. This campground is beautiful; a little bit pricey, but beautiful. I started the laundry right away and washed till 11 pm. It was so nice to be able to eat on normal plates and use silverware. I am so much more appreciative of freely flowing water now. :-) I finished my fourth load on Sunday morning and by noon time Larry and Linda pulled in next to us. It was so good to see friends again after all that has happened.

Everybody inspected the repairs and decided that they did do a good job. Pictures of our fixed rig are to follow. Right now we are sitting in the lounge of Quadra Manufacturing and waiting for our "Big Foot" installation to get done. We pulled in here yesterday afternoon and had a nice dinner with Larry and Linda in White Pigeon, MI. When getting out of the rig this morning at 6:45 am (we had a 7 am appointment) we had a rude awakening to iced up windshields on the truck and the car. It is freezing up here. My blood is just to thin from living in Texas to long to appreciate these cold temperatures up here. We are supposed to get done this afternoon and will go back to Eby's Pine Campground tonight for one more night.

I just got of the phone with the Little River Casino Campground in Manistee, MI and secured us the last full service spot for the Memorial Day Weekend. Things are finally starting to fall back into place and I am starting to get excited again about traveling. And to top it all off, we spent our first night sleeping in Michigan last night, since we camped out behind the Quarda building and I need to change our state map. It will be done when we have better Internet.