Saturday, May 16, 2009 Lorraine’s report
Time sure flies when you’re busy, I can’t believe another week has passed.
We just got home from a shift picnic from BP, Chuck’s former employer. The crew had an incident on Easter and they handled the situation well; this was their “Thank You”.
We were invited to attend at the Company Rec area today. It was sunny, warm for here and it turned out to be a very enjoyable day. Great company, great food, great weather, you can’t ask for more. Thank you everyone for including us in your celebration. We do appreciate your many kindnesses, and it was so great to see and visit with everyone again.
We spent the week visiting doctors, we took the car in for recalls, I had my hair done,
Chuck had a new switch put in the car for towing, our friends, Rob and Norma came in from Vancouver Island. They are going with us to Alaska and are happy we have a little delay in leaving; this gives them a chance to rest from gearing up and getting their home ready to leave for the summer. We went Thursday evening to Tulalip Casino for dinner and met up with Barb and Dennis, Dennis’s brother, Tom and his wife Pat, our friends, Rob and Norma, and we took my sister, Thelma and John. It was a good buffet and then we played for a little while. I think everyone enjoyed the outing.
Oh, I forgot, we had to leave Beachwood on Friday, so we moved to Thousand Trails, Naco West here in Birch Bay. When we were here last August, we didn’t know this camp ground had 50 amp, it was pretty full. They have 50 amp in about a dozen spots, we picked one this time, sure makes it nice.
That’s it for this week, next week is looking to be almost as busy as this week has been.
I want to wish a Happy Birthday to my nephew, Joshua.
Till next time…….Lorraine
Sunday 5/17/09 Chuck’s Report
We could only stay at Beachwood campground for two weeks, have to be out for at least one week before we go back. We attempted to “buy” our week out but they were already overbooked and said no way so we had to move. We’ve moved about 3 miles to a TT that we’ve stayed at before but never realized they had 50 amp power available on Phase One side. I would imagine it will fill up next week, being Memorial week but for now, it’s not even half full, it’s quiet and we have all the utilities we need.
This past week was another one full of doctor visits. At least they haven’t found any problems and have eliminated a couple of things for me, still working on why Lorraine got so sick. But at least things are progressing and nothing bad was reported to us.
We also took our car in for three recalls. The closest Saturn dealer is in Mount Vernon, about 35 miles away. They did give us a rental car for the day so it wasn’t too bad. The reason we haven’t had the recalls completed before now was because the biggest one was for the windshield wipers getting hung up during a heavy snow. As it didn’t snow too much this winter (where we were, anyway), I wasn’t too worried about the repairs.
There is an Indian casino about 30 miles away from here that has a senior citizen’s buffet on Tuesdays for only $2.00. So we tried it out, not too bad but definitely not one of the best we’ve been to, that’s for sure.
One of the couples that we will be traveling to Alaska with, Rob and Norma, live in British Columbia. They have been busy getting everything in order to leave and travel up North. Well, they came down to Beachwood on Wednesday evening and we had a good visit with them.
On Thursday, some more of our friends from British Columbia were overnighting at an Indian Casino just North of Seattle for one night. Rob and Norma drove their rig down to visit with them, we decided to drive our car down after an afternoon doctor visit and spend the evening with the group too. We picked up Lorraine’s sister and BIL, Thelma and John. and drove down to meet with these good folks. We visited for a short while then headed into the casino for their buffet. This one was much better and I must say, I left too full. Plus Lorraine and I both won there, a total of 52 cents for me, $1.00 for Lorraine, yea!. Rob and Norma came back to Beachwood on Friday but we didn’t get a chance to visit with them again, yet.
Back in my working days (man, I love to say that), I worked at an oil refinery in the operations department. Our job was to run the plant safely, make the products required and handle any upsets/emergency conditions in the proper, safe manner. On Easter Sunday, my old crew was on duty when they lost electrical power to their area of the plant. Now this is in a part of the plant where oil is heater up to 625F and under pressure. The loss of power is one of the worst conditions to handle as they don’t have all the normal equipment available to handle the problem. Well, long story short, they were able to shut down their units safely, with no fires or oil outside of the pipes, a very good thing. Because of the way they handled this problem, their foreman, Mike, wanted to thank them by having a bar-b-q for them and their families on Saturday. They were kind enough to invite Lorraine and me to come out to the rec area with them. We had a very nice time visiting with them and their families plus Mike did a great job on the grill. Thanks for the invite and treating us so well guys, even though I don’t work there, you still made us feel welcome and I’m glad you handled the upset so well.
So another week has gone by, just a couple more and we should be heading up towards Alaska. We have plans to meet up with 4 couples in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. the official beginning point on the Alaskan Highway, mile 0, on June 10th. I figured we will put between 4 and 5,000 miles on the coach before we return to the lower 48 this fall. Anyway, more on our trip later, just wanted to say we were here for two more weeks then on to another great adventure.
So till next time - - - Chuck
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