We bought a new 5th wheel on the internet OMG

Wow and more wow. We bought a new 5th wheel Cardinal 30SB from Voyager RV in Winfield BC today. It's a 2008, and we are very excited about it. Got a great trade in on our current trailer, and we'll pick the new one up when we cross over into the Okanagan mid April. How exciting. We have been in touch with the dealership for a while now, and I guess perseverance paid off.

Today I went to the crafts room and made 2 necklaces, one a pretty rose quartz with silver spacers and clear beads, and the other one of pearls, a kind of pinkish baroque pearls that I bought recently. The company of the other women was so enjoyable.

Lary and I went out to dinner tonight at a nice Italian restaurant. We just found it by coincidence, and it was wonderful.

Lary went out today to get the windshield wiper washer fixed, and at 7:15 this morning he had to scrape ice off our truck windshield. It goes down to the 30s overnight, and goes up to the 60s during the day. Kind of a cold spell, but still lovely bright blue skies during the daytime. It is supposed to warm up again once another storm front passes through.

We had a hotdog lunch here in the park today, lunch was put on for the residents by Laurel Creek, a park model home manufacturer in Phoenix. We chatted with one of their employees who had journeyed recently to BC, they want to expand their sales into BC, so they did some research up there. The park models here have only one bedroom and bathroom, and are a few square feet smaller than what we allow in western Canada. They seem pretty tiny, with very little storage. Some have sheds behind them, which would be a great idea.

We toured some new park model open homes, a newly renovated home, and a lovely home on display by its owners. They are so interesting, they have add ons called Arizona rooms, and the newer ones look out the park into the desert, with mountains beyond that. If you want more space you would have to buy a mobile home in a different type of park.

We also found out that this park has to keep a certain number of RV spots, they can't have all park model homes, apparently the owner George O'Leary has recently fixed up quite a few of the RV spots, adding handsome tables and chairs with heavy mosaic tops, and making wider more open spots easier to get into. Also there are specific areas where you camp if you have pets, so that the pets don't get walked all through the park, only in specific locations, both in the RV and the park model areas.

Dave and Wendy left Catalina Spa RV Park in Desert Hot Springs, CA to go off on their cruise today. Their cruise is from the park door to door to Ft Lauderdale, then cruising through the Panama Canal. Dave called us just before they left, they will be gone 2 weeks or so.

Tomorrow we want to visit the Tanque Verde swap meet, and Sunday there is an old time fiddling contest in one of the local parks. It is so wonderful to be able to hold outdoor events all through the winter and early Spring.