Going Bowling

Well,  we have had a frenetic week.  So I will start with the getting to the bowl game.  It is fun, but it is also a lot of work.

The day before we were to leave, January 1, I cooked ten racks of ribs.  That is a lot of ribs.  We had to load all of the food everyone else was bringing, along with water, pop, and snacks for the road.  Oh, and don't forget the dog food.  Then there are the dog's pills, the clothes for all of the days, the snacks, the reading material, the iPad, the computer, the satellite radio . . . oh, and don't forget the warm coats, the gloves, the fruit, the trash bags, the paper plates, the napkins . . . oh yes, the gloves for eating the ribs, the baby wipes . . . you get the idea.  A lot to bring.

We left at 7:00 a.m. on New Year's Day - Kenneth, Diana, Don, Babs, Doug Thompson, and yours truly.  We made our own lunch, but stopped in Albuquerque for dinner with our friends, Janet and Greg Wright.  We have to travel all the way to Albuquerque to have dinner with our East Wichita Rotary friends.  Then we headed the two hours to Gallup, and other than making one man angry enough to make a little gesture (Don didn't see him and almost pulled over into him), we made the trip unscathed.

Unfortunately, it was going to be 1 degree in Gallup.  Unfortunately, there was no place to plug the Willie into electrical power.  We checked into our motel, Don turned on the generator, and we hoped for the best.  7:00 a.m. the next morning, we came out to leave, but the RV wouldn't start.  Don tried many things, but we couldn't get it started until 9:00.  That meant we wouldn't make it to the pep rally.  That was too bad, but once Don used Di's hair dryer to warm up the starter and we could get on our way, we were just glad to be headed in the right direction.  By 3:30 we were in Phoenix, checked in, and very happy we had made it that far. Now, just hope the RV starts tomorrow morning.