ALB disease

We didn't do anything for the New Year which is usual for us. On the 2^nd of January we went to Chompie's with Dawn, Vince and Bethany. Friday the 3^rd our buyer came up from Vail to take the CRZ home so we  now can drive the Smart.

 We have had it two months and have less than 300 miles on it. 

Dawn and Bethany at Sweet Tomatoes

                                        

Vince and Dawn for her birthday

                                 

Colby and Krista at Sweet Tomatoes

                   

Us at Sweet Tomatoes for Dawn's birthday

        

I baked an angel cake for Dawn's birthday and we met them on Saturday at Sweet Tomatoes. We had a fun evening with lots of laughs.

We like to move the MH fairly often when we stay in one place for any amount of time and the 7^th was our day. We planned to make a big loop around Phoenix to get 50+ miles on the coach. We had not gone too far on the 101 when two different folks signaled us we had a problem and we discovered one of our bay doors was open. Since we were in the HOV lane, we pulled as far left as possible so I could get out and shut the bay door which was sticking out on the passenger's side. Just before I could get it shut, a truck came zipping along and clipped the door, breaking his side mirror. I jumped out of the way and was not hurt but it could have been much worse! The bay door has a small ding but when it is shut, it is not noticeable. The guy in the truck wanted us to pay for his mirror so he called DPS. No tickets were issued and two hours later we were back on the road. Not the best day we've had.

The 11^th of January Larry was experiencing chest pains so we went to the VA emergency room and they ended up keeping him for the night. They gave him nitro to take if he needed it again. He took a nuclear stress test and they found nothing unusual. He has had several 'incidents' since then but they go away. His primary care doctor retired Jan 1 so he has no one to follow up with him. He talked to the nurse yesterday because he doesn't want to 'fall through the cracks' until a new PC doctor can be found for him (and lots of other veterans). I've had some abdominal pain that cannot be traced to anything as I've been to two specialists now. Since we both are experiencing symptoms with “no apparent cause” Larry is calling it ALB disease, that's “a lota birthdays” disease.

Larry has been making the Smart Car "his” by adding a new exhaust, bluetooth, armrest, cruise control and a scan gauge that shows second by second mileage, rpms, temperature,  etc.

Showing the new arm rest in the Smart, even putting yellow stripping on it!

I did only one shop this month at a new to us Mongolian Grill and we really enjoyed ourselves. The staff were one of the friendlist we have ever encountered.

Dawn and family took us out to Red Lobster's January 26 for my birthday. She baked a cake and managed to sneak it in without me even knowing, even though we entered at the same time!

the 'girls' at Red Lobster

Great picture of Larry and Dawn at Red Lobster

Colby and Krista enjoying themselves, Krista wondering what she has gotten herself into!

       

Having fun with the yummy cake, trying to put candles on it

 

 

 

Vince and Larry at Red Lobster

After four years of frustration with my PC and Larry always responding with “1-800-buy-a-Mac”, I broke down and bought a MacBook. It will take some getting used to it but I think I will like it. I've had one training session and have another one scheduled in a week. It has a lot of features that are really neat, like dictation and maps, directions and simple drag and drop that works!

Mercedes Benz is going to work on our Smart Car on Monday for free and provide us with a loaner car to get the bluetooth working that they sold us that does not have power to it. Something is wrong with the system and they need to figure out how to make it work before they sell any more systems. Guess we are the guinea pigs.