Almost ready

We started out the month of April by going to a Seder in Surprise, AZ. Friends from church, Casey and Diane joined us along with Vince and Dawn. We always enjoy our Seder evenings and the food was good too!

Diane, Rabbi Zimmerman, Casey

Casey, Larry and Vince at the Seder

Vince, Rabbi Zimmerman, & Dawn

One morning I was awaken to see two hot air balloons overhead. One of these days I would like to take a ride in one so that is one my bucket list.

One of the two balloons that woke me up

Larry put up the posts for our gate and later in the month got them painted ready to finish when we return in the fall.

Larry leveling the gate post

Gate post leveled and painted

We needed another pipe for the wash and our neighbor, Randy, helped Larry drop it in and then after many loads of dirt and gravel we have another entrance to the place where we don't have to go through the wash with the motorhome and drag the backend. We had an appointment with Cummins in Avondale to give our generator its 1000 hour check up so we tried out the new drive and it works well. On the way back from Cummins we stopped at a tire place and had our Crossfires installed on our duallys, again getting everything ready for our upcoming trip.

Additional pipe in the wash

Neighbor, Randy in the Bobcat and Larry working on the new driveway

New driveway finished

April 18 Larry had knee surgery and on the 19^th I had my second dental appointment at Midwestern. On the 20^th I had a chiro appointment and first I drove to Avondale Camping World to purchase a carbon monoxide alarm as our died. We also kept having false smoke alarms so have ordered new ones after returning our 9 month old smoke alarms to Costco. Costco is so good about returns!

We have played Mexican Train every Friday night with Dawn and Vince (and sometimes Bethany) since January and will miss playing weekly but will have something to look forward to on our return this fall.

On the 28^th we went to Red Robin to celebrate Vince's birthday (a little early since we are leaving). Colby and Krista as well as Bethany joined us and we went to Dawn and Vince's afterwards for cake and ice cream. We didn't break up until nearly midnight.

Dawn & Krista at Red Robin

Ellen & Larry at Red Robin

Vince, Colby & Krista ready for cake and ice cream

Vince opening his birthday presents

Tomorrow Larry will have his stitches removed and we will be ready to go.