We walked in the RV Park today. When we stepped out it was lightly misting - continuing the entire 3 laps we made, for a total of 1.62 miles. We do not like to get too far away when the weather isn't favorable.
You may remember Dean ordered tires for the RV on the 17th of February. The same day he ordered them he received an email notice from our credit card company notifying us of a payment over the threshold we have set with them, asking us to contact them if it was in error. We had authorized it so we did not call. We've never called in the past when this has occurred unless something was wrong. We have never called unless we've had a problem. As of today, he has not heard anything from Pep Boys about receiving the tires; or a tracking number from Simple Tires they said would be emailed to him. This morning he called Simple Tire. The representative said they had emailed him, but when he checked his email and spam he had not received an email from them. They checked his email address to make sure it was correct. That is where the problem was, someone transposed the first two letters of his email address. Once they had the address corrected they resent the email. The email was asking for additional information. Basically the problem for Simple Tires was the billing address we provided - our mail service address - does not match up with our physical address where we stay when we are in Oswego, and we are more than 50 miles away from the billing. So, per their request, we provided a copy of his Driver's License showing our physical address, a copy of our RV insurance policy showing our mail service address, and a copy of our credit card, with all but the last 4 numbers blocked out, but with his name showing on it. Upon receipt of the information, they will process the order and ship to the address we provided (at the Pep Boys location here for installation). Well, that was done and now the tires should be on the way. Whew!!!
Now we can focus on our special plans for the day because today is our 24th anniversary. 24 years of wedded bliss - well, most of the time. HaHa! Honestly, we do get along well and truly enjoy each other's company very much. You have to in order to spend as much time together as we do in such a small area day after day.
One of Dean's favorite things is going to see a movie. I'm okay with them if they are not violent and the language is PG-13 or less, but I admit I am not the movie fan that he is. However, life is all about compromises. It's something I can do for him because he does SO much for me. The McAllen Cinema 6 offers $1.68 tickets for Seniors on Monday. They do not have the most current movies, however they offer recent ones that have just moved from the main theaters. That is fine with us since we haven't watched many movies in the past few years - we are still catching up! Checking online Dean decided on the movie Wonder with Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson. It is about a young boy, Auggie Pullman with facial differences, as he leaves the protection of home schooling by his mom, into mainstream 5th grade. It's just one of those sad, happy, feel good movies that I love, so I was over the top with his choice. To tell you the truth I'm not sure if the reason Dean likes the movies is for the movie itself or just to enjoy movie theater popcorn. He is a popcorn fiend! That was our lunch today since we are going to dinner later. The movie was over around 1:00, so we returned to the park to rest a little before dinner. I'm trying to get the pictures downloaded from our visit to the National Butterfly Park yesterday. It's been quite a process with the slow internet service we get here. I finally gave up and took a little nap instead.
I asked Dean where he wanted to eat tonight and he gave me that silly little grin of his and said "Dirty Al's". We ate here with Dennis and Pam not too long after we arrived and he LOVED it. He has mentioned several times he wants to return before we leave, so that's where we headed about 4:45.
We both ordered the medium shrimp dinner - 7 butterflied shrimp with red roasted potatoes. A very nice meal that wasn't too much food. We seriously considered ordering the banana bread pudding to share for dessert but we denied ourselves.....at least for a little while.
Once we left the restaurant, the Texas Stop Sign came up and for some reason Maxx (our truck) insisted Dean turn that way. Those trucks sometimes have a mind of their own! Once we arrived, I was horrified! I really did not want to get out of the truck because of the hundreds; if not thousands of black birds sitting on utility lines behind Dairy Queen. They were filling every single tree in the immediate area and it was just bizarre - all I could think about was the movie "The Birds". You could hear them cackling as soon as we pulled into the parking area. It was LOUD! I literally ran the short distance from the truck to DQ - not because I was afraid they would swoop down and get me - but the ground was covered with bird-do! Ugh. I was thinking to myself, is ice cream really this important.......as I ran under them, praying I did not feel any "plops".
Once inside, and safe, I chose the new feature blizzard for the month of March, a mini, Mint Oreo chocolate blizzard and Dean stayed with his new favorite, a small banana split blizzard. We ate inside, enjoying every bite before heading home. Yes, I ran back to the truck!
What a very nice day we've had. I am so thankful for such a wonderful, fun-loving, and amazing husband. I couldn't ask for anyone better!
As we left I snapped a couple of pictures of these birds - not real good, due to the glare - but wanted to give you an idea of what I was talking about.
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| There were at least this many birds, or more, on the lines in front of DQ as well as these shown here, located behind the store. |
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| I'm not sure how many of these small trees (but at least 10) were in the surrounding parking lots but everyone of them was loaded with black birds like this tree above. Click to enlarge this to see them. |
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