Well today is moving day. We are moving what would be a few blocks, if they had blocks here. We are moving from Phase II to Phase III. As a Treasure Lake member we can stay in one spot 21 days at our member rate of $8 per night. After 21 days, you can move to another Phase within the park for a rate of $15 per night - this is called a buy back. After 9 days you can move to another Phase for three weeks at the $8 rate.
We did not walk this morning since we wanted to be ready to move as soon after 8:00 am as we could. That meant most of our "moving day jobs" needed to be done a little before 8:00 so we could be at the office to trade in our current site number for a random number in another Phase (in case we can't find a site in Phase III, we will look in Phase l). We arrived at the office shortly after 8 and only one person was in front of us.
When it was my turn, I explained to the lady at the front desk that our 21 days were up so we needed to change Phases (each Phase is a different campground), but we only needed to pay for four nights. She asked, "You are only going to stay for four nights?? I said yes. Then she said the happiest words....""We have a grace period of four days and you won't have to move to another site before you leave." Even though we packed up almost everything before we came to the office, we had not unhooked from water or electric or put the slides in yet. We were elated to say the least that we would be able to remain in our current site.
We returned to Bentley and since everything was off the counters, tables, and put away I decided it was a great time to vacuum and dust, before I got everything back out again. This is one of the reasons I do not put much out in the way of "decorations" in Bentley. First of all we don't have much room, and when we move I must find a place to store it. We have very little space to hang things on the wall or to place on a surface. Most of the time it is just us in the RV and when we are traveling, we are typically not in it most of the day.
We had a little time before we needed to leave for Springfield at 11. We are meeting Marc and Jen at Olive Garden around 12:30, so we are going to Sam's first to get my sliced almonds I forgot to buy when we were there on Friday. Shortly before we were ready to leave someone knocked on our door. I believe it was the mother of our next door neighbors. We have a Y on our side of the water hydrant. They wanted to know if it would be okay to use it so they can clean the awning on their travel trailer. Dean told them it would be fine. He decided to shut our side of the Y off before we left, so we visited with them for a few minutes. They were using a water less cleaner on their camper and showed us a section of the RV they were working on. Wow - it looked great. It was called Meguiar's Ultimate Waterless Wash & Wax. Has anyone ever heard of it or tried it? I think they said they bought it at O'Rielly's.
We were about 10 minutes from Olive Garden when Marc texted they were at the restaurant. They went on in and got a table. I'm sure glad they did, as it got really busy about the time we arrived. We were met at the door by a beautiful young lady, our granddaughter Kamron, and she took us to our table. Jaxson was excited to show us his Orca whale he got at the new Wildlife Museum at Bass Pro. They all loved the aquarium where they spent about an hour and a half. Jaxson was telling us about orca whales and humpback whales. We wished him a Happy Birthday, but we'll wait to tell him about his present when we leave.
We had a wonderful dinner and it was great catching up with everything they have been doing since we last saw them several weeks ago now. Kamron recently took golf lessons and won first place in a tournament. We are so proud of her. She really enjoys it. She just went to a summer camp at Greenbush. She had a lot of fun and met some new friends. Our lunch was perfect. Kamron and I love Olive Garden and it's our restaurant of choice when we spend the day together for her birthday each year (and so do Haleigh & Dacy, our two oldest granddaughters).
After dinner, as we walked to the cars I told Jaxson we had a present for him - "You have a present for ME?" I had him walk to the side of the van, and when the door opened and he saw the big yellow fish - he said that's for ME? and grabbed it and just hugged it. He was so excited - a win for Nana and Papa Peine. We had one other present and gave him a $20 bill - he said that's for ME too? He turned to his Dad and said it's twenty money Dad!
As we were getting ready to leave our table Jennifer asked him if he was tired and he said yes. I told Jen, he'll have the perfect thing to rest his head on, on the way home! We sure hope he was able to use it.
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| 6 year old Jaxson William Nile Blair with his long yellow fish. Even though it wasn't a real fish he was very happy with it! |
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| Dad Marc, Mom Jen, Jax and Kamron |
We made a quick stop at Sam's before heading back to Branson via Highway 13. I told Dean I wish we had a few more fresh tomatoes for sandwiches this week. He mentioned the vegetable stand they used to have near West Branson, so we decided we'd drive by it on the way back to see if it was still in operation. We were happy to see it was AND they had tomatoes. Unfortunately, the ripe ones were pretty well gone but I found two I thought would work for us. $2 for 2 nice size tomatoes. They had several other things that looked really good but knowing we will be eating a couple of meals out in the next few days with friends here in the area I hated to buy much. Brett has a large garden. Since we'll be spending a few days parked at his house soon, we are hoping we can enjoy some of his bounty.
I forgot to include these pictures I took at Bass Pro the other day when we stopped there to look for Jaxson's fish. I still enjoy visiting this place after 30+ years.
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| Gorgeous outside area as we approached the entrance. Enlarge it to see more detail. |
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| Beautiful scenery. So much has changed since we were here last. |
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| This bear was so life like it was intimidating! |
I stepped outside and the temperatures had dropped so I suggested we take a walk around the park (campground). Frank and Joyce were outside grilling their supper. We stopped for a few minutes to visit but didn't want to hold them up with their dinner so we moved on. I'm not sure how far we walked but it was pretty nice for most of the walk, and then all of a sudden it warmed up. Fortunately, we were close to our site by then. We set outside for awhile before finally coming in to watch a little TV. Neither one of us was hungry for dinner tonight. We were still pretty full from lunch but we did have a little snack of fruit.
It's been a good day. I hope yours was too!
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