Awake: 6:28am Temp ? sleep 5+26 sunny overnight
inside the paint chamber.
“Happy Birthday to Kathy.” She says it’s her xx birthday. Sleeping in the
# 20 paint chamber was just fine. We could hear those powerful fans
running but it didn’t disturb our sleep what-so-ever. We decide to attend
9:00am Mass @ Sacred Heart Church this morning. As we exit our coach, John
the painter is double-checking his work & tells us that after lunch, our
coach will be backed outside so Ron can continue troubleshooting our
TracStar system….if the parts arrive from Florida.
On our return from Mass, Kathy spots the FDX delivery truck going to the
parts department @ Newell. So, a visit to the office is in store to find
out if our package is in. It took over 30 min for them to find our
satellite box & when they did, Ron got right after replacing the gyro &
circuit board on our coach inside the paint chamber. He couldn’t do any
testing on the TracStar until our coach is taken outside after lunch
however.
@ 2:00pm Ron was finished with a thumbs up for the TracStar system. Now
all the items on our list have been looked at, repaired or replaced…. &
our coach is driven to the Newell campground where all (4) slides are
extended & the clean-up team comes in & makes our home look like new on
the inside again.
Throughout the day, Kathy has been getting “Happy Birthday” calls from
family & friends. # (1) was from Shirley of Vancouver, WA. (2) Son, Nick,
of Seattle, WA. (3) Son, Zack, of Seattle, WA. (4) My sister, Mary Jo, of
Lodi, CA. (5) Daughter, Melissa, of Indiana, PA. (6) Daughter, Katrina, of
Denver, CO. Then there are the e-mail wishes but my contract doesn’t
permit revealing those 1st names.
@ 4:30 Tommy visits us @ our campsite to discuss our bill. Save for the
new tires, the cost would have been respectable. (5) of our (10) write-ups
were covered under warranty. Again, these guys did a great job.
I take Kathy to “Montana Mikes” restaurant for her birthday dinner. We
split a 12 oz steak with all the trimmings. During dinner birthday call
#7 is received from Kathy’s friend, Sylvia, of Chicago.
Forgot to mention that Mike and Louise from CA have been here the whole
time we have; getting the first preventive maintenance done on their new
2006 coach. They gave us a tour of their coach; Kathy really liked it,
esp. their galley and Murphy bed. We first met them in Jan, 2002. Kathy
spent quite a bit of time talking with Louise over the past 4 days. Their
coach is finished and they are ready to move on so we say our goodbyes for
now.
So as to get an earlier start in the morning, we retract all the slides
tonight.
No movie tonight……nothing of interest; we read instead.
High temp=97 Lights out: 11:09pm
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