Monday, March 24th

It was hot today, 91F, really an issue when the car had sat in the sun for a while and we all climbed in.  Definitely needed the a/c to get it useable.
  Spent part of the morning returning tools to some of the people in the park.  I am finished with most of them now with just a few pieces of trim left to do.  Then we went to get the car washed in & out.  They do a great job at the cobblestone car wash for a reasonable price and we sure needed it.  Then we made our way to Costco, needed gas and wanted to look at their beds and some other stuff.
 

By the time we finished it was time to go pick up Norm & Lucie.  We had arranged to spend the afternoon with them and that we would drive.  Took them to old Scottsdale where we went through some shops and had lunch on the 2nd floor patio.  It was a restaurant we had previously eaten at and where we had a good experience.  Then it was on to the Arizona Mills outlet center.  Norm & I found a great place to have a beer while Marg & Lucie shopped.  They both came away with bags of stuff and a commitment to go back without us guys.  LOL  This is the big outlet mall that is about a mile if you walk around the outside of the complex, so it has lots of options on what you can look at.
  Got back in time for a beer at their rv site.  They are in a very nice rv park, it has something like 3,000 sites, so has a population about the size of the town of Peace River.  There is a 9 hole and an 18 hole golf course, several pools, 2 rec centers and just about everything you can imagine.  The rent is $1,300/month, as befits a park of this caliber and is a tad more than we pay in Carefree Manor.  in fact 2 months there is our annual rent here.  They have restrictions on quality of rv's they let in or park models they allow, pretty much a picture book place.
  After we got back to the rv, it was  quick dinner and then off to poker for me.  I did well with that.  Marg went up to the unit after supper and put the kitchen cupboard doors back on and did some general clean-up.