Too hot, time to move

March 29 - 31 (Thursday - Saturday)
I can't believe I'm complaining that it is getting too hot here to be comfortable especially when I see the frigid weather in Alberta. The sun is getting intensely hot by about 9 AM and by noon any outside activity is restricted to hoisting a glass of something cool. Or of course find somewhere indoors with air conditioning but then why be in the desert if you want to be inside?

Thursday was laundry and pool day. The pool happens to be located beside the laundry room so you can multi-task. Cheryl did laundry......I swam. I thought it was a fair deal. Well, actually I did laundry too but not the type you should expect. We drove the truck up to the laundry area as we had a couple of baskets and it is too far to carry them on a hot day. In my haste to dip into the pool I neglected to take the keys and my wallet out of my swim trunks. Yep, I got in the pool with said items securely in the pockets of my trunks. It was at least twenty minutes before I realized the error. By that time my money was duly laundered, along with all other important papers and cards I carry and my key fob for the truck! All I could do was put them up on the table in the sun in hopes the key fob wouldn't short out. Luckily it didn't and everything works. The money smells nice and clean too! Of course I took a little ribbing at the happy hour gathering.

A wallet full of wet papers drying on towels.

At least the sunset ended the day well!

Even the moon had a pink cloud from the sunset over it.

Friday was our usual day over in Laughlin..........well the Pioneer Casino to be exact. It was our last Friday in the area so we thought we should be, could be, maybe be, lucky. Well, long story short we were not. But we did enjoy a few hours of play, some great drinks in the bar that overlooks the River, and had a nice meal in their excellent restaurant. We have been through most of the Casinos in Laughlin and we kept coming back to the Pioneer. It the smallest, likely the oldest, and certainly not the glitz and shine of some of the others but we seemed at home here. All the staff were great too. We highly recommend it. Now the Casino has been sold and there is a lot of uncertainty about its future. Hopefully the new owners will treat the staff well and not change too much of the homey feel. We'll see.

Later Friday night the water went off in the park. This park has it's own well and a pump that fills a huge water storage tank to service the park. Apparently the well and pump are only a year old but they have had some issue over the year. It's not the first time the park has lost water. The City of Bullhead City can turn on a tap to service park in cases where the pump and well are out of service. You would think this is a simple process to just open the valve. This being Good Friday, at night, on a long weekend the emergency City Water department was not sensing any sort of urgency to restore our water. That and surely the fact that the City is not likely to care much to help a non-customer in his time of need. Anyway, it was nearly 4 PM Saturday before we had water restored. Of course in anticipation of leaving I had just recently drained the fresh water holding tank on our trailer, so we were using drinking water to flush the toilet. :-(

Saturday was spent getting the trailer ready to go. Mostly though we were trying to stay cool. Our thermometer showed 34 C or 93 F. The wind that was ever-present all month suddenly decided to quit, so the day was just a bit too warm for us. We did enjoy a long happy hour with the folks we had met in the park. Many are from Alberta and we are all looking at weather forecasts and trying to figure out when to make a run for the border. The way it looks now it will be about ten more days before the weather breaks. So we'll make plans around that.

Sunday we'll head to Las Vegas for four days and then make a plan for further down the road. Likely spend some time in Utah. Just too hot down here! :-)
........and that was Our View From Here!