Lake Champlain Expo fairgrounds

We had a good time at the FMCA RV Rally and are still staying on the fairgrounds a couple extra days free. We did not get to attend many of the Seminars as we got involved in trading our Georgie Boy for a 2006 Gulfstream gas, 36 ft. coach with three slides . For those of you who have seen us living in the GB you know why we needed more space. We would have waited for a couple years and suffered along, but as a friend of ours said that Temptation bug sure came along and bit us! There were many new motorhomes to look at that were way beyond our pocket book, but it was fun to look. However, one salesman would not be discouraged. He came up with a DEAL, showed it to us on the computer and then they brought it over from Connecticut for us to look at.

Now Gary can be using a desk for his drawing, and the computer station is in front of the passenger seat, and I can get busy with scrapbooking, finally. I have not done any yet as it was such a chore to have much out to work with.

While at the Rally we always have two hours of entertainment each evening and the theme was Dixieland Jazz. So three evenings had a different band each evening playing jazz and singing. They were all good. But the best evening was Saturday when Ron and Kay Rivoli entertained us with their humor and music . Kay writes much of her music and they are on the road in their RV much of the time. You can go to www.myspace.com/RivoliRevue and www.Youtube.com/RivoliRevue to hear and see them. Ron plays guitar (note the RV guitar) and sings some while Kay does most of the singing. We saw them first at a large Rally in Louisville, KY in 2004 and were impressed. So we were eager to see them again.

Sunday the Rivoli's also did the Gospel Hour with their Christian music and message.

FMCA had Devotion Hour seminar daily with different speakers each day which was exceptional. We really appreciated it.

Though the Rally was over two days ago, we are still at the fair grounds waiting to get into an RV Center here to get wiring done for our tow dolly. Evidently the previous owner towed with four down and did not need it. So we have spent these two days putting things away in a proper place and shopping for little things that will assist in the process. We have had to use some ingenuity as the storage space inside the coach is not as much or easy to use as it was in the GB. Seems you have to trade off one thing for another, and the living area was more important.

We were so fortunate that the Dealership that sold us the coach gave us one of their workers to assist with the move. He was a gem and we would never have made it with out his help in the time frame we had. They wanted him to leave that same day to take our GB back to Connecticut so that he could be back here at the end of the Rally. He had to help take the new coaches that were on display back to Connecticut.

For the move we were able to park them with doors opposite each other so that helped. While I pulled things out and gave them to Nate to carry out, down steps and back up into the Gulfstream, Gary was busy transferring everything in the basement. All we cared about that night was having a bed clear to sleep . I did manage to give three garbage bags of stuff here at the fairgrounds for a yard sale, so that helped them and us.

Tomorrow we will leave after the wiring is finished and head for the White Mountains in New Hampshire. Stay tuned.