BEGINNING WINTER AT MESA REGAL RESORT

Hello again!!    DROPPED PICTURES IN 10-31-14 !!

Another three weeks have gone by since my last writing, and still no pictures to use.

After reaching our destination of Mesa AZ, we began our new jobs October 7th for the Sales Office in a sister resort down the street.  After two weeks of office work and checking out the park model units that are for sale, as well as hosting five Open Houses with four other workampers assisting us by showing.  Our last she-bang was our boss, Mike's dog day (hotdogs, that is) with a New Model open for show and us as Hosts and set-up/clean-up crew of two. However, after our first week of floundering, we began asking ourselves if we really needed this stress.  We finally decided not and gave Mike our notice.  Hated to do that to him, but I am sure that he will find someone else better suited.

We have only been out sight seeing once since arriving.  Drove over to Globe though the mountains.

Often we see people repelling here.

We had lunch at Judy's Cook House.

Apache Casino stop on way back from Globe AZ
It is the most patron friendly casino that we
have been in for years!

Gary found this in a Wendy's parking lot!!

We spent an afternoon this past week window shopping at the Mall.  But could not afford a sport jacket that Gary needs next week for dinners on a Carnival Cruise we are doing for our 50th Anniversary on October 24th.  Gary surprised me with the confirmation when we went out to Organ Stop for lasagna one evening.  Had a great evening listening to the organ music on that great Wurlitzer!!

We are looking forward to the cruise and hope that it leads to more in the future.  When we first got here, Gary got the flyer advertising it in our mail box.  Surprise and surprise!!  Great price.

We also found all that we needed, including Gary's sport jacket, at a local thrift shop!!  Some awesome buys, and things in great shape. The dry cleaning will cost more than the items did!!  So we can put on the dog as we are supposed to.

Still shopping around for a church to our liking.  One of these Sunday's we will light and stay put. Things have changed in the church we attended two years ago.

It was great connecting with our Salem friends, Bill and Jane, who were already here at Mesa Regal working.   We have played cards with them and they took us out to the South Mountain where you can look out over all of Phoenix.

But we all were disappointed with closed roads.  Seems that they have suffered around here with washed our roads too.  So much more rain than usual this year.

We are looking forward to another couple friends, Bill and Esther, who should get here in mid-November from Salem.  They are going to workamp also.

So we are settling in, and enjoying the weather though high eighties and low nineties. Just one bad day of rain the first day after we arrived.  So hope that is all the heavy stuff.  We are also hoping no more hurricanes to spoil our cruise plans.

Take care and I will keep you posted.