April 21st, arrived at Colorado Heights RV Park in Monument, CO.
We still had wind to deal with and in the upper level of the park where we located we had to deal with mud. More spring!!
Upon arriving, the traffic in the south bound lanes of I-25 was pretty well stopped. Looked like maybe an RV wreck over the hillside opposite the RV Park entrance. Sure enough!! I even saw them throw the mattress on top of the pile on the wrecker.
Sunday morning we started out to find a First Baptist Church about sixteen miles away. But going down the road here, just a mile or so, we saw a church with SBC under the name and decided to stop and try it out thinking that it might be a Southern Baptist. Sure enough!! We got into a SS Class that was more to our liking!!! Great teacher!!! And good discussion. We felt like we were with our class in Ohio. And it is a GROWING CHURCH, many, many small children!!
It was great to see that, as so many of the churches that we get into where they put us in a seventies/eighties class and there are very few children. We call those dying churches, unfortunately. And it must by my grey hair and Gary's baldness.
After church we went to Village Inn for dinner and promised ourselves that we had to come back on Wednesday for their free pie day!! Which we did.
Monday was laundry and Walmart day before it began to rain which turned into snow the next afternoon. It was now cold enough that we had to leave water run the next night to TRY to avoid frozen pipes. The park's water pipe that we connected to did freeze.
Gary loved crying to our sons about our weather, so he was always sending them pictures.
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| The next day it snowed a little more!! |
Last evening we went into Colorado Springs to visit Salem Ohio friends. While there Andrew decided that we should go out for dinner, so Village Inn again. We love it!
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| Andrew, Asha and Rekha |
Andrew had to get out the '97 Mustang to give Gary a ride and show how it vroom, vrooms, as Asha says!
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| Andrew & Gary |
How we knew Rekha from Salem was from her time as a teller at Home Savings with me. And we later met Andrew on our first trip through Colorado only to find out that he is brother to our Pastor Pete in Salem. Gary and he have so many things in common, including art and cars to touch the tip of the iceburg! Andrew stopped by the motorhome Friday morning on his way to work, to check out our life style. He has dreams of doing this also when they decide to invest the money and when he can talk Rekha into it.
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| Andrew |
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| Asha and Mom Rekha |
Wednesday was our day for Thrift Stores here in Monument. We found one awesome one where we spent $50 plus. That took care of a couple eye catchers for me, books for Gary @ 50 cents each and a Christmas gift for our daughter-in-law!! We have been looking for Lynn's for a couple months and this was too good of a bargain. I could have bought a couple more things for me, but refrained. We are going to be so-o packed in the motor home for the rest of the trip back to Ohio!! And that will be more than three months!! The problem is that we love looking through the Thrifts!!
The drive up here from New Mexico was awesome even though windy. We just love the scenery.
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| Curvy as usual! |
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| This was an awesome view over a Walmart!! |
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| Now we are beginning to see the higher peaks!! |
Last Saturday Audrey lost her oldest brother, Verlyn. It is a sad time!! But we decided that we are too far from Chicago area to be there for the sons. Boys we love you and miss seeing you!!
Tomorrow morning we will begin again. to our next week's stop in Nebraska.
You all take care and stay warm!!
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