Thursday, May 24, 2012

Well, it’s been a long time since we’ve updated this blog and it has been a busy winter. We did apply at DisneyWorld for jobs, did get interviewed and did get put on the list. If we were willing to go part time we would have been hired immediately but then we would have been expected to work in July and August when we are in Canada with the kids. Seasonal is more difficult so next time we apply, we will apply first of Sept for Food and Beverage and may stand a better chance. We did enjoy Deer Creek Resort for the winter tho. John and Suz dropping in for a few days after the Tampa RV Show. Skip and Lana dropped in for 2 wks in April. Laura came to stay for a week as did Candy. Dione and her family came for a week. She and Bob stayed at Disney while we had the 4 kids on the coach for a week. It was awesome. Did Legoland. Kids liked it but we did find it is for younger kids. Too young for Ty. Spent time teaching some girls how to do charcoal portraits of their grandchildren. Taught some others how to bead and I learned how to bead with wire. Our Norcold fridge burned end of Feb. but John and some neighbors installed a Samsung residential fridge which is awesome. Met some great folks and established some friends for life. Got our Disney season passes in May before we left as we are returning to Deer Creek in the Fall. We will not re-apply to Disney but will spend the winter touring Florida and using Deer Creek as a home base. Now we are in Red Bay, AL getting our roof rails and wet bays done. John changed the Anode rod on the hot water heater and somehow we ended up with no hot water for 2 days. He went on the tiffinrvnetwork.com with the problem and got a number of responses. One response included a picture of a valve which turned out to be the culprit. The techs were in and out in 15 minutes as that was the first placed they looked. We have been talking about dealing but now I (Sheila) want to enjoy this rv for the next year. Then John can find what he wants. This coach should be perfect when we leave here. There is nothing to do so it gives me time to get cupboards cleaned, purging done and just general catch up on things I have been procrastinating with. Looks like we will be here the long weekend (John has painting touch up they are going to do for him) but will wander over to Tupelo. We are too early to catch the Helen Keller presentation in June but I do enjoy touring Ivy Green. When we leave here we have decided to go straight to Ontario, Canada to surprise the kids early. They have busy summers planned so we will spend as much time with them as possible. Ty and Tate are getting a new lab puppy so we are looking forward to Chiko enjoying playing with him or her. I got a new MacBook Pro in April and had been taking classes at Apple in Florida on how to use. Transferred all my photos from my old pc and numerous backups. Have been organizing in Aperture and reduced the number of photos from 62 thousand to 17 thousand. Lots of multiple copies due to numerous backups over the past 10 years. Also scanning all my old photos from albums onto the laptop. Big project but like this app. Enjoying the mac over the pc. Had purchased a new iPod Touch in January and have been face timing a lot with the kids. Life is still great.