Thursday, November 6, 2014

Arizona, Mesa - Thursday, November 6, 2014 - Val Vista Villages RV Resort


We attended the resort information meeting this morning.  It was sponsored this week by Camping World.  They provided coffee and donuts, plus a lot of raffle prizes.  It was worth getting up early.
We won two tickets to the NASCAR Truck Race tomorrow.  The only downside is that in order to get to the track we have to go back through Phoenix, the traffic is horrible.  I told Greg when we went through the first time that I didn’t want to come back through--that didn’t hold up very long.

We spent the afternoon doing paperwork of one kind or another.  We had to go to the food services office a few blocks away from the resort where we are staying to fill out all of our employment paperwork.  Then when we came home we called the insurance company to get our claim started on the damage done in yesterday’s accident.  We are hoping that we can wait to get the damage repaired until we get back to Indiana in July next year.  We’ll be going to northern Indiana to get the roof fixed anyway and it would just make sense to get it all fixed at one time.
We stopped by the Cactus Grill to talk to the workamper manager and to pick up our work shirts.  We report to work at 10:00 on Monday morning.  We’ll be working all day on Monday getting oriented in everything that goes on.  We will each be working 12 hours per week in exchange for our lot rental and utilities.  We normally have $1,000 a month allocated for those expenses so it will be a nice savings.

A resort representative came by with a welcome gift.  You can tell we are in the southwest, it includes an enchilada soup mix, salsa and jalapeño cheddar popcorn.  Those wine glasses are glass, they don’t know it yet but their lifespan is short with us.
 
 
The weather here during the day was mid-80’s with sunshine.  It is supposed to be like that for the rest of the week, with lows in the mid-60’s at night.  The humidity ranges from 15% to 35%.  I’m going to be going through a lot of lotion or else I’ll look like a prune we are used to humidity well over 55%.

This is our home for the next five months.  From what we have seen of the resort so far it looks like we are really going to enjoy it.
 
 

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