HAPPY
BIRTHDAY TO OUR DAUGHTER-IN-LAW KIM!!
Our great week
with AJ, Kim and the twins is coming to an end, we will be leaving here
tomorrow morning heading to our site in Markleville, IN (daughter Amanda’s second
driveway) where we will be until mid-September.
Our sight at
Caboose Lake Campground was supposed to be 50 amp full service. We got the bike unloaded and the coach backed
in when we discovered the site they gave us was only 30 amp service. We thought we could get by on that but even
the 30 amp service proved to be sketchy in our sight and several around
us. The same thing happened in this area
of the campground last year, I was hoping they would have taken care of the
problem. I understand the management
doesn’t really think it is a problem.
Several of us had to relocate to sites that had better electric service. This is us in our first site, I didn’t get a
picture of the site where we ended up – I was mildly perturbed.
We have
enjoyed watching Jackson and Braelynn participate in their summer
activities. Braelynn is quite the swimmer. She is racking up a lot of first and second
place ribbons this summer. We got to see
her compete a couple of times.
Here she is
taking off for the 25 meter free-style event.
She won!!
Jackson says
his favorite is baseball. He’s a great
hitter.
We also
stopped in to see one of Jackson’s wrestling practices. He is the one in gray.
The
advantage of this park is that there is a nice lake and an area with floatation
devices where the kids can play. They
especially like the hippo slide which is a 35’ high water slide. This isn’t a good picture, but you get the
idea of how big it is.
AJ, Kim and
the kids came to the campground on Sunday to have lunch with us and then play
on the “family fun zone activities” which included the hippo slide. We read the brochure they gave us at check in
which states the family fun zone is open on Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm.
To get them
in and set up for the fun zone required the payment of $8.00 per person to
enter the campground and a fun zone activities wristband which costs $15.00 per
person regardless of age. (NOTE: Indiana Beach which is about 20 minutes away is
$22 to $27 per person, looks like a much better bargain). We had lunch and then
headed for the hippo slide. We arrived
at the slide at 1:55 p.m. and were told it would be closing at 2:00 – WHAT!!! We were standing in front of this sign which
appears to me to state it is open until 5:00 p.m. on Sunday – same as our
brochure. We were informed by an
extremely rude teenager that if we had a problem we should check with the
office.
The sign on
the porch at the office also states the hippo slide is open Sunday 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. – what are we missing?
What we didn’t
know was that Sunday was an “orange day”.
They have a schedule that is on their website that shows totally
different times than all of the signs they have posted at the campground. The days in orange on this schedule show the
hippo slide being open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
If grandma was po’d about the electricity you should have seen me after
this. I went to speak to the manager and
was informed that she didn’t have time and she had no intention of coming out
to talk to me so she sent out the same obnoxious teenager instead – bad move. I’ve never written a bad campground review,
but I intend to do several on this one, I just have to figure out how to
condense my frustration into a short paragraph.
Jackson and
Braelynn were oblivious to grandma’s frustration and had a good time in the
lake and on the inflatables. However, AJ
and Kim received nothing in return for their $15 wristband fees.
Braelynn
finally decided to take a turn in the dunk tank.
On Monday we
celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary and Kim’s birthday at Aydas,
a wonderful Mexican restaurant in Rensselaer.
Today we had
lunch with Kim’s parents, Dave and Danita Rodibaugh. What a great meal – we even had strawberry
pie for dessert. It’s been hard to
maintain our weight loss with all of this good food we have been invited to
enjoy on our travels back home.
Greg had his
annual checkup Wednesday with his heart doctor and a pacemaker device checkup –
everything looks really good. Both
doctors were impressed with his weight loss and decrease in blood pressure. I love him and this life we are living, got
to keep him healthy.
