Yuma, AZ

Castle Dome
Castle Dome
Oh Yeah, check out the Corvette
His and Her Thunderbirds

After coming back to Yuma we went to Castle Dome. Castle Dome is an old mining town that has been rebuilt and it is full of period stuff. I have not seen a collection like this before. It was really interesting.

We were also in town for the Midnight and the Oasis. There were over 900 classic cars in town.

We spent over 2 hours looking at cars and enjoying the beautiful cars.

Andrea's Baby Shower

Mary's daughter makes these and had one sent for the shower, it is made of baby diapers
How many squares of toilet paper does it take to go around moms baby belly

The last day of Feb. I took a shuttle from Yuma to Phoenix to catch a flight home for the weekend. I went home for Andrea's baby shower. Mom and Stacey gave her a really nice shower and I was glad I got to go home and check on her. She is doing really great and we are getting excited for the baby to come.

Yuma, AZ

My tattoo! Herb and Mary Joplin
Jack and I at Texas

Roadhouse for his birthday

The RV park in Yuma, the caretakers had a few animals and the turkeys were so cool.
There were ducks, geese turkeys, roosters and chickens.

We had a really hard time finding a place to stay in Yuma. We later heard that the valley RV parks where 98% full. We did finally find a place, not one I ever would have stopped at if I was just driving by, but it turned out just fine. Someone knew someone staying there and said it was a good place. We ended up staying for a month and met some really nice people. We met up with Herb and Mary Joplin. They were staying at the Yuma Army Proving Ground RV camp. They were there for a week while we were there and we had a really good time with them. Mary and I went shopping, we hit old ladies day (Monday morning) at Bealls Outlet. What a hoot. We got some really good buys and had a blast. We went over to Mexico and out to eat. They went out to dinner with us to celebrate Jack's 60th birthday. After they left we went back to Mexico and got our new eye glasses at 50% the U.S. cost and they were ready in 2 hours. We also picked up some of our meds and a huge discount.

Oh and I got a tattoo! There was a place in town and I saw some the work and I really liked the detail. It is on my ankle and the pic is the day after I got it so it was a little swollen.

Jack's brother Eddie and Sue came for a weekend. They brought their camper and we spent the weekend playing. Sue and I went to Mexico and the flea market. We went out to eat, Eddie likes to try and find authentic Mexican restaurants.

Benson, AZ

Cochise Stronghold
Fort Bowie

San Pedro River

We did get in some hiking and saw several beautiful sunsets. We also met up with my cousin Don again. We went out to his place and really enjoyed seeing his place and hearing about the tranformation he put it through. It is really a great place. We stayed here for about a week then moved on to Yuma AZ

Benson, AZ

On to Benson AZ where we always love to hike. Our car broke down right before we were to leave TX and we were afraid to take it to the shop and not have it ready to go when we were. We ran into problems finding places to stay this year. All the RV parks have been full, due to the

Canadian dollar being strong there are a lot of visitors here from Canada. We pulled our sick car all the way to Benson and dropped it off at the garage. It was still 4 more days until we had the car back. We walked to the Donut Shop in the morning, 3 miles round trip. Sometimes we would then walk 3 miles to lunch. Once we got the car back we went to check out the Lazy J., Jack's 30 acres of desert. Here are a couple of pics I took from the property. You can see snow on the Mtns.

Harlingen TX

We headed back to Harlingen. TX in Jan. and again we had a really good time. We only stayed 3 weeks since we are cutting our winter short this year to get home in time for babies. These are our friends Earl and LaNiece and Dale and Judy. We play pegs and jokers with them and have a blast. We also enjoyed a few great meals at Chiquita's with them.