Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

John and I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! See ya next year!!!

Our travel plans for 2008 include; San Felipe Baja Mexico, Cruise to Cabo San Lucas, FMCA Rally in Pomona, CA, where we will be representing Cherry Hill Park in the Marketplace, touring the Atlantic Maritimes, and whatever else we can find that strikes our interest along the way!

Opening day was yesterday. This is the entrance into our lot.


Rows and rows of trees looking for warm homes. We hope each and every tree finds a home!!

This is the inside of our tent and John has been flocking away!!

FAMILY TIME

After pumpkins we headed to Reno to have an early Thanksgiving with my daughter and her boyfriend and his children, my son and his family came up we had a wonderful time together and it had been a long time since we all got together.
Below is Wayne, Jadeon, Stephanie and Cami.



Below is a picture of my son Larry, me, Grandson Jeff, and daughter Stephanie. We had just had a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner. November is a very busy month for our family besides Thanksgiving we have 4 birthdays to celebrate.

Steph and John clowning around with Cosmo the dog (aka Costco)

FROM PUMPKINS TO TREES......

Its over- all the pumpkins have been sold, the petting zoo is closed and now its time to clean up the lot and get it ready for trees. This has been a very interesting month we learned a lot about the zoo animals we have chased the pig when he got out at least 5 times, roped the goat we he escaped, dropped a box of chickens and had to chase them around the pin and finally caught all 10 of them, the rabbits had a night out on the patch until we caught them!!! I wished I had the camera for some our most exciting moments, but I think if I told John to wait so I could take pictures of him chasing the pig- you would all be attending services for ME!!! Anyway it is over and we did survived as did the animals! Next week we are headed to Reno to spend sometime with my daughter, should be back just in time for tree delivery. We are really looking forward to the Christmas season!!!

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!!!


Getting the lot ready for Trees

Petting Zoo at the Pumpkin Patch


Meet Wilbur he is "Some Pig" that is what Charlotte said. Personally I think he is a goat in Pig skin...... Wilbur refuses to eat his pig food wants only the goat food!!! Notice the little chicks in the pen I bring them in every nite because they are too little we put them in a box under a heat lamp.


Meet Mr Goat and Mrs Goat they can't eat the goat food because the pig won't let them, so they eat the pig food and when the pig is sleeping then they eat the goat food, and eat the corn stalks and eat whatever they can find.......

Meet "Farmer" John- he fixes the cages and builds shelter so the animals have a dry place to be when it rains he also is very good with a shovel in the mornings and I feed the animals and make sure they have plenty of water......
Now you have seen the pumpkin patch that Farmer John and his wife Cathy built........

PUMPKIN PATCH

After 7500 miles this summer we are right back where we started in California! We arrived at our pumpkin lot. John is building a pad for the motorhome. Looks like he is having fun on the John Deer!!

Wow now thats a lot of pumpkins 40 bins all over the lot- Now how do you suppose all those pumpkin bins are going to get emptied??


I think the scarecrows did it. There are pumpkins of all colors and sizes



We now open and ready for business... Wish us luck!!!

32nd Annual
Nappanee Apple Festival

First stop on our way west was Nappanee Indiana for some repairs on our Motorhome (again), and we were here just in time for the Apple Festival. Below is a 7 Foot Apple Pie 450 pounds of apples and it took 17 hours to bake. To bring the pie into the restaurant a wall had to be removed!! It took a large oven to bake this pie and there are only 4 of these large oven in the world and Nappanee just happens to have one.

Every festival has marching bands and this town is no exception.

Boomers were in town and we meet and enjoyed the festival together and then had lunch at Hunters Hideway!!

September 11, 2007

As one adventure ends, another one begins........

What a fabulous summer we have had in Maryland. We are leaving Cherry Hill Campground in the morning, its a bittersweet experience. Cherry Hill Campground is a first class campground and we are proud we were part of the team if only for a short while. The folks we have worked with have been a lot of fun, we have seen so many sights and the weather has been fantastic , we have eaten Maryland Blue Crab, and we did extensive research to find the best of the best crabcakes. We have a winner http://www.timbukturestaurant.com/index.html

On to our next adventure.... this fall we have decided to manage a Pumpkin Lot, in Saratoga, CA . We don't know too much about what this will entail, except we do know it involves pumpkins, scarecrows and a petting zoo we all know what animals do !! YIKES!!! Stay Tuned......

I hope that you all had the most fantastic summer!!!!

Clam Bake

Summer is just about over the weather is getting cooler and it is just about time for us to start heading west soon!! We cooked a fabulous seafood dinner tonight and enjoyed every morsel!!!

Williamsburg, VA
Busch Gardens, Europe

This week we headed to Busch Gardens Amusement park it has been a long time since we had been to an amusement park. Great rides, excellent food, high energy shows, and a beautifully clean park we had a ball spent two days inside the park..... We did do the Brewmasters Club, you go into a private room and taste beers -this is not your ordinary beer tasting from about two dozen different brews you pick four to taste (that was a hard one) then you are served crackers, cheese, grapes, strawberrys, and chocolates and the tasting begins, I almost thought I was wine tasting. GREAT experience!!! Actually learned a lot about beer and food pairings.



John the Pizza Head


The Adventure Begins........

The Rides

In Germany the Curse of Dar Kastle, is a 4 D ride, you put on special glasses and are whisked thru a haunted castle great special effects!!!

In Italy Escape from Pompeii, this was my favorite ride. You ride up to the top and go thru fire, crumbling buildings and fianally the big escape splash down. Heart pounding adventure


In Ireland- Corkscrew Hill, this is a 4 D ride simulator, you are greeted by a leprechaun who is going to shrink you and take you on wild adventure you won't soon forget. GREAT special effects.


In France- The Griffon- Not for the faint of heart and NOT FOR ME!!! This roller coaster is tallest dive roller coaster in the WORLD. From 205 feet above you will drop 90 degrees to more flips, turns and just too much adventure for me. Double click on the picture and you can see there is no FLOOR

The Entertainment

From New France (aka Canada)
These are the dancers from the American Jukebox this dance was a tribute to the Disco era
Burn Baby Burn- Disco Inferno


In Ireland in the Abbey Stone Theater Irish dancers what a high energy show!!!

In Italy at the San Marco Outdoor Theater a rendition of Tony and Tina's Wedding.


In Germany inside the Das Festhaus was a re-creation of October Fest complete with all the UMPAs and the Beer Barrel Polka !!

Virginia
Shenandoah National Park

Our campsite at Big Meadow Campground in Shenandoah National Park. Looks like a beautiful day... Well just a few hours after this picture was taken we had the most horrendous lighting and thunder storm I have ever been in. I wanted to leave and run to the bath house for safety, but couldn't because lightning was striking all around us...... This lasted about 2 hours, but, to me, it seemed like a lifetime....... WOW was I missing California weather

Two of the most spectacular views among hundreds. There was a constant haze or fog in the area at all times.

Early morning fog was so thick you could see it move in and out within in seconds you had no visibility to full visibility.

So many yellow daisys so beautiful and tons of monarch butterflys


While on Skyline Drive we happened upon these bears there were three mama, and two cubs as cute as could be up in the trees playing and breaking branches and falling to the ground then climbing back up in the tree. We were about 15 feet from these bears and they were oblivious that we were even there, it wasn't long before a crowd appeared and the little guys just kept on playing.... We were in the car under this tree and the mama bear was above us!!


Deer everywhere.