Great Days....exciting night....

Yes, I have been missing in action this past week here in blogland.  The weather has been so very nice here in Bullhead City......just have not spent much time on the old computer.  Yesterday almost the entire park was out and about......walking and gathering, talking and sharing.  I just have to say it one more time.....we are really enjoying this little park!
We did have quite a night a few days ago.  I keep a small lamp next to our bed...on one of those little shelves.  I put the lamp over on the sink vanity at night so I don't accidentally bump it in the night.  Well, Billy needed to retrieve some tums from our medicine cabinet somewhere around 1:30am.  He was trying to be careful and quiet....said the first thing he grabbed was the talcum powder.  When he reached back in for the tums.....there went the lamp.....crashing to the floor with a very loud "bang".  Boy was I ever up and so were the dogs.  Of course the bulb broke, there were fine bits of glass everywhere.  Poor Billy is standing there in his b-day suit ( he sleeps in his b-day suit) looking a little bewildered.  I told him to flip on the overhead light and then I went and got the sweeper.  Once all the glass was vacuumed up, the furballs wanted to go out.  I put on my clothes and took them out.......came back in.....and there is Billy on his hands and knees on the bedroom floor.  I'm like....now what?  It seems he dropped the tums bottle and now there were tums all over the floor.  LOL!  What a sight that was.  Finally....around 3am we all crawled back into bed....What a night and I'm still finding the occasional tum tablet....LOL!

Relaxing in Bullhead City

Have not done anything exciting, just getting to know our surroundings.  We found a Wally World just down the street from us and a nice little mall.  There is also a very nice Safeway here....so guess we won't starve....LOL
The weather here the last few days has been a bit on the windy and cool side.  We even had a little sprinkle of rain the other evening.  It seems a cold front came through, but not to worry temps are still in 60s day and 40's night.  If the wind would just go way things would be fine.  Bullhead City is kinda like living in a "bowl" with the mountains all around you.  So when the wind comes in and "slaps you in the face" it also then turns around and "kicks you in the behind"......I'm ready to be done with that!
Yesterday, I was in a baking mood.  I really do enjoy baking and I love my kitchen in my fiver.  It is just the right size and everything is in easy reach.  Here is the result.......

 Gingersnap cookies fresh from my convection oven.....mmmm, good!  I did have one mishap....my oven is capable of 3 settings....convection, halftime, and microwave.  I use the convection setting for baking and oops on the last batch I forgot to hit the convection button.  It defaults to microwave....after about 3 minutes the aroma of burnt cookies filled the air and I knew what I had done....ah well,  I didn't let a few burnt cookies spoil the day!
And here.....you see what the "men" of the house were up to for most of the day on Sunday.......

Cosmo is quite the lapdog......LOL

We're Here

We arrived here in Bullhead City around 12:30 and boy, oh boy did we luck out.  This place is awesome.....at least we think so......

Here is a photo of our drive on Highway 93......looks pretty nice....and fairly easy........

Oh, isn't that nice......great scenery.....nice, relaxing drive...now we are on Highway 68

Oh, this doesn't look good......11 miles......runaway truck ramps.......the relaxing is OVER!

Ok, I'm really not happy about this.......not at all happy!  I'm grabbing onto my "oh sh-t" handles now and I'm not letting go till we reach the bottom!  Dad, Mom, everybody....I love you all.......Holy Moses.....here we goooooooo.........

Well, needless to say, we made it.  Was it worth it......OH YEAH......take a look.

This is our site....backing in was a little challenging as this is a small rv park, but the manager came out and helped us and we were in and set up in no time.  Those ropes you see are lighted ropes separating each site on each side.....really nice soft lighting for evening.  We have a concrete patio with picnic table and even a little grass for the furballs.  The rest of the site and surrounding area is gravel.  We are able to park the truck right across the way so we have more room on the site itself.

This is the utility side of our site, plenty of room to put up our satellite for internet and our tv dish is at the back.  They do have pretty good cable here, but we are used to our Direct TV.  As to internet, our verizon air card is marginal so we put up our hugesnet.  I just assumed the park internet (tengo) would cost, but I found out this morning that it is free. 

Now, this is the very best part.......this is the view from the patio of the clubhouse...which is just a few steps away from our site.  Yep, that is a fisherman down there and he is catching some trout.

Here is another shot.....the Colorado River....the water is so clear.....and it is so peaceful.  This is going to be a wonderful winter......here at the El Rio Waterfront Resort.

Stay Continued.....

We have enjoyed our stay here at Roper Lake that we extended another 2 nights.  I did manage to get into that spring fed hot tub and had it all to myself......wonderful!  Yesterday we wondered into town and found the local Walmart.  Stocked up on a few groceries and then found a propane fill up station as well.  Next, we found a nice steakhouse.  They had an early bird special 8oz filet with all the fixen's for $10.00 and it was very good and tender.  Neither of us could finish our steak so the furballs had a little "extra" on their supper plate last night!

 Here are some photos of the beautiful sunset here at the park.  The one above was shot right out our doorway.  The one below was shot over the lake. 

We will be leaving this peaceful place tomorrow.  Did a lot of checking and searching for a spot for the winter around the Phoenix area......and just couldn't find the "right" fit for us.  Ended up expanding our search to include Bullhead City and "Bingo" we came across El Rio Waterfront Resort sits right on the Colorado River.  We booked their last spot for the winter!  We plan on stopping in Congress for an overnight at North Ranch Escapees Park near Wickenburg....Love that place!