More Trip Highlights!

Did you catch the pun in the title? Here Diane and Joyce are celebrating the successful highlighting of Joyce's hair. Although there was quite a temptation on Diane's part to get even with Joyce for all those younger years when Joyce resentfully had to help Diane with her hair before going to school, she resisted the devil sitting on her shoulder. Maybe it is because she remembered that Joyce would be helping her with her hair sometime in the near future. Tim and Jim got out of Dodge City and headed for the nearest golf course while the girls got to spend some sisterly bonding time.

Another highlight of this trip though, was when Tim and Diane got to go to a Las Vegas style show starring Terry Fator. For those of you who aren't fans of reality shows, Terry Fator was the 2007 winner of the "America's Got Talent" tv show. He is a singing ventriloquist that does amazing impersonations of many singers using his puppets, of which there are many. How he can achieve the song volumes that he does without opening his mouth is beyond us.

He was turned down three times by Las Vegas show clubs that told him his act wasn't good enough. Now he recently signed a 5 year, $100 million contract and has his own showroom at The Mirage. We had planned to go to Las Vegas to see him, but were pleasantly surprised to find out he was doing a show at a local casino before heading to his new gig in LV. The show was phenomenal and we spent the whole 90 minutes laughing uproariously. If you ever get the chance to go and see him, it would be well worth the price of admission.

Tim's brother, John, and his wife, Bear, came for a visit on Super Bowl Sunday. Regrettably, we forgot to get a picture of them on John's Honda Gold Wing motorcycle. It had almost more gadgets than our home on wheels. For comfort it looks like it isn't missing much. I think if you push the right button, it will probably make a sandwich for you.

We enjoyed watching the Super Bowl game with Joyce and Jim and were rooting for the underdog Arizona Cardinals all the way to the bitter end.

The morning after the Super Bowl, we were awakened at 5:00 a.m. by a kind person that was out walking their dog. Once we roused from our sleepiness, Tim answered the door to be told that water was pouring out from under our coach. Dutifully he got clothes on and went out and turned off the water. The morning light finally showed that the plastic plug at the bottom of our water heater had partially disintegrated and let loose. Of course all the water in the heater had run out and the fresh water was simply running through and out on the ground. We have no idea how long it had been running, but there was a lot of water around the coach.

Fortunately, good neighbor Mike came to the rescue once again, and he had the remains of the old plug dug out in minutes. A quick trip to the Home Depot next door to the park for a replacement plug resulted in the entire repair being completed in less than an hour. Tim sure wishes there was some way to miniaturize Mike and keep him in his toolbox.